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Ivan (the watchman)

also: сторож Иван

The bank's watchman, summoned to co-sign as guarantor on a client's promissory note he has no real capacity to back, then tipped a twenty-kopeck coin for his trouble -- a small illustration of how casually Rykov's bank manufactured paper credit.

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