moujiks

So that he could creep among my moujiks, sowing sedition, preaching revolution!

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Next year, and every year thereafter, you would have all the moujiks from here to Rostov bawling at my door: 'We cannot pay the soul-tax,30 batiushka; pay for us, as you paid for so-and-so.'

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

But I can't think of one worse managed than the moujiks 'attack on Starotorsk.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

And there it was, touch and go, with the moujiks beating on the panels, smashing in the downstairs windows on that side to clamber in, waving their trowels and torches and yelling for Pencherjevsky's blood. 34

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

But I couldn't help adding: "Would your moujiks have ridden into the battery at Balaclava?"

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Heavens, we speak it better than most moujiks, I'll swear.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Pencherjevsky absolutely believed that his moujiks were well off.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The wine they may put back in the moujiks* (* Peasants.) for me.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Pencherjevsky wasn't worried about revolution among his own moujiks because, as I say, he regarded himself as a good master.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

But Pencherjevsky had his own code, and believed his moujiks thought the better of him for it, and were content.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010