Talk:Sokolov Paintings/@comment-31.32.254.38-20140210212354/@comment-16241899-20140501065312

Sokolov is a very common Russian surname. The Russian wikipedia lists hundreds of people named Sokolov. Somehow I doubt they thought of the painter in particular when naming the character. I think it was more thinking of a typical, common, Russian/Slavic sounding name to express his origin from Tyvia.