Meshok

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The Meschok ( Russian мешок ; literally sack ) was a Russian measure of volume that was used as a measure of weight for flour and groats . It was a so-called sack .

literature

  • Johann Gottlieb Georgi: Attempt to describe the Russian imperial residence city of St. Petersburg and the peculiarities of the area. Carl Wilhelm Müller, St. Petersburg 1790, p. 210.
  • Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 5, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1800, p. 1141.