concept
Village Self-Administration Officials
village officials
also: starosta, sotskie
The elected village elder (starosta), his deputy, the parish clerk, and the petty rural constables (sotskie) made up the lowest tier of Russian village self-government, called on to formally witness and document Semyon's illegal timber-felling.
Reading notes
- The Lady of the Manor §225 the village elder, the deputy elder, the clerk, the constables
The starosta (elected village elder), his deputy, the parish clerk (pisar), and the sotskie (petty rural constables) made up the lowest tier of Russian village self-administration, called on here to formally witness and document Semyon's illegal timber-felling.