pood

The tobacco of Russia is mild, and of inferior flavor, and brings from 40 to 80 kopecks per pood.

Although this was difficult from the want of instruments, I succeeded in collecting more than a pood (thirty-six pounds) of hair.

Ivan went home and said to his father, “Father, make me another mace, a ten pood one.”

From one pood of dirt, of course unusually rich, Mr. Kaporaki obtained 24 zolotniks, or three ounces of gold.

The teams belong to peasants, who carry freight for a stipulated sum per pood.