Russian Fantasy Name Generator

A bogatyr is the knight-errant of Russian epic poetry (the byliny): a hero of immense strength who serves Prince Vladimir of Kiev and defends the land against dragons, Tatar hosts and monsters. The three most famous are Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich. A female equivalent, a polyanitsa, also appears in the byliny, usually as a warrior-maiden who fights the hero to a standstill.

Take the father's first name and add -ovich or -evich for a son and -ovna or -evna for a daughter (after a name ending in -a, use -ich and -ichna: Ilya gives Ilyich and Ilyinichna). Nikitich literally means son of Nikita. Patronymics are used with the given name as a respectful form of address, so a character addressed as Radomir Glebovich is being treated as a grown man of some standing.

No. Leigh Bardugo's Ravka uses Russian-inspired naming, but all the names here are either from genuine Russian folklore (Koschei, Vasilisa, Sadko) or invented from Russian word roots, so they are free to use in your own fiction or games. The Grishaverse generator linked above covers that specific setting.

Russian favors the endings -ov, -ev, -in and -sky on surnames, the -ovich/-ovna patronymic, and diminutives in -ushka, -enka and -ochka. Polish leans toward -ski and -wicz, Czech toward -ek and -ová, Serbian toward -ić. Spelling also matters: Yevgeny, Fyodor and Zhuravlyov follow Russian transliteration conventions, while Eugeniusz and Teodor would read as Polish.