concept
Kaznacheystvo (treasury office)
treasury
also: казначейство
The local treasury office, invoked here as a plausible errand used to send the porter Makar out of the way while the clerks plot their mutiny.
Reading notes
- The Deputy, or the Tale of How Desdemonov Lost 25 Roubles §3 the treasury
The kaznacheystvo, the local treasury office, is invoked here as a plausible errand used to get the porter out of the way while the clerks plot -- a small bureaucratic detail standing in for real conspiracy.
Mentioned in 22 works (67 mentions)
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
The Deputy, or the Tale of How Desdemonov Lost 25 Roubles
The Willow
The Captain's Uniform
A Drunk Man's Conversation with a Sober Devil
Ladies
My Conversation with the Postmaster
The Leading Man
To Al. P. Chekhov, 6 April 1886. Moscow.
To N. A. Leikin, 15 November 1887. Moscow.
Happiness
Gusev
The Wife
To A. S. Suvorin, 20 November 1889. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 23 February 1890. Moscow.
To A. F. Koni, 26 January 1891. Petersburg.
Notebooks. Diaries
Anna on the Neck
My Life: A Provincial's Story
Sakhalin Island
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