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1866, Henry Morley, Sketches of Russian Life Before and During the Emancipation of the Serfs, Chapman and Hall, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:In Tula I saw the usual abundance of churches and popes (priests), barracks and soldiers, merchants and hucksters, peasants in dirty sheep-skin coats, officers and gospodins in uniform driving in stylish equipages drawn by fast trotters from the steppes, or cobs from Siberia.
2004, Nicolas Slonimsky, Nicolas Slonimsky: Russian and Soviet music and composers (Nicolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music ; Edited by Electra Slonomsky Yourke), Psychology Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 196:I was addressed as a comrade only when someone did not realize I was not a Soviet citizen. Otherwise I was a gospodin.