concept
Kabatchik (tavern-keeper)
tavern-keeper
also: кабатчик, kabak-keeper
A kabatchik ran a kabak, a low tavern or drink-shop typically leased from a landowner or licensed under the state liquor monopoly -- a stock figure of shrewd, upwardly mobile peasant enterprise in Chekhov's early sketches.
Reading notes
- The Virtuous Tavern-Keeper §9 tavern-keeper
A kabatchik ran a kabak, a low tavern or drink-shop, typically leased from the local landowner or licensed by the state monopoly -- a stock figure of shrewd, upwardly mobile peasant enterprise in Chekhov's early sketches.