Heh! I don't think he is actually - he's from Russia, iirc, and we'll find out later that he picked Chelm because he was a servant there and knows the area. (And I'm pretty sure the author picked Chelm because it's on the eastern border of modern Poland, right near the Belarus/Ukraine border, which makes Evil Dude's story about being in Russia and swinging through the Ukraine on the way home a bit more credible.)

It's kind of an amusing thought, though. :D

(I think I'll be reading some Chelm stories later in this project, actually; there are three different short-story books by Isaac Bashevis Singer on the list.)