office
Archivist
the archivist
also: архивариус
A minor clerical official responsible for keeping an institution's records; a modest, low-ranking post in the Russian civil service hierarchy of the period.
Reading notes
- On the Nail §10 the assistant archivist
A minor clerical post keeping an institution's records -- one of the modest ranks that make up Struchkov's guest list.
- Speech and Strap §3 the archivist's
A minor clerical official responsible for keeping an institution's records; here, the most soberly deferential of the assembled staff, whose stiff back the narrator watches during the speech.