Patronymics

[Christopher Tessone]

Presumably they took Feodorovna (Feodor means 'gift of God') for the
same reason Boris Godunov took Feodorovich as his patronymic--their
fathers were not tsars/emperors, so they took a patronymic that pointed
to their own divinely-instituted office.

Chris

On Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 12:05  PM, Giampaolo Gandolfo wrote:

>     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

--
Christopher A. Tessone, OBK
http://www.polyglut.net/

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