> I know in Russian they have the 'son of/daughter of' thing, so if your
> father's name is Michael then your last name could be "Mikailovitch"
> or if your father was 'John' then you'd be "Ivanovitch".

IIRC Russians usally just use the patronymics for middle names though.

So Ivan Ptrov's son Mikhail would be Mikhail Ivanovitch Petrov,
Mikhail's son Peter would Peter Mikhailovitch Petrov, and so on.


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