Uryadnik

Reading notes

• The Only Remedy §29 constable

  An uryadnik, the lowest-ranking officer of the Imperial Russian rural police; this one has been dismissed from service, and his mania theatrically inverts his old power to detain people.

• From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §109 Constable Denis Postnikov

  An uryadnik, the lowest-ranking officer of the Imperial Russian rural police. His dry, deadpan report on a stranger's suicide closes the piece on a note far darker than its opening jokes.

• He Understood! §58 the constable

  Uryadnik, the lowest-ranking rural police officer in Imperial Russia, responsible for a group of villages; Krzhevetsky and Volchkov repeatedly threaten to have one draw up a formal report (akt) against Pavel for illegal hunting.

• St. Peter's Day §1 the local constable

  The uryadnik was a rural police constable in Imperial Russia, the lowest rank of the district police, responsible for enforcing regulations such as closed hunting seasons in the countryside.

• Sergeant Prishibeyev §2 district constable Zhigin

  Zhigin holds the office of uryadnik, a rank of rural police constable introduced in 1878 -- one professional step above the peasant-elected sotsky, and the only figure in the village with real legal authority to keep order, which is exactly the authority Prishibeyev keeps usurping.

• The Bad Boy §26 Institute of Constables

  A spoof entry naming the corps of rural police constables (uryadniki) as though it were an educational institution, with a punchline about admitting livestock.