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Collegiate Counselor
also: kollezhsky sovetnik, Коллежский советник
The 6th of the fourteen ranks in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks, a solidly senior civil-service grade equivalent to army colonel; here piled with the honorific "Chevalier" (kavaler, an order-holder) for comic bureaucratic weight atop a mock Christmas decree.
Reading notes
- Who Is to Blame? §1 collegiate councillor
Kollezhsky sovetnik, the 6th of the fourteen grades in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks, roughly equivalent to an army colonel -- a solidly senior civil-service rank appropriate to a gymnasium schoolmaster of some seniority, and part of the deadpan bureaucratic precision Chekhov often applies to comic figures.
- Instruction (from Provincial Life) §13 Collegiate Counselor and Chevalier
Collegiate Counselor (kollezhsky sovetnik), the 6th of the fourteen ranks in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks -- a solidly senior civil-service grade; "Chevalier" (kavaler) signals he also holds a state order or decoration, the whole title piling up honorifics for comic bureaucratic weight.
- Vint §83 Collegiate Councillors -- jacks
Collegiate Councillor (kollezhsky sovetnik), class VI in the Table of Ranks -- assigned the jack.