Meaning of sazhen | Babel Free

Definitions

A unit of length formerly used in Russia, equal to seven feet (just over two meters).

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Examples

“For how if he were to end⟳ by getting drowned? True, the river’s normal level lay⟳ four sazheni down—the remembrance of that (for he had often descended thither to draw⟳ water) comforted him for a moment; […]”

“Although in his diary he listed its intended dimensions as 200 by 100 sazheni (1400 x 700 ft.), the resulting structure⟳ probably measured only 818.75 x 425.75 feet (230 x 130m).”

“1995: And it will not yield⟳ more than ten sazhens of wood to the desyatina…and he is paying me at the rate of two hundred roubles. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 166)”

“In 1883, peasant representatives from two villages in Voronezh Province petitioned the governor, detailing their hardships. In 1863 they had chosen to receive⟳ gratuitous allotments that amounted to a minuscule 2,080 sazheni (86.7 percent of one desiatina) per soul; since then, however, population growth had reduced their allotment size by more than one-half, to eight hundred sazheni per soul.”

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