29 Jul Gnoyensky
Gnoyensky is a surname unique to my maternal grandfather’s family. The family lore attributes its adoption to a rift in a Dunayevsky clan momentous enough to push the aggrieved, or aggrieving, side to the ultimate breakup. The name Dunayevsky originated from Dunayevtsy, a town located about 250 miles south-west of Korsun, where the Gnoyenskys lived. Both towns were in the part of the Russian Empire that is now Ukraine.
The Slavic ending of these surnames proves that the drama took place after the family had firmly settled in the Russian Empire. The first Gnoyensky, the son of an unknown Dunayevsky couple, was listed in the Russian census as born in 1768.
For the origin of the adopted surname, see Gnoien.
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