"I should not care to handle any stray moujik one finds dead about the roadside; unless, of course, you think there is more money about him.

And any man who has lived in Russia, has dabbled in Russian humanity, and noted the singular unattractiveness of Russian lifeany such man can scarcely deny the fact that if one deprives the moujik of his privilege of getting gloriously and frequently intoxicated, one takes away from that same moujik the one happiness of his existence.

And any man who has lived in Russia, has dabbled in Russian humanity, and noted the singular unattractiveness of Russian lifeany such man can scarcely deny the fact that if one deprives the moujik of his privilege of getting gloriously and frequently intoxicated, one takes away from that same moujik the one happiness of his existence.

When the famine comes, and come it assuredly will, the moujik has no alternative but to stay where he is and starve.

Some day the moujik will erect unto himself a rough sort of a guillotine, but not in our day.

" "A movement, my dear baron, to educate the moujik, if you please.

The moujiks are getting dangerous.

The moujiks of Osterno gazed at him beneath their shaggy brows.

The moujiks avoid me when they meet me.

"There are two men in the world," went on the voluble Lanovitch, "who can manage the moujiks of Tveryou and I; so I came.

"Do you think St. Petersburg would countenance a prince who works among his moujiks?

The peasant, or moujik, is a primitive and generally an entirely illiterate person, but he possesses qualities which his more sophisticated brothers in the West may well envy and admire, a profound common-sense, a grand simplicity of life and outlook, and an unshakable faith in the unseen world.

Its great offensiveness lay in its boldness: that a negro should publish in a newspaper what white people would scarcely acknowledge to themselves in secret was much as though a Russian moujik or a German peasant should rush into print to question the divine right of the Lord's Anointed.

he exclaims, "that that drunken moujik actually asked me for something to drink?"

In the forepart of the steamer are many passengers, Turkomans in rags, Kirghizes wrapped up to the eyes, moujiks in emigrant costumepoor fellows, in fact, stretched on the spare spars, against the sides, and along the tarpaulins.

In black corduroy trousers, full and bagging as a moujik's, she stood at ease, her feet small and dainty even in the heavy caribou-hide boots.

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, closer, tighter, tighter around you: a few more generations and you will be as enslaved as were ever the moujiks of Russia.

In Russia and with princely Russian sumptuousness, they had lived for a year in his castle, in the country, among a population of sodden moujiks who worshipped that beautiful woman in the white and blue furs as devotedly as if she had been a Virgin stepping forth from the gilded background of an ikon.

Where, for instance, is there a man under suspicion of some kind or other, were it even the most thick-headed moujik, who does not know that the magistrate will commence by putting all sorts of out-of-the-way questions to take him off the scent (if I may be allowed to use your happy simile), and that then he suddenly gives him one between the eyes?

"If such a course succeeds with an uncultured moujik, it is equally efficacious when it concerns an enlightened, intelligent, or even distinguished man.

for there dwell coarse moujiks, and primitive Russians, without any kind of civilization.

He was rather pale, but stout, badly built, and awkwarda regular moujik, to use the expression employed by Glafira Petrovna.

Besides this old couple, and three paunchy little children in long shirts, Anton's great-grandchildren, there lived also in the seigniorial household an untaxable[A] moujik, who had only one arm.

You have drunk Dostoieffsky until you can see nothing but God and the moujik!

When we entered our Russian hotelwhen we had entirely entered, I mean, for we passed through six or eight swinging doors with moujiks to open and shut each one, and bow and scrape at our feetwe found ourselves in a stiflingly hot corridor, where the odor was a combination of smoke and people whose furs needed airing.