Intendant (Quartermaster)

Reading notes

• The Only Remedy §32 quartermaster

  An intendant responsible for supply and provisioning in military or civil service; the uncle's mania -- eating spoiled rations himself -- comically punishes his own household with the very austerity his office is supposed to prevent.

• Fortune-Tellers, Male and Female §2 quartermaster

  Intendant (интендант): an army or civil-service quartermaster responsible for supply and provisioning, a mid-level official post in Imperial Russia.

• A Chip Off the Old Block §14 in the commissariat

  An army supply and provisioning post in Imperial Russia, notorious in the period for graft; the narrator names it as the training ground for Grandfather's own thieving habits.