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Prozorov

family name (Прозоров)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ4380147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prozorov (masculine) or Prozorova (feminine) is a Russian surname (Russian: Прозоров) and may refer to:

Leonid Polonsky (1833–1913), Russian author and publisher who used the moniker Prozorov

Mikhail Prozorov, architect who designed many buildings in Vilnius, including Alexander Nevsky Church

Nikolai Prozorov, executed priest canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1981; see August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Olga, Marina, Irina, and Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov, three sisters and their brother in Chekhov's 1901 play Three Sisters

Tatiana Prozorova (b.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Prozorov” is family name (Прозоров). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Prozorov, family and name, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1833, 1913, 1981, 1901—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Prozorov, family and name is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “family name (Прозоров)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4380147. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1833, 1913, 1981 and 1901.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prozorov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.