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Subject: Read this instead...
Author: Caprice   (Authenticated as Caprice)
Date: September 24, 2004 at 5:53:28 AM
Reply to: Russian middle names... by Anthony
As far as I know, it works something like this:
-ov for men (as in Feodorov) is -ovna for women (Feodorovna)
-vich for men (as in Popovich) is -va for women (Popova)
-skij for men (Sergievskij) is -skaja for women (Sergievskaja)

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