Patronymics

[Kris Groberg]

Alina Israeli wrote:

> >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.

What about infants dropped off at orphanages? Named by staff, I suppose?

--
Kris

Kristi A. Groberg, Ph.D.
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