Patronymics

[Giampaolo Gandolfo]

    Mine is not an answer, but, if I may, another related question: why all
patronimics of empresses (all of foreign origin and converted to orthodoxy)
are Fyodorovna? Certainly their fathers were not all Fyodor!
    Thank you for the attention you will give my inquiry.
                        Giampaolo Gandolfo

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> Dear SEELANGERs,
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> A question about patronymics:  What happens if there is no father in the
> picture?
>
> --C.
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