office
Politseymeyster
police chief
also: полицеймейстер, police-master
The senior police official (police-master) of a Russian provincial town or city district under the imperial administration, a stock figure of feared, arbitrary petty authority in Chekhov's comic sketches.
Reading notes
- At the Post Office §11 police chief
*Politseymeyster* (police-master), the senior police official of a Russian provincial town or city district under the imperial administration, feared for petty and arbitrary exercises of authority.