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Poruchik
Lieutenant
also: поручик, Lieutenant
A junior officer's rank in the Imperial Russian army, roughly equivalent to first lieutenant. Naming the landlord's rank lends the want-ad a veneer of respectability the punning surname instantly undercuts.
Reading notes
- A Cook Wanted §1 Lieutenant
Poruchik, a junior officer's rank in the Imperial Russian army (roughly first lieutenant); naming the landlord's rank lends the notice a veneer of respectability the punning surname immediately undercuts.
- At the Almshouse for the Incurable and the Aged §4 retired guards lieutenant
'Poruchik' (lieutenant) was a junior officer's rank; 'guards' regiments were the elite, socially prestigious units of the Imperial army. Grandfather's threadbare title is the last scrap of the status he clings to.
Mentioned in 75 works (204 mentions)
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
This and That (Letters and Telegrams)
The Alarm Clock's Calendar
A Cook Wanted
Before the Wedding
A Nasty Story
The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes
The Fair
Over Some Apples
Forgotten!!
The Green Braid
Captions for Drawings
What Is Better?
The Commerce Counsellor's Daughter
A Heroine of a Lady
A Young Man
The Naive Wood-Sprite
He Understood!
The Decoration
To I. P. Chekhov, October 1883. Moscow.
A Chip Off the Old Block
The Captain's Uniform
The Kulachye's Nest
The Liberal Sweetheart
Tears Invisible to the World
To N. A. Leikin, 23 August 1884. Voskresensk.
They Abolished It!
In the Rooms
At the Almshouse for the Incurable and the Aged
The Crow
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The Operator
An Expensive Dog
The Guest
An Intelligent Blockhead
For Husbands' Information
In a Foreign Land
Psychopaths
The Tapёr
A Woman's Happiness
The Chemist's Wife
The Husband
About Women
To N. A. Leikin, 7 September 1886. Voskresensk.
To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 December 1886. Moscow.
The Privy Councillor
The Mire
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