one more question on kukharka

[simon.krysl at DUKE.EDU]

Dear friends and colleagues,
Many thanks for the response on Lenin's ,,kukharka." I have merely one,
complementary, question, regarding the word itself. Does kukharka refer
exclusively to a servant - and thus becoming, perhaps, often a word for a
kitchen maid, perhaps with derogatory overtones? It seems to be heavily
gender-marked: there is (according to my dictionary) no kukhar- just povar, or
shef. Is there a difference between kukharka and povarikha -today or earlier
in the 20th century?
Many apologies for bothering with what may well be a silly query (or one to
which I should know the answer) - and many, many thanks
Sincerely yours,
Simon Krysl
Duke University / Prague

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