Ssudnaya kassa (pawnbroker's loan office)

Reading notes

• Trouble §17 trudge off to the pawnshop

  Ssudnaya kassa, a pawnbroker's loan office where household goods were pledged for small short-term cash advances -- the ordinary recourse of a Russian urban family suddenly without income, and the concrete first step Putokhin imagines taking now that he has lost his post.

• A Man I Know §2 ссудную кассу

  A ssudnaya kassa (loan office/pawnshop) was a licensed establishment that gave short-term cash loans against pledged valuables at set, often steep, rates -- the standard recourse of the urban poor and demimonde for quick cash, and the first stop in Wanda's day.