Patronymics

[Gust Olson]

Not quite all of them:

Elizaveta Alekseevna (Princess of Baden), Empress to Aleksandr I

Mariia Aleksandrovna (Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt), Empress to Aleksandr II

Oh, and Ekaterina Alekseevna (aka "Velikaia), Empress for a while to Peter III.

Gust Olson

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Tessone <tessone at POLYGLUT.NET>
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Patronymics

> 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
> pointedto 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
>
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