concept
Hamburg Lottery
Hamburg lottery
also: гамбургская лотерея
A real, well-known 19th-century German state lottery whose tickets were sold across Europe including Russia; Tarantulov's demand that the Society annually spend 25,000 rubles of its budget on Hamburg lottery tickets is one of his absurd grievance-list items, satirizing get-rich-quick schemes dressed up as institutional policy.
Reading notes
- A Sudden Horse's Death, or the Magnanimity of the Russian People! §29 25 тыс. из годового бюджета Общества ... на покупку билетов гамбургской лотереи
Tarantulov's demand that the Society spend 25,000 rubles annually on Hamburg lottery tickets, with winnings split evenly among all members, is one item in an absurd list of grievances -- a jab at get-rich-quick schemes proposed as serious institutional policy by a self-important minor figure.