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Apr 14Liked by Dmitriy Kalyagin

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Apr 14·edited Apr 14Liked by Dmitriy Kalyagin

Thank you for all this -- especially the second part (St. John the Russian, etc.) -- and all your podcasts. Just two technical "questions": 1) In introductory text, you put "Caucuses" [sic]. Probably this should be _Caucasus_? 2) I see _Kalyagin_ in print, but I hear Conrad say *Kalyugin.* I have seen both family names in print, and have heard both. I think Kalyagin is a little more common than Kalyugin. Which is it?

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Thank you for spotting the typo John, we will make sure to fix it shortly. People noticing these things is always helpful.

Kalyagin isn’t the easiest family name to pronounce, the ‘ya’ is essentially absent from the English language, in Russian it is Калягин. My ancestors were living & working in Astrakhan & Kostroma in the 1800s, so quite far from Moscow Oblast’s Kaluga (Калуга), so I personally do not think that town inspired it’s origins.

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