Versta vs Verst - What's the difference?
versta | verst |
A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile.
* 1849 , "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):
* 1910 , , "Reginald in Russia", Reginald in Russia :
* 1918 , (Aylmer and Louise Maude), trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina , Oxford 1998, p. 604:
* 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :