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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

According to: https://www.macalester.edu/~hammarbe.../Whoiswho.html

It may just be multiple last names and same person:

I am not familiar with naming convention, but looking through that list makes it appear that the one last name "Sergeevich" is in a spot that refers to one's ancestors family.

Originally Posted by Lady Stardust

Yes, as Tigger says, it is the same person. Sergeevich is patronymic (his father is Sergey) and family name is Kuragin.

Thanks to you both.

This is turning out to be even more complicated than I thought.

I had planned to eliminate entity 92 and its description and change all references of 92 to 90 and change the label for 90 to "Prince Vasili" which would match both. But for entity 92 the first "i" in Vasili isn't an ASCII "i" but an UTF character where the dot is an accent mark. (Please don't flame me on terminology, my cultural written language is 7 bit ASCII.) Also for entity 92, the "a" in Kuragin has an accent mark. It also turns out that there is an entity 708 "Prince Vasili Kuragin" (All 7 bit ASCII).

I don't know whether it is possible to make the XRAY.entities file correct and consistent without changing the text of the book. I guess that I will stick to fixing mistaken identities in XRAY.entities files, there are certainly plenty of them.