Three-horse sleigh

Usage examples of troika.

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.

He had one once, at the edge of town, but he sold it and used the money to buy a troika of bay horses and a small britzka, in which he drove around visiting landowners.

The troika raced down a dark avenue, raced quickly, and the excited outrunner kicked the front of the sleigh.

Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.

Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.

Mead and qvass flowed in the very streets, and the castle trumpets could not be heard for the sound of troikas and balalaikas.

The Tricameron was comprised of a "Senate"—evenly divided against itself into a half that proposed and passed legislation, and a half that vetoed it—and a "Praetorate," a sort of quadruple troika or duodecimvirate: twelve men and women who implemented the Senate's decrees, declared war or peace, and (it seemed to Jim) spent most of the time squabbling amongst themselves for power.

The people trudged through fresh-fallen snow, or walked gliding and skidding over packed old snow and glare ice, or substituted troika sleighs for their carriages, to get to the Esplan&aacute.