-ski is a polish name suffix for male surnames (women from the same family would be named Staroselska, but German law struggles with recognizing gendered naming conventions from Slavic languages). A lot of Germans have Polish ancestry. Either because their families migrated to Germany during the industrial revolution or because they moved to Germany after the wall came down.
Wouldn’t you just assume that someone named Staroselski was Russian?
-ski is a polish name suffix for male surnames (women from the same family would be named Staroselska, but German law struggles with recognizing gendered naming conventions from Slavic languages). A lot of Germans have Polish ancestry. Either because their families migrated to Germany during the industrial revolution or because they moved to Germany after the wall came down.
It can be basically any Slav.