ukaz

A special ukaz, a personal decree for a special party member.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

A special ukaz, a personal decree for a special party member.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

The Czar himself is pushing us to America by this last ukaz.

Hungry Hearts 1920

With grief-glazed eyes my father muttered a broken prayer as the Cossack thundered the ukaz: "A thousand rubles fine or a year in prison if you are ever found again teaching children where you're eating and sleeping."

Hungry Hearts 1920

Again I saw the Cossack and heard him thunder the ukaz.

Hungry Hearts 1920

The present decree is of a temporary nature, and will be revoked by a special ukaz when normal conditions of public life are re-established.

Appendix to Chapter VII 1922

I stood at the window watching the road, lest the Cossack come upon us unawares to enforce the ukaz of the Czar, which would tear the bread from our mouths: "No Chadir [Hebrew school] shall be held in a room used for cooking and sleeping."

Hungry Hearts 1920

Ornatsky's missionary speech, in which he says that the natives do not become Christians because they are waiting for a special ukaz (that is, command) from the Tsar on the subject and are waiting for their chiefs to be baptized ... (by force -- be it understood).

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

In 1861 the domestic serfs were emancipated by Imperial ukaz.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

As might have been foreseen, the ukaz and the circular had not at all the desired effect of "introducing the necessary tranquillity into public life, which has lately been diverted from its normal course."

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880