What is "moujik"

Usage examples of "moujik".

The dumb and submissive moujik found in Tolstoy a living voice to express his sufferings.

Even refinement was lacking in it, since, on the contrary, it precisely resembled that of a simple-looking moujik, while I also had the same big hands and feet as he.

Clusters of dried herbs hung from the ceiling, and all among them were clumps of old boots, shriveled skins, battered pans, scrap-iron, sheep-skins, useless touloupes, and on the floor musty old clothes, moth-eaten furs, and sheep-skin coats that even a moujik of the swamps would not have deigned to wear.

Inside the backyard was a dead moujik which he is got run over by a train.

One day I chanced upon a book in the hands of a moujik, which treated of the harmfulness of alcohol.

Smolensk in Russia came nineteen peasants, moujiks who had been set upon by a mad wolf nineteen days before, and five of them were so terribly mangled they could not walk at all, and had to be taken to the Hotel Dieu.

The moujiks returned to Russia and were welcomed with the kind of awe that greets the return of hopeless sick ones who have been healed at some miraculous shrine.

The two moujiks followed the example of the master of the house, and fell down side by side on the ground.

I reproached him with being as womanish as we were in going down on his knees to the general behind Natacha and me, when it became necessary to kill all those poor moujiks of Presnia.

He had lands behind Nijni as vast as a province, and it would have been difficult to count the number of moujiks who worked for him on his property.

Everything enchanted him - the costume even of the moujiks, vivid blouses, the red shirts over the trousers, the full legs and the boots up to the knees, even the unfortunates who, in spite of the soft atmosphere, were muffled up in sheepskin coats, all impressed him favorably, everything appeared to him original and congenial.

The reporter watched fifty moujiks flat on their stomachs crawling up the ridge, behind two of their number whose heads alone topped the ridge.

All this time the watchers in the little eating-house could see the false moujiks, who had wriggled on their stomachs to the very edge of the ridge, holding themselves ready to spring.

Rouletabille turned his head at the sound of two moujiks who entered, carrying a long basket.

They were not real peasants, not true Russian moujiks, and their artificiality was all too apparent.