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Sudebny Pristav (Court Bailiff)

bailiff

also: судебный пристав, sudebny pristav

The official empowered to enforce court judgments in Imperial Russia -- seizing property or garnisheeing income on behalf of a creditor holding a writ of execution; repeated threats to invoke the bailiff mark the escalating pettiness of a dispute.

Reading notes

Mentioned in 26 works (33 mentions)

Late-Blooming Flowers Stories · 1 mention
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 1 mention
St. Peter's Day Stories · 1 mention
Captions for Drawings Juvenilia · 1 mention
The Virtuous Tavern-Keeper Stories · 1 mention
A Young Man Stories · 1 mention
The Case of the Year 1884 (From Our Correspondent) Stories · 1 mention
Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights Stories · 1 mention
The Night Before the Trial Stories · 1 mention
The Last of the Mohican Women Stories · 1 mention
Vint Stories · 1 mention
Something Serious Stories · 1 mention
Drowsy Stupor Stories · 2 mentions
The Mirror Stories · 1 mention
The Poison Stories · 4 mentions
To V. V. Bilibin, 18 January 1886. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
A Trivial Incident Stories · 2 mentions
The Name-Day Party Stories · 2 mentions
The Princess Stories · 1 mention
The Wood Demon Plays · 1 mention
A Woman's Kingdom Stories · 1 mention
Ward No. 6 Stories · 2 mentions
Neighbors Stories · 1 mention
The Teacher of Literature Stories · 1 mention
Anna on the Neck Stories · 1 mention
Ariadne Stories · 1 mention

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