chinovnik

(tʃɪˈnɒvnɪk)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government

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In Khvoshchinskaia's town, the political exile warned the up-and-coming chinovnik: "It's eleven o'clock, and the dogs are being let out all over; if Your Honor stays much longer they'll tear your coattails off and perhaps even get at your legs." See Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, The Boarding-School Girl, trans.

Hunting for dogs in 17th-Century Muscovy

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