she is known under a great variety of names. her first name is often given as salomea, salome, or salomėja. in her memoir, she referred to herself as salomea, but she signed the dedication as regina. her maiden name is rendered as rusiecki, rusiecka, ruseckaitė, rusieckich. halpir or halpirowa is her married name from the first marriage. her name from the second marriage is rendered as pilstein, pilsztyn, pilsztynowa, pilštyniova, or pichelstein. even after bitter divorce from her second husband she continued to use his last name, perhaps because it sounded more noble. in the dedication of her memoir she used the fourth surname – makowska. it has been suggested that it is the surname of her third husband, but the origin of that surname remains unknown.