Collegiate assessor in Russian literature

* Alexander Pushkin, in an epigram on Alexander I dating to the first half of the 1820s, wrote of the tsar: "the hero has wearied of the front -- / Now he is a collegiate assessor / In the department of foreign affairs!" Since the preceding lines describe "our tsar" as a dashing captain, the implication is that the emperor received a promotion upon transferring to a different