Comments for ALYOSHA:

Actually, the pet form of Aleksei is Alyosha, not Alyusha. There is no Russian name Alyusha at all. I know because I am Russian. [noted -ed]

-- jak36  12/5/2004

The correct Russian pronunciation (and spelling) is Alyosha (the LYO sounds like the LE in LEARN). You will not find any Alyushas in Russia. [noted -ed]

-- Alexei  1/24/2005

A foremost character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov."

-- Anonymous User  6/29/2007

To clarify: the LYO does NOT sound like the LE in LEARN. It sounds like how it's spelled. Pronounce YO as if you were a New Yorker saying New YOrk; the vowel [o] is actually more like the [ɔ] vowel sound.

-- lyosha  5/3/2008

This is the name of the main character in Leo Tolstoy's "Alyosha the Pot".

-- lcgirl20  3/8/2009

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