office
Provincial Governor
the governor
also: губернатор, gubernator
The Crown-appointed chief administrative official over an entire province in Imperial Russia, ranking well above district-level officials like the ispravnik and stanovoy; Uncle Ivan's ability to casually bring the governor to dinner displays his metropolitan social weight and throws the household into a panicked slaughter of poultry.
Reading notes
- The Privy Councillor §98 the governor
The provincial governor (gubernator) was the Crown's chief administrative official over an entire province, ranking far above the district-level ispravnik and stanovoy; that Uncle Ivan can casually produce the governor as a drop-in dinner guest is a display of his Petersburg social weight, and the sheer scale of the household's panicked slaughter of poultry in §100 measures how far above their normal circle such a guest stands.
Mentioned in 28 works (91 mentions)
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
The Alarm Clock's Calendar
The Lady Jurist
At the Almshouse for the Incurable and the Aged
The Village Elder
The Restless Guest
Ladies
A First-Class Passenger
The Privy Councillor
The Mire
Frost
To Al. P. Chekhov, August 1887. Babkino.
Darkness
To A. S. Suvorin, 7 November 1888. Moscow.
Tatyana Repina
From Siberia
Notebooks. Diaries
To A. I. Smagin, 26 January 1892. Moscow.
To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh.
To M. P. Chekhova, 9 February 1892. Bobrov.
The Teacher of Literature
My Life: A Provincial's Story
Sakhalin Island
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