concept
Merchant guild rank (first guild)
first-guild merchant
also: купец первой гильдии, first guild
The highest of Imperial Russia's three merchant guild ranks, reserved for the wealthiest traders and carrying the greatest trading privileges and social prestige; Kostyukov invokes his first-guild standing to claim superiority over the carpenter Yelizarov.
Reading notes
- In the Ravine §142 a merchant of the first guild
The highest of Imperial Russia's three merchant guild ranks, reserved for the wealthiest traders; Kostyukov invokes it to claim social superiority over the carpenter Yelizarov.