Russian Classes: How Russian names mutate - Fyodor

Pavel Kuzmichev, Public domain

Dostoyevsky's full name (we use it for formal situations) consists of the first name and patronymic, spelled the following way: Фёдор Михайлович.

And if Fyodor is himself the father, his son's patronymic would be Fyodorovich, and his daughter would be Fyodorovna.

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