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HelpRe: Your favourite Russian names
in reply to a message by tegwen22
Does this take place in Russia or America? The only Russian looking name is Vitya (Viktor) Nikolaevich because that is how naming goes in there.
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I'm not good at Russian names as this proves. Well, the people are Russian but the book takes place mainly in England. It's set around the time of the Russian Civil War. Thanks loads. I'll try to get it right.
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There's some info that you can get to from the BtN homepage about names from different countries. Basically, you just add -ovich (evich) to the father's first name for the sons and -ovna (evna) for the daughters. There are a few names with slightly different patronymics. Iliych and Iliyshina for the children of Ilya is the only exception I can think of at the moment. If you look up the names of famous Russians/ Soviets you can get some more examples.
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