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I can't let you go away without a consolation prize. There must be other names with the charm of Rasputina that doesn't carry the same bizarre baggage. How about:

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Praskovia ("pras-KO-vee-uh")(nn Coco?)(see: Praskoviya)
Vasilisa
Zinaida
Ruxandra / Roxelana ("rook-SAHN-druh," with "rook-" rhyming with book / took / look)(nn Ruxy?)
Valentina
Eudoxia (if only a Doxy wasn't an old slang term for a prostitute . . . )
Zinovia / Zenobia
Bathsheba
Salvatrice
Erzsebet
Casimira / Kazimira (nn Caz / Kaz, Mira?)
Rusalka ("roo-SAHL-kuh")(Russian folk heroine)
Zephyrine
Mileva ("MEE-lay-vuh," or "mee-LAY-vuh")(Einstein's 1st wife was named Mileva)
Pavlina
Jadwiga
Edelmira
Zvonimira
Vesna
Shulamith
Hepzibah
Mehetabel

This message was edited 8/22/2011, 11:12 AM