Patronymics

[Alina Israeli]

>Mother chooses the patronymic, i. e., says she wants her to son be, let's
>say, Sergei Vladimirovich. She does not have to provide details on who that
>Vladimir is.

Or sometimes a grand-father's name is used. In the olden days when
children out of wedlock were stigmatised, and they had a dash
(procherk) on the line referring to the father (and then they were
called "besotcovshchina"), occasionally grand-father's adopted their
own grand-children to give them a legal father for the documents.
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Mass. Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016

phone:  (202) 885-2387
fax:    (202) 885-1076

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