Stanovoy Pristav

Reading notes

• The Only Remedy §28 police official

  A stanovoy pristav, the police official in charge of a rural district (stan) in Imperial Russia, responsible for maintaining order and enforcing administrative regulations, including bans on unauthorized public gatherings.

• From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §16 district police officer

  A stanovoy pristav, the tsarist-era rural police officer in charge of a stan (district). His blank incomprehension of what a brain is for skewers the type as more brawn than brain.

• From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §106 Police Inspector of the 2nd District

  Addressed to a pristav "of the 2nd stan" (rural district) -- the same rural police rank, stanovoy pristav, introduced earlier in this piece.

• Мужики §192 the district police inspector

  The становой (stanovoy pristav), the police official in charge of a rural administrative subdivision (stan) within a district; the villagers' own colloquial name for him, "the master" (barin), is kept in direct speech elsewhere in the chapter to preserve how the peasants themselves refer to him.

• Not in the Mood §1 district police officer

  A stanovoy pristav, the police official in charge of a rural district (stan) in Imperial Russia -- a minor but locally powerful bureaucratic post, exactly the kind of small authority whose bad mood the story shows curdling into domestic cruelty.

• The New Villa §108 the district police officer

  The police official in charge of a rural district in Imperial Russia; the engineer names him, along with the land captain, as the proper authority for the Lychkovs' family dispute.

• A Fragment §4 district police captain

  Становой пристав (stanovoy pristav), the police official in charge of a rural district (stan), responsible for local order; his visit lets Kozerogov rehearse his rank-consciousness on a captive, deferential listener.

• On Official Business §23 the district police officer

  The stanovoy pristav, the police official in charge of a rural district (stan); one of the many officials Loshadin's thirty years of courier duty have carried papers to.

• The Privy Councillor §93 the district police officer, Akim Nikitich

  The stanovoy pristav was the police official responsible for a rural sub-district (stan); his sudden, unexplained arrival -- followed by the district superintendent and then the governor's own carriage -- builds the boy's mounting dread that the household is about to face some legal reckoning for the previous night's violence, a fear the story deflates when the real reason turns out to be a purely social visit.

• In the Ravine §6 district police inspector

  The stanovoy pristav, the police official responsible for a rural district, quietly paid off here -- along with the county doctor -- to overlook the tannery's illegal reopening.

• In the Railway Carriage §21 I'm a police superintendent

  The fourth vignette's punchline: the man moralizing grandly about money and its temptations is a stanovoy pristav, a rural district police official -- a position with everyday, mundane access to bribery, sharpening the irony of his speech.