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At my Victorian grandmama's knee I was taught that one uses the abbreviation "messrs" (plural of mister) only when addressing two men with the same surname residing at the same address--an admittedly Victorian situation.
And other figures in the Soviet pantheon or nomenclatura were likewise immortalized: Samara became Kuibyshev; Ekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlov; Simbirsk was renamed Ulyanovsk , a derivative of Lenin's original surname; Nizhnii Novgorod was renamed Gorky; and so on across the map of Russia and to a lesser extent of the USSR.
The married woman who takes her husband's family name as a surname yet keeps her own family name as a middle name--Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor--has unwittingly introduced a new form of patronymic, which takes its place alongside the more traditional (Slavic, Scandinavian, Islamic, Hispanic) versions.
The show was created by one of Schell's former pupils, who gave some of its characters the surname of Schell's former assistant.
However, the Schindler not only made shakes, he also built and surfaced the entire roof of a house; so in my opinion, the name really corresponds better with the English surname Tyler.