1. a Russian peasant, especially one of the former serf class
Usage: historical; also spelled muzhik

Examples

• The novel depicts the life of a moujik working the land in 19th-century Russia.
• Tolstoy's stories often featured the struggles of the Russian moujik.
• After the emancipation, many moujiks gained their freedom from serfdom.
• The moujik was bound to the estate and had few rights under the old system.