office
Councillor of Commerce
councillor of commerce
also: kommertsii sovetnik
An honorary civil rank in Imperial Russia awarded to distinguished merchants and manufacturers, conferring a status roughly parallel to a minor court title.
Reading notes
- The Rag §2 commercial councillor
An honorary civil rank awarded to distinguished merchants and manufacturers in Imperial Russia, conferring social standing roughly parallel to a minor court title -- it is precisely this rank, and the wealth behind it, that lets a factory owner like Bludykhin humiliate a journalist with impunity.
- Vanka §9 councillor of commerce
\emph{Kommertsii sovetnik}, an honorary civil rank awarded to successful merchants and industrialists in Imperial Russia, roughly equivalent in status to a minor court title.