zemstvo

• zempstwo
• zemstwo

From Russian зе́мство (zémstvo), from земля́ (zemljá, “land, country”).

• (UK) enPR: zĕmsʹtvo, IPA^(key): /ˈzɛmstvəʊ/

zemstvo (plural zemstvos or zemstva)

1. (now historical) A Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.
   • 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society 2013, p. 52:

     Two of Alexander III's counter-reforms, in 1890 and 1892, greatly increased the governors' powers over the zemstvos and municipal bodies.

• zemstvoist

• “‖zemstvo” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

From Russian

zemstvo m (plural zemstvos)

1. zemstvo

From Russian земство (zemstvo).

zemstvo c

1. a zemstvo, a regional and local representation in Russia, introduced by a decree in 1864

• landsting (regional representation in Sweden, introduced in 1863)

• Ryssland in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1916)
• Zemstvo in Tidens Lexikon (1926)