concept
prisutstviye
the government office
also: присутствие, prisutstvie
The standing Russian term for a government bureau's public office hours and the room where petitioners waited to be seen by clerks -- the institution Chekhov's satire targets.
Reading notes
- A Certified Copy §1 the government office
Renders "присутствие" (prisutstviye), the standing term for a government bureau's public office hours and the room where petitioners waited to be seen by clerks. Chekhov's satire targets exactly this institution's bureaucratic indifference.