Ustinov
I can't remember if I've asked this before, but prior to seeing an episode of Pointless in which a question in the final was to name any movies starring Peter Ustinov, I was sure I'd heard him from somewhere before. But then when Richard said "Everything apart from... was pointless, so well done if you got one.", it didn't help as I hadn't heard of the movies he said that scored points.I can't see the surname on the U page, but is Ustinov a Polish surname like Chekov? If not, then what does it mean?
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Ustinov is a Russian surname used by men who descended from a Justin. (Some Justins were saints.)
https://www.behindthename.com/name/ustin/submitted

This message was edited 9/19/2022, 5:09 PM

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Ustinov, like Chekhov, is Russian, not Polish.
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