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Ask the mother. :D

AFAIK normally in this case baby is given the patrynomic on the choice of the mother. And the surname of the mother of course.

Your "middle" names in Russian formalism are just a part of name. A name may consist of as many words as one likes. To have a patronymic you should go ask your father what is his first name and add...

It is the same. "Емельян".

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It is possible but rare (in Russian). It is more often in Polish and very often in Belorussian.



If you mean zar Ivan IV the Terrible then Vasilyevich is his patrinomic. His "last name" is...

Now surnames with "-vich" are widespread in Belorussia and less in Poland. In Russia they are few but they are. Yet usually surname with "-vich" does not sounds like Patrynomic name (PN). Even if it...

In fact, originally "Aleksandrovich" and "Aleksandrov" means the same (the father's name is Aleksandr) but the former way is just more respectable. "Aleksandrov" is a genitive case of "Aleksandr"...

Oops! Indeed... So, where this strange "-sky" came from?

AFAIK, contemporary official letter-by-letter cyr-lat transliteration (which is particularly used to produce Russian foreign passports) requires -skij/-skaja (mus/fem).

-sky/-ska became a kind of...