concept
Rye (rozh)
rye
also: рожь
The staple grain of the Russian peasant diet; the monks' errand of bringing sacks of rye to be ground at Biryukov's mill is the basic transaction structuring the story's economy and the source of the miller's leverage over his customers.
Reading notes
- At the Mill §2 рожь
Rye, the staple grain of the Russian peasant diet, here being brought by the monks to be ground into flour -- the basic transaction that structures the mill's economy and gives the miller his leverage over customers.