concept
Vitsmundir
uniform coat
also: вицмундир, uniform coat
The formal dress uniform worn by Russian civil servants for official occasions and audiences with superiors, signaling rank and deference.
Reading notes
- The Death of a Government Clerk §15 uniform coat
The 'вицмундир' (vitsmundir), a civil servant's dress uniform worn for formal occasions and audiences with superiors -- Chervyakov dons a new one for his supplicating visit, and dies in it without ever taking it off.