pre-revolutionary russian

• село́

  village

  A large peasant settlement is an economic and administrative center for the surrounding villages (in pre-revolutionary Russia a church was also a mandatory part of such a settlement).

• дореволюцио́нный

  pre-revolutionary

• уе́зд

  county or district

  In pre-revolutionary Russia and in the USSR before the zoning of 1924-29 an administrative-territorial unit that was part of the province

• чино́вничество

  (pre-revolutionary) officialdom/the officials

• политкаторжа́нин

  pre-revolutionary political convict