Korobeinik (Russian: коробейник) was an occupation in the Russian Empire, a petty peddler. The name comes from the word korob, a box, in which he carried the goods, usually haberdashery and small manufactured items around the countryside.^[1]

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Thumb — *Ofenya-korobeinik*, Nikolay Koshelev, 1865

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