TSARNAEV

The trial for the surviving Boston bomber, Tsarnaev, will be coming up soon.  I have puzzled a great deal over his name.  Curiously, no one has mentioned it.  What does it mean?

The root of the name is Tsar.  The Tsar of Russia?  The wife of the Tsar is called the Tsarina or the Tsaritsa.  The son of the Tsar is called the Tsarevitch.  The daughter of the Tsar is called the Tsarevna.  Tsarevna is almost identical to Tsarnaev.  The "na" is simply moved from the end of the word, following "ev"  to preceding "ev."  This changes the name from feminine to masculine.  Did a daughter of the Tsar, two hundred years ago, marry a Chechen Chieftain?  Did he then take the name Tsarnaev, "the husband of the daughter of the Tsar"?   Daughters of royalty were often married off to promote harmony among nations.  The Russians have been fighting the Chechens for centuries.  Tolstoy wrote a novel about fighting the Chechens, Hadji Murat.  More than a hundred years before that Alexander Pushkin wrote a story about fighting the Chechens, Bela. 

The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their five children were murdered by the Communists in July of 1918.  So it would have had to be more than a hundred years ago that such a marriage would have taken place.  I find the name very interesting and curious.