troika

noun2

1. •
   A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.

   • When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth. — 1960
2. •
   A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.

   • The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death. — 1981