Invitation Cards from the Allied Commision in Finland

[Aleksander P]

I agree, especially the avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s.

Hear, hear!

[Dimas]

Savonenkov seems like Finnish lastname, update to russian in the Imperial time, or early Soviet stages, converted from Savonen with added "kov"

[Aleksander P]

Savonenkov seems like Finnish lastname, update to russian in the Imperial time, or early Soviet stages, converted from Savonen with added "kov"

You are right on that Dimas. Savonen is a Finnish last name and this was a common procedure to do back then. I did some research on him and it seems that he was Karelian, so most likely with a part of Finno-Ugric and Russian ancestors.