Patronymics

[Elena Gapova]

Anna Malakhovskaya, a dissident feminist and a founder of the feminist
journal "Maria" (started in Leningrad in 1979), now writes herself as Anna
Natalia Malakhovskaya, using her mother's name as a "matronimic".

e.g.

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> on a related interesting  note, I know a Russian girl who changed her
> patronymic as a sort of "divorce" or "slap in the face" to her father ...
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