You are wrong: Luzhin in Dostoevsky comes from luzha, "puddle."
 
Btw., Volgin is also the hero in Chernyshevsky's Prologue (see Nabokov's The Gift). 
 
Also, I forgot to mention that d'Onsky, the name of a character in ADA, Demon Veen's rival, comes from Don, the river flowing from the Tula province in central Russia to the sea of Azov. Cf. Onegin's donskoy zherebets, a Don stallion, in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (Chapter Two, V, 4).
 
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