mujik

musikka A peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. (defdate)
*1954, (w), A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 361:

Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.

A few days later I had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.