Thread: Famous names once and for all

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

(but Макги was the Cyrillicized spelling used on my visa).

did you have a say how your name should be transliterated into Russian on your Visa?

Originally Posted by LXNDR

did you have a say how your name should be transliterated into Russian on your Visa?

I don't think it is possible

Originally Posted by LXNDR

did you have a say how your name should be transliterated into Russian on your Visa?

This came up in another thread... Apparently all Russians nowadays are forced to transliterate their names in the English style.

That's a pity, because the Russian names look much more stylish and interested when they are transliterated in the French or German style. Not sure exactly why.... perhaps because of all the glamorous people who fled the Russian revolution who still have surnames that are transliterated in this way.

But it's funny how the same Russian name can look and feel SO different depending on how it is transliterated.

It would be much more interesting for Russian people if they had a choice in this matter, I think.