muzhik

Most of the muzhiks I met saw pictures of Putin's mistresses, yachts and palaces, and well aware whose earnings pay for it.

"Capital oppresses the workers--the workers in our country, the muzhiks, bear all the burden of labor, and their position is such that, however much they work, they can never get out of their brutish situation.

It happened that some muzhiks [i.e., peasants] from a neighboring village were passing by.

His entrance caused no stir whatever in town and was accompanied by nothing special; only two Russian muzhiks standing by the door of the pot-house across from the inn made some remarks, which referred, however more to the vehicle than to the person sitting in it.

It is true: the scene is indebted to a similar sequence in Anna Karenina where the aristocrat Levin finds fulfillment scything with muzhiks. In the context of a war novel, though, such a moment gains further resonance: the harvest is at once a relief from a soldier's labours and an extension of them.

It is wrong and unacceptable of Feest to claim that Estonian peasants were not uneducated Russian muzhiks and that this contributed to the failure of central power to implement its values (329).

Three times the muzhiks pressed up to the doors and each time three of them fell to the ground; so they leg it to the lumber house.

grumbling mob; gunfire rattled, gasping muzhiks fell to the earth, red

And at the end of every market day, she would go to the muzhiks, offering a lower price for the produce they could not sell that day.

Nasdrov, the head of the Russian delegation, has arrived!" The Russians in the room all clambered to their feet and stared at their shoes like submissive muzhiks, while the rest of us looked around at each other in bafflement.

Her last review, "The Bones of Muzhiks," appeared in the November 2001 issue.