Chinovniki
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"In passing, it may be remarked that his fellow tchinovniks were a peculiarly plain, unsightly lot, some of them having faces like badly baked bread, swollen cheeks, receding chins, and cracked and blistered upper lips. Indeed, not a man of them was handsome." --Dead Souls by Gogol |
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Russian-speakers referred to bureaucrats as chinovniki (чиновники) because of the rank or chin (чин) which they held. Contrary to popular imagination, the Russian Empire was an under-governed country compared to the rest of Europe.
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