Litvin
Speech parts
1. Litvin - Noun
2. Litvin - Proper noun
Meaning
Litvin (plural Litvins)
(countable) Litvin
Litvin (plural Litvins)
A surname from Russian.
Examples
Alter Litvin, Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia, (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 49-50.
Ancestry render Dostoyevsky's parents were part of a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational Ruthenian Litvin noble family from the Pinsk region, with roots dating to the 16th century.
Litvin, Writing History, 47. As Stephen Kotkin argues, 1991 prompted "a return to political history and the apparent resurrection of totalitarianism, the interpretive view that, in different ways…revisionists sought to bury".
Nikolai Litvin, a Soviet anti-tank gunner present at the battle of Kursk, recalls his experience during the special training to overcome tank phobia.
Litvin reportedly staged the protest after his car suffered from a number of problems, which he claims his local Mercedes dealer refused to fix.