User blog comment:NibiruMul/NibiruMul's Naming Advice/@comment-27950523-20160514160515/@comment-4598697-20160514173021

Thanks!

I noticed I used Russia for many of the examples since Russian is often one of the most improperly researched languages when it comes to naming characters in fiction. Way too often, people get so much of it wrong, such as using the English or French forms of the names instead of the Russian forms (i.e. Peter, Michael, Anatole, Natalie, and Elizabeth instead of Pyotr, Michael, Anatoly, Natalya, and Yelizaveta), applying the masculine name Nikita to female characters, having Russian women with names that end in -ov, -ev, -in, or -sky instead of -ova, -eva, -ina, or -skaya, treating diminutives as given names, only using names borne by famous Soviets instead of researching Russian surnames, or flat-out making up names. Then again, I come from a country that still associates Russia with the Soviet Union.