Zemstvo

* The term Zemstvo is derived from the word Zemlya, meaning land, and might be translated, if a barbarism were permissible, by Land-dom on the analogy of Kingdom, Dukedom, etc.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

The Zemstvo is a kind of local administration which supplements the action of the rural Communes, and takes cognizance of those higher public wants which individual Communes cannot possibly satisfy.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

"The Zemstvo is the new local administration, is it not?"

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

Meanwhile the local rates have been rising with alarming rapidity; and many people draw from all this the conclusion that the Zemstvo is a worthless institution which has increased the taxation without conferring any corresponding benefit on the country.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

She resumed her studies at university and worked part-time for the Kiev local government in the Zemstvo government aid organization.

Devorah Dayan. 2009

The coachman preserved a sullen silence, probably he had felt dreary while he was waiting by the Zemstvo hut, and now he, too, was thinking of the dead man.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

And she felt annoyed with the Zemstvo board at which she had found no one the day before.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

“To shoot oneself in the Zemstvo hut, how tactless!” said the doctor.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

The Zemstvo was blamed for everything — for the arrears, and for the oppressions, and for the failure of the crops, though no one of them knew what was meant by the Zemstvo.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

At the meetings of the Zemstvo and other local bodies, who was the first to fall foul of the peasants?

The Witch, and other stories 2004