office
Department of Communications
department of communications
also: ведомство путей сообщения
The imperial Russian ministry overseeing roads, railways, and waterways. General Brizzhalov's branch of state service, unrelated to Chervyakov's own office.
Reading notes
- A Romance with a Double Bass §50 ведомства путей сообщения
The Department of Communications (ведомство путей сообщения) was the Imperial Russian ministry overseeing railways, roads, and waterways; Lakeich's post there situates him among the technocratic officialdom of the era's rapidly expanding rail network.
- The Death of a Government Clerk §1 department of communications
The imperial ministry overseeing roads, railways, and waterways -- Brizzhalov's branch of state service, unrelated to Chervyakov's own office, underscoring that the general has no actual power over him.