Hello Carol!

21 Jun 03 12:30, you wrote to Alex Polevoy:

 CS> It varies though across Russia.  Anatoli for example comes from an
 CS> area where surnames have only been in fashion for the past 2
 CS> generations at best.  Thats why he has 2 'last names'.  One from the
 CS> area he comes from, and one from a respected elder.  I forget which is
 CS> which but they are Gulidov and Tung and he uses them somewhat
 CS> interchangably according to some cultural rules his area follows.

  The  2  last names (surnames)  is used when the married  man or woman
don't want to  change  their surnames,  so then both of them will use 2
surnames.    As   example,    "Novikova"   and  
"Priboy"   will   use:
man --"Novikov-Priboy",  woman "Novikova-Priboy".  And 
it  comes  with
their own first and middle names,  ex. "Anna  Ivanovna Novikova-Priboy".

                                                                  Ilya

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