Yermolay
# Yermolay

Yermolay (Russian: Ермолай) is a Russian given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.

## Derivation

Yermolay is derived from the Greek Hermolaos, meaning "the people of Hermes".

It is the basis of the surnames Yermolayev and Yermoshin.

## Notable Yermolays

People with the given name Yermolay include:

* Ermolai-Erazm, 16th-century Russian churchman
* Yermolay Yermolayevich Hamper (Gamper), 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars
* Yermolay Dementievich Kamezhenkov, 1760–1818, Russian artist
* Yermolay Fyodorovich Kern, 1773–1841, Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
* Yermolai Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn, born 1970, son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translator/annotator of his works

## Fictional Yermolays

* Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a character in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
* "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife", a story from Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches
* Yermolay, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade.
