ABSTRACT
Feminine last names ending in -ова, -ева or -ина are declined as follows: nom. Каренина, acc. Каренину, gen., dat., inst., prep. Карениной.
Last names ending in -ий or -ой are declined like adjectives:
книга о Толстом ‘a book about Tolstoy’ статья о Татьяне Толстой ‘an article about Tatyana Tolstaya’ романы Достоевского ‘the novels of Dostoevsky’
Exercise 5 In the Soviet period, many streets were renamed after revered figures according to the pattern ‘Улица + last name in genitive case’:
Улица Горького ‘Gorky Street’
Many such names have since reverted to their pre-1917 forms. Complete the following sentences, which include examples of these name changes, by putting the words in brackets in the appropriate case.
