concept
Vashe-vysokoblagorodie ("Your Honor")
Your Honor
also: ваше высокоблагородие, vashe-vysokoblagorodie
The formal deferential address owed to an official of the sixth through eighth ranks in the imperial Table of Ranks, one degree higher than the ober-officer honorific "vashe-blagorodie"; Nikolai Ivanych expects peasants to use it toward him once he becomes a landowner.
Reading notes
- Gooseberries §35 Your Honor
The formal deferential address due an official of the sixth through eighth ranks in the imperial Table of Ranks; Nikolai Ivanych, now a landowner, takes offense when the local peasants fail to use it toward him.
- The New Villa §106 Your High Honor
The formal, deferential address owed to a gentleman of the higher ranks in the imperial Table of Ranks; Lychkov uses it to the engineer while begging him to intervene against his own son.
- On Official Business §8 Your High Honor
Vashe-vysokoblagorodie, the formal address owed to an official of the sixth through eighth rank in the imperial Table of Ranks; Loshadin uses it throughout to address both the magistrate and the doctor.