concept
Article 119
also: 119 статья
A provision of the Russian penal code of the period, reached for reflexively by Poluekhtov, a justice of the peace, as if he might sentence a stage villain in his own court.
Reading notes
- On Drama §27 Article 119
A provision of the Russian penal code of the period (as a justice of the peace, Poluekhtov reaches reflexively for a statute number); the joke is that he would sentence a stage villain as if trying a real criminal in his own court.