Интеллигентный

Intelligentny is a multi-faceted adjective my mother likes to use to characterize people. It is a salad mix of education, culture, intelligence, and manners, plus a certain view of the world that allows an alternative. The Commissar, who yelled at my mother for breaking a military rule, was obviously not intelligentny. The head of the hospital, who colluded with her in rule-breaking, certainly was.

—Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 138.