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zemstvo
Part of speech: NounA local Russian elective body, managing local affairs, such as roads, schools, charity, etc.
Usage examples "zemstvo":- If I were asked what he was like at first sight, I should say: " A Zemstvo doctor or a teacher of a provincial secondary school." - "Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov", Maxim Gorky Alexander Kuprin I. A. Bunin.
- Let him come and see how our Zemstvo doctors work and what they do for the people. - "Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov", Maxim Gorky Alexander Kuprin I. A. Bunin.
- It was on the strength of this report that the Zemstvo of Tver petitioned him that in the future it might have direct access to him and have a say in the government. - "The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement", Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper, Frank Alfred Golder, Robert Joseph Kerner.