E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Tohin.
The military system adopted in the municipal and momestic regimen of Russia.
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“Peter the Great established what is here [in Russia] the ‘tchin,’ that is to say, he applied the military system to the general administration of the empire.”—De Custine: Russia, chap. vii.
