An example of a brazen twisting of history. Someone once said that the Polovtsi are Turkic, and everyone repeats it without thinking. The Georgian king David the Builder, as is known, took as his wife the daughter of the Polovets (Kuman-Kipchak) king Atrak. Her name was Gurandukht. In one of my earlier articles, I put forward a hypothesis about the Iranian, not Turkic, origin of the Polovtsi.
And now, the Wikipedia article about David's family, with a reference to Stephen Rapp's book "Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past", tells us that "Gurandukht" is a common Persian name, and we do not know her Turkic name. Even in the face of clear evidence, people stubbornly cling to the version of the Turkic origin of the Polovtsi, invented by no one knows who and for no one knows why.
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