sazhen

sazhen englanniksi

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

2. (quote-book) J(quote-gloss) Hogarth|title=Rasputin|series=Continental Fiction|volume=1|location=New York, N.Y.&59; London|publisher=A. Knopf|Alfred A(quote-gloss) Knopf|year=1929|page=169|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-t5KAAAAMAAJ&q=sazheni|passage=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; (..)

3. (quote-book)

4. 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)