polina

This name is a short form of Apollinariya or Apollinarija and a variant form of Paulina and Polina. It is of Latin and Greek origin and comes from the following roots: (PAULUS) and (APÓLLŌNIA). Apollinaria Suslova (Russian: Аполлина́рия Су́слова; 1839–1918), commonly known as Polina Suslova (Поли́на Су́слова), was a Russian short story writer, who is perhaps best known as a mistress of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wife of Vasily Rozanov and a sister of Russia's first female physician Nadezhda Suslova.