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Or with Ivan Ilyich from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Tolstoy [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The

• bloak 3y ago
  That's the one I was more familiar with. (Is it the same name in some sense? On the one hand it rather looks like two different transcriptions of the same name; on the other hand Illich's father wasn't Russian and the names seem to be written differently in the Russian Wikipedia: Иллич, Ильич.)
  • tazjin 3y ago
    Ильич is a patronym (son of Ilya). Lenin's father's first name was Ilya. It's not clear whether Иллич (pronounced differently) is related, apparently it's used as a given name in some countries, or it might be an unrelated surname, or it might be a misspelling/mistranscription of the Russian patronym. Who knows!