office
Voinsky Nachalnik
military commandant
also: воинский начальник
The local officer responsible for military conscription and district garrison affairs in Imperial Russia; a social peer or superior at whose card table Prachkin loses money he cannot vent his anger about safely, displacing it onto his own household instead.
Reading notes
- Not in the Mood §54 military commandant
The voinsky nachalnik, the local officer in charge of military conscription and district garrison affairs -- a social equal or superior whose card table Prachkin cannot afford to lose his temper at, so his humiliation there is displaced onto his own household instead.