baritch

Updated: May 24, 2025

Everything that disturbs the habitual routine alarms them. Russia cannot make any real progress so long as she is ruled by these cursed tchinovniks." Scarcely less pernicious than the tchinovnik, in the eyes of our would-be reformer, is the baritch that is to say, the pampered, capricious, spoiled child of mature years, whose life is spent in elegant indolence and fine talking.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia