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Sergei Rogovtcev
Sergei Rogovtcev asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

You've said already that "Vor is is an aristocratic prefix"; and there's a plenty of places where it gets lost (like ImpMil academy: "Kosigan, Kostolic"). But there's one name that always stroke me odd: Vorobyev, which sounds like a normal Russian family name (from "Vorobey", meaning "Sparrow"). Is it supposed to be "unprefixed" to? Or is it actually a non-Vor-name?

Lois McMaster Bujold "Vorobyev" is of course a real Russian name. When I ran across it, I immediately snitched it for a character. I like to fancy the clan was absorbed into the nascent Barrayaran aristocracy due to linguistic confusion.

Ta, L.
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