Kibitka of Teke people
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A kibitka (Russian: кибитка, from the Arabic "kubbat" - dome) is a pastoralist yurt of late-19th-century Kyrgyz and Kazakh nomads.[1]

Aleksander Orlowski, "Traveler in a kibitka"
19th-century prison van known in Polish as kibitka

The word also refers to a Russian type of carriage[2] or sleigh.

The kibitka uses the same equipage as the troika but, unlike the troika, is larger and usually closed. In Russian literature and folklore, kibitka is a term used mainly for Gypsy wagons. During the Russian Empire, its use to deport disgraced noblemen led to the German-language term kibitkenjustiz ("kibitka justice").[3]

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Sources

  1. ↑ "Toponymy of the Ancient Sary-Arka (North-Eastern Kazakhstan)".
  2. ↑ Kibitka Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, vol. 10, Leipzig 1907, p. 880, in German.
  3. ↑ Kibitka Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, vol. 10, Leipzig 1907, p. 880, in German - "Auf solchen Kibitken wurden früher mißliebige Standespersonen in die Länder am Ural gebracht, daher der Ausdruck Kibitkenjustiz."
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