concept
Izvozchik
cabman
also: извозчик
A hired horse-drawn cab-driver plying the streets of a Russian city for fares, the standard private transport of the period for those with money to spare, as against walking or the cheaper horse-tram.
Reading notes
- A Lost Cause §34 hiring a cab
An izvozchik, a hired horse-drawn cab-driver plying the streets for fares -- the standard private transport of the period for those with money to spare, as opposed to walking or the horse-tram.
- Joy §25 cabman
An izvozchik, a horse-cab driver hired by the ride -- the ordinary Moscow street trade whose horse startles and knocks Mitya down.
- Misery §3 Извозчик
Iona is an izvozchik, a hired horse-cab driver, one of the lowest and most exposed trades of the St. Petersburg streets -- typically a peasant working the city seasonally or after being displaced from the land, spending long hours outdoors in all weather waiting for fares.
- The Problem §14 cabman
An izvozchik, a hired horse-drawn cab-driver, the standard paid transport of the period for a family unwilling or unable to walk home late at night.