verstaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

versta (plural verstas or versty)

1. Alternative form of verst
   • 1985, Dinah Dean, chapter 2, in The River of Time, [United States]: Cover & Page, published 2022, →ISBN:

     The new and, to Mila, welcome détente almost came to an untimely end in Torzhok, where Varya insisted on stopping for ‘an hour or so’ to buy gloves, boots and slippers from the famous leather-workers of the town, despite Maxim’s terse remark that they were still about 60 versty from Tver, where the jäger had recommended they stay for dinner and lodging.

   • 1997, Abby M. Schrader, “Containing the Spectacle of Punishment: The Russian Autocracy and the Abolition of the Knout, 1817–1845”, in Slavic Review, volume 56, numbers 3–4, Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640:

     The law mandated that provincial authorities resettle those who had committed a criminal offense 60 versty (63.6 kilometers) from the nearest provincial city, while it allowed free volunteers to return home, but only under guard.

   • 1999, Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, translated by Joseph T. Fuhrmann, The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914–March 1917, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 377:

     We arrived at another village, this is 8 versty [1 versta = 3500 ft.] to the southwest—it is more convenient for us here because we are stationed alone[, i.e., apart from the other units in this area] and are all together, and there are 2 companions there and machine guns are placed every 3 and 6 versty.

   • 2025, Alexander Wolfheze, “Russia”, in A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book III: Into The Abyss, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Armies and Navies), page 451:

     [A]s soon as one travelled more than a hundred versty from any of [the] country’s larger cities, all political issues simply vanished into utter silence.