chinovnik

No matter how much money there is to be made in Russia these days, it ultimately doesn't count for much the day a boyar or simple chinovnik decides to take it away.

Russia's Crony Statism 2008

I assure you that I have never at any time allowed the chinovnik whom you mention to enter my house -- either masquerading or as himself.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

One day a chinovnik brought us an advertisement as you have done.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

The nose's sudden disappearance, its subsequent gaddings about, its masqueradings as, firstly, a chinovnik and, secondly, itself -- all these have come of witchcraft practised either by you or by adepts in pursuits of a refinement equal to your own.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Already it had entered a stage-coach, and was about to leave for Riga with a passport made out in the name of a certain chinovnik.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Russian chinovnik, the Russian spy and the Russian gloom, who have been a shadow of the Slavic race.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

Here you will meet the most selfish chinovnik, the most fanatic desperado or reckless bureaucrat; there you face the noblest men and women, supermen, physically and mentally.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

Nevertheless every youth aspired to be a chinovnik, because then you could retire early with

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

Therefore a herdsman should be paid more than a chinovnik (official).

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

This was natural in the initial stage of the Revolution, when class lines had not had time to reveal themselves, when the aspirations of the so-called united revolutionary front found expression in the diffuse program of a party that was ready to welcome equally the workingman who feared to break away from the peasant; the peasant who was seeking land and liberty; the intellectual attempting to guide both of them; the chinovnik (officeholder) endeavoring to adjust himself to the new regime.

From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909