mujik
Britishnoun
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But this strategy of massed-force-cum-surprise had two flaws: it overestimated the value of the tank-plane team; it underestimated the value of the grey, sturdy, patient Russian mujik as a military weapon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet this mujik was now a first-rate soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The box!" cried Daria, "I felt sure of it!" and seizing Var-Vara by one hand, and the mujik by the other, she dragged them down the street, the old peasant remonstrating and grumbling.
From Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Barry, Fanny
But in Russia even the mujik has constantly a temperature of nearly 77° in his cabin in the very height of winter, which he obtains in a very simple and economical manner.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
All Russia, from the Empress down to the most illiterate mujik, accepted him as divine and swallowed any lie he might utter.
From The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by Le Queux, William
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