Alexey Sklyarenko:-rukiy, the second part of the name
Dolgorukiy and
adjective bezrukiy, is present in
sukhorukiy (without the use of one arm; having a
withered arm). Kuz'ma Minin Sukhoruk (? - 1616) was a leader of the national
liberating struggle of Russian people against the Poland-Lithuania invaders, one
of the leaders of the second volunteer corps (1611-1612) and a national hero.
Koz'ma Zakhar'yich Minin Sukhoruk is a play (1861) by A.
Ostrovsky.[...] ... at the picnic on Ada's sixteenth
birthday (1.39), Greg witnesses Van's scuffle with Percy de Prey who tells Ada
that "your cousin has treated Greg and your humble servant
to a most bracing exhibition of Oriental Skrotomoff or whatever the name may
be." Lucette (who watched the scuffle from an
ambush) chants:'He screwed off a
nipple,/He left him a cripple...'
JM: Until Sklyarenko's wrote about an "Oriental
Skrotomoff" and Lucette's chants about nipples and cripples, I hadn't
noticed the malicious designation for that kind of oriental scuffle...(it sound
so genuinely Russian)