Re: A perfect day for introducing myself

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.