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Re: A perfect day for introducing myself

From:Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
Date:Thursday, January 27, 2000, 22:33
Andrew Smith (Andrei Kuznetsov) pisal:

>Don't we get to call you Vasiliy Yevgenyevich if we want to be on first >name terms, a slightly different naming system to English where >patronymics are not commonly used. I once worked out that my 'Russian' >name would be Andrei Ivanovich Kuznetzov (spelling subject to >correction).
Determining what my Russian name is is complicated by the fact that my father and I both go by our middle names. So should I base my Russian given name and patronymic on our first names or our middle names? If they were based on our middle names, I would be Mattvei Stepanovich Petrov. If they were based on first names, I would be Yul Ivanovich Petrov. Matt.