moujik


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a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)

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Lastly, the long winter nights and the debates of the mir have trained the moujik for centuries to verbal improvisation." (1) For all its quaint orientalism, this observation brings to our attention the fact that Russia's rulers had to consider how they would address their subjects orally as well as through the written word.
The Red Indian carries it in his breast as he threads the forest or paddles on the Great Lakes; the Negro learns it by heart on the plantations; on the Russian steppe it is in the hands of moujik and the wandering herdsman.
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"I crumpled like a Moujik," France's most popular actor told the court in this Paris suburb, likening himself to a drunken Russian peasant.
A common feature, too, is the wretchedness of the Russian muzhik (peasant, often spelled "moujik").
I was congratulated warmly, and the talk fell on those happier days when my acquaintances had plundered the houses of the wealthy, and drunk wine and smoked cigars all day long."(91) While no linguist, our hero managed to pass himself off quite easily as a Russian since he has picked up a little Russian, "just about the vocabulary of an ordinary moujik."(92) As to revolutionary justice as meted out by the Bolsheviks, Jepson was contemptuous.
If Frank's writing on Pushkin was a campaign in the dual struggle against Bolshevism and Nazism, he abstained from simplistic sociopolitical reactions in Russia of the later Gershenzon or of Shchegolev's Pushkin and The Moujiks (1928) or Blagoi's The Sociology of Pushkin's Art (1929).
Though there is a kind of pathetic nostalgia for Moscow from the visiting moujiks in 'Muzhiki', to say nothing of the sisters in Tri sestry, Chekhov takes a broader view of Russian late nineteenth-century society, and apparently sees little scope for the town miraculously to solve the village's problems, just as he is free of all idealization of village life, shocking many contemporary liberals by his robust comments on the peasants.
(Death was feared only by the rich moujiks, and the richer they got the less they believed in God and in the salvation of the soul; it was only out of fear of their earthly end, just to be on the safe side, that they placed candles and had prayers said in church.