ispravnik

The ispravnik of Bielsk passed along the rows of condemned.

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Even the Governor-General's all-powerful document produced little effect here, for the _ispravnik_ appeared to regard himself as beyond the reach of even the Tsar's Viceroy, which, indeed, from an inaccessible point of view, he undoubtedly was.

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Yartsegg, a tall elderly man in ragged deerskins, informed me that the village possessed no _ispravnik_ but himself, at which I could scarcely restrain a smile.

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The _ispravnik_ received us in the official grey and scarlet, reminding me that even in this remote corner of the Empire a traveller is well within reach of Petersburg and the secret police.

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The _ispravnik_ had also tried cabbages, with a similar result.

From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

It has seldom been my lot to pass such a depressing evening as that which followed my interview with the _ispravnik_, but the prospect of an entire summer's imprisonment in Arctic wilds affected us far less than the failure of the expedition.

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A couple of tables littered with papers occupied the centre of the room, and at one of these sat the _ispravnik_, a wooden-faced peremptory person in dark green tunic and gold shoulder straps.

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We reached the place late at night, but the _ispravnik_ was more hospitably inclined than others we had met, and gave us supper while the teams were changed.

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The only other guest was one Vassily Brando, a political exile, whose intimacy with the _ispravnik_ was strangely at variance with all that I had heard and read concerning exiles in the remoter parts of Siberia.

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There is no inn at Vitimsk, but the post-house was clean and comfortable, and the _ispravnik_, on reading the Governor's letter, also placed his house and services at my disposal, but I only availed myself of the latter to hasten the alteration to the sleighs.

From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894