B 3ACTEHKE?

[Maria Dmytriyeva]

In a wider sense, it is just a prison, cf.  царские застенки. 
застенок — узилище, острог, тюрьма, кутузка, каменный мешок, темница, камера пыток, каталажка (Источник: Словарь русских синонимов )  

MD

> Colleagues:
> I just got a query from the manager of one of the Jewish genealogy 
> lists regarding a translation being done
> of some archival material i Kaunas.  The translator translated "v 
> zastenke" as "in the torture chamber" followed
> by a place name.  I could not find zastenok in online Dal', and of 
> course in my Ozhegov it seems to mean more or
> less that.  But the gentleman who sent the query and I are both sceptical.
> I assume this is a 19th Century record, what could it be?  Could it 
> have just meant something like "punishment cell"
> in a prison?
> Jules Levin
> PS  Don't let the "Cyrillic" on the subject line fool you.  I cannot 
> write Cyrillic in eudora--it was cleverly made entirely
> from the Latin keyboard.  So please transliterate if you cite from a 
> Russian source.
> 
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