institution
Bursa (Church Boarding Seminary)
the bursa
also: бурса
A boarding seminary for training clergy and church servitors, notorious in Russian literature for harsh discipline including corporal punishment (a birching) -- which Kuryatin, himself a product of a similar milieu, throws in Vonmiglasov's face.
Reading notes
- Surgery §100 at the seminary
The bursa, a boarding seminary for training clergy and sextons, notorious in Russian literature (Pomyalovsky, and later Chekhov himself) for its harsh discipline, including corporal punishment -- which Kuryatin invokes in his parting jab.