concept
Zolotnik
zolotnik
also: золотник
A small pre-revolutionary Russian unit of weight, about 4.27 grams, traditionally 1/96 of a pound.
Reading notes
- From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper §15 zolotniks
A pre-revolutionary Russian unit of weight (about 4.27 grams), used here in a mock-apothecary recipe for a home cure of the narrator's imaginary catarrh.
- Problems of a Madman Mathematician §5 zolotniks
A zolotnik (золотник) is a small pre-revolutionary Russian unit of weight, about 4.27 grams, traditionally 1/96 of a pound -- exactly the absurd, needlessly precise conversion factor Chekhov piles into this fake problem.