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Skhod (Village Assembly)
skhod
also: сход, сходка
The traditional assembly of male heads of household in a Russian village, which decided communal matters and, after the 1861 Emancipation, held a limited formal role in peasant self-government; its resolutions -- such as a pledged annual contribution to a new school -- carried moral rather than strictly binding force.
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- A Nightmare §16 Мужики постановили на сходе платить ежегодно по тридцати копеек с каждой мужской души
The skhod was the traditional village assembly of male heads of household, which by custom (and, after 1861, in a limited legal capacity) voted on communal obligations such as this pledge of thirty kopecks per adult male 'soul' a year toward the new school -- a promise Father Yakov immediately flags as unreliable ('but that is only a promise!'), since the skhod's resolutions carried moral rather than binding force.
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