Quote Originally Posted by vovanmix
Russian names... Many of them are fantasy of developer!
Chort, Bolda - it is russian abusive words, and they were abusive all the times!
Iosif - jewish name, russian medieval commanders can't be jews
Kuritsa,Drozd,Shchuka,Zaiats,Kozel - it is names of animals, birds and fish! I never heard such names in history and in present! Where did heard them developers in Australia? In the voice of Pacific?
Orekh (nut),Shuba (fur coat),Zub (tooth) - the same, i laughed!

I understand surnames with this words, but Names! Are there really so few normal russian names?

It's interesting, how many knows about russia those who write this? As a land of white bears?
In fact, these are street nicknames and they are real (otherwise there were no so many Boldins,Kuritsins,Drozdovs,Zaitsevs Kozlovs, Orekhovs etc. in Russia), but,of course, they are not proper names. Iosif is a sound Christian name, mostly used by priests (Iosif Volotskiy, for exemple). The problem with russian names in game that in XI-XIII ceturies they were Pagan, but since XIV they become exclusively Greek Orthodox.