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Court Councillor

court councillor

also: надворного советника

A mid-level civil rank (class VII in the Table of Ranks), two grades above titular councillor; the father falsely claimed this rank before the groom discovered he is only a titular councillor.

Reading notes

The Ram and the Young Lady §6 court councillor Paltsev
Court councillor (класс VII of the Table of Ranks) was a mid-level civil grade; naming her father's rank is the young lady's one credential as she asks for a favor.
From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §21 Court Councillor
Nadvorny sovetnik, class VII in the Table of Ranks -- the point, per this joke, at which a paunch becomes practically obligatory.
A Short Anatomy of Man §15 court councillor
A mid-level civil rank (class VII in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks), the point in a bureaucrat's career, per the joke, when a paunch becomes de rigueur.
My Ranks and Titles §2 court councillor
Class VII in the imperial Table of Ranks. The pun turns on 'dvor' (yard/court): the narrator 'holds court' with the yardkeeper in his own courtyard.
On the Transience of Things §2 Court Councillor
Nadvorny sovetnik, class VII in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks -- a solidly mid-level civil-service grade. Assigning Podtykin this rank frames his fatal gluttony as a small comic tragedy of the respectable bureaucratic class.
Before the Wedding §14 court councillor
A mid-level civil-service rank, seventh of fourteen in the Table of Ranks, two grades above titular councillor -- the rank the groom believed his father-in-law held, before learning he'd been deceived about it.
A Story Hard to Give a Title To §3 court councillors
Court Councillor, class VII in the Table of Ranks, two grades above titular councillor; named alongside it as the higher-ranked diners present at the table.
A Romance with a Double Bass §50 надворный советник
Nadvorny sovetnik ("court councillor") is the seventh of the fourteen ranks in Peter the Great's Table of Ranks, a solidly respectable mid-level civil rank; Lakeich's title marks him as a comfortable, established bureaucratic bridegroom, a fitting match for a prince's daughter in the story's mock-society register.
Vint §84 Court Councillors -- tens
Court Councillor (nadvorny sovetnik), class VII in the Table of Ranks -- assigned the ten.
Visiting Cards §4 Надворный советник и кавалер
Court Councillor, class VII of the Table of Ranks; "and Chevalier" (и кавалер) signals the holder has also been awarded at least one order/decoration -- a second layer of official-sounding self-importance stacked onto a name built from a bodily ailment.
The Bridegroom and Papa §8 надворного советника
Nadvorny sovetnik (court councillor) is a mid-level civil rank, class VII of the Table of Ranks -- respectable but unglamorous, the kind of settled bureaucratic standing that makes Kondrashkin both a plausible dacha-owning paterfamilias and comically undeterrable in his hunt for sons-in-law.