office
Collegiate Secretary
collegiate secretary
also: коллежский секретарь, kollezhsky sekretar
The tenth grade in Imperial Russia's Table of Ranks, a modest civil-service rank; Romansov cites his own title bitterly as proof that rank confers no real worth, undercutting his own drunken claim to be "lord of nature."
Reading notes
- The New Villa §114 collegiate secretary
A modest rank in Imperial Russia's civil-service Table of Ranks; the new owner of the villa holds only this rank but affects the manner of a far more important official.
- A Man's Conversation with a Dog §36 collegiate secretary
The tenth grade in Imperial Russia's Table of Ranks, a modest civil-service rank Romansov cites bitterly against his own drunken boast of being "lord of nature."
- The Exclamation Mark §2 collegiate secretary
Kollezhsky sekretar, the tenth of fourteen grades in the imperial Table of Ranks -- a modest, unglamorous civil-service rank reached by long, unremarkable service rather than distinction, fitting for a man whose entire claim to competence is forty years of correct paperwork.