Why is my name different in Russia?

[grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz]

Rejecting your patronymic is a disrespect to your father. I am still Mikhaylovich even in my american passport

[ViperIsStupid]

Any time I hear the combination of Anastasia and Russia, I immediately think of the show Anastasia

[HenriBourkel]

For our American audience, here are two examples:
1. Michail Borissovitch Vladimirov, translated literally Michael Son-of-Boris Vladimirov
2. Natalya Borissovna Vladimirova, translated literally Natalie Daughter-of-Boris Vladimirov.

[Engineer]

Thats exactly what a russian spy would say...

[dreamsfloatjoe]

Thank you very much Mrs. Anastasia Moore!

[ВикторФирсов-еф]

Nobody uses Nastya with a patronymic, it’s either Nastya or Anastasia Olegovna

[taemck]

My name is Maria, so I have about 20 variants of my name:
Masha
Manyasha
Manya
Marussya
Mashka
Masya
Masyanya

and other... 😂

[ladymacbethofmtensk]

Russians have other names too, for every level of intimacy, which is why the novels of Dostoyevsky can be hard for English speakers to follow.

[markheithaus]

Nastya is a diminutive of Anastasia. Americans also have diminutives for many names.

[ВладиславФетисов-ъй]

Иоанн Грозный за свою жестокость прозванный "Васильевич".

[lettysharp]

As someone adopted from Russia, this is really interesting to me. I was adopted at 9 months so I had no idea about any of this!

[indrarajratnasabapathy]

Anastacia is a beautiful name... not to put down your given name ... love you guys all the same 😂

[CesarGarcia-ndxz]

Nastya Petrova sounds like a great female name

[critrck]

И зачем вот я это посмотрел? Спасибо, теперь я знаю, что я и Митяй и Дмитрий

[josephwebster]

That picture of her in her military uni looking at the ground smiling lives rent free in my head.

[beautyfollower]

In Greece too, we dont have middle name. Also have a short versions of our name. Like Nastya or Tasia or Tasa or Stasa for Anastasia. Dinos or Kostas or Kostis for Konstantinos.

[AnnaOk]

Петрова Настя Олеговна 😂😂😂😂
Может Анастасия все-таки?

[jam]

Guys, as a Russian, she isn't spy. We don't need spies in the US anymore, because since tomorrow we will have our main agent Donald Trump in White House😂

[sebastiannguyen]

That is such a beautiful and perfect name

[PrasadSankpal]

Ya... reading the russian literature as an indian is really confusing due to the naming style...but now it'll be easier😂