Hofkriegsrat
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The Hofkriegsrat was the Court Council of War of the Habsburg Monarchy. In Tolstoy's War and Peace, a retired Russian officer (Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonski) calls it the Hofs-kriegs-Wurst-Schnapps-Rath, in honor of the staff's favorite fare.