0_equals_true wrote:
Looks like it is Russian name. namesakes include a monk canonised by the Russian Orthodox church. No reference to Jewish.
Um, I looked it up and I can tell you it is
Not a Russian surname. Russian surnames have the following endings:
-ov
-ev
-in
-sky
-vitch(meaning
son(of))
But surnames with the -"ich" ending are south slavic.