The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kibitka \Ki*bit"ka\, n.; pl. Kibitkas. [Russ.]
A tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars.
A rude kind of Russian vehicle, on wheels or on runners, sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable habitation.
Wikipedia
A kibitka can refer to a yurt or a Russian type of carriage.
The kibitka wagon uses the same equipage as the troika. Compared to the troika a kibitka is larger, and usually closed.
During the Russian Empire it was used to deport disgraced noblemen which led to the term "Kibitkenjustiz" (engl: Kibitkenjustice).
Usage examples of "kibitka".
By the middle of the next forenoon, Boris and his wife, seated in the open kibitka, drawn by post-horses, reached the boundaries of the estate, a few versts from the village.
As the kibitka slowly climbed the hill on its way to the castle- gate, Prince Alexis, who had heard and enjoyed the noises in the village from a balcony on the western tower, made his appearance on the head of the steps which led from the court-yard to the state apartments.
Now the hard clatter of hoofs and the rumbling, of wheels echoed from the archway, and the kibitka rolled into the courtyard.
I took my seat in the kibitka with Saveliitch, and shedding bitter tears, set out for my destination.
The kibitka advanced but slowly, now raised on a hillock, now descending into a hollow, swaying from side like a boat on a stormy sea.
I pulled down the hood of the kibitka, wrapped myself up in my pelisse, and fell asleep, rocked by the swaying of the vehicle, and lulled by the chant of the tempest.
The Tartar horses shot off, the bells tinkled, the kibitka flew over the snow.
As the kibitka slowly climbed the hill on its way to the castlegate, Prince Alexis, who had heard and enjoyed the noises in the village from a balcony on the western tower, made his appearance on the head of the steps which led from the court-yard to the state apartments.
Ivan Fyodorovich was discharged with the rank of sublieutenant, hired a Jew for forty roubles to take him from Mogilev to Gadyach, and sat himself in the kibitka just at the time when the trees became clothed in young, still sparse leaves, all the earth greened brightly with fresh green, and all the fields smelled of spring.
The sun had long set when, with kibitka and Jew, he drove into the inn.
But the aunt, who had seen the bast-covered kibitka from far off, was already there.
I ordered my bast-covered kibitka to stop in front of the church and went in so quietly that no one turned around.
The road was smooth and the snow firm, and they were travelling in a kibitkas, a hooded sledge normally drawn by one horse, but Leonid Matveyich had a troika team trained to draw it, a fast trotting horse in the middle, and a galloper on either side, so they raced along in fine style, well huddled up in furs, with thick straw about their booted feet and a hot, flannel-wrapped brick each to hold on the lap or put under the feet, and reached the Bednyak estate well inside the estimated two hours.
The riot was as evident to him as the kibitkas had been earlier to Stepan Trofimovich.
This increase was very opportune, for something would soon have been needed to replace the koumyss with which the kibitka had been stored at Krasnoiarsk.