![]() She is very inquisitive, and displays now and then a vain disposition. His wife, still tolerably young, and a provincial coquette, brought up on novels and albums and household trivialities. He is dressed in uniform with loops and facings, and wears Hessian boots with spurs.ĪNNA ANDREYEVNA. His coarse and ill-educated nature causes him to pass with rapidity from fear to joy, and from servility to arrogance. ![]() His features are harsh and stern, like those of a chinovnik who has worked his way up from the lowest rank. He speaks to the point, generally avoiding extremes, but sometimes launching into an argument. He wears an air of dignified respectability, but is by no means incorruptible. A man who has grown old in the State service in his own opinion, a smart official. (Osip and Mishka are nicknames.) The full names of nearly all the characters occur either in the text or the notes. The surnames only of the rest, who are of lower social standing, are given. Khlestakov's name is, however, retained in full. ![]() ![]() In order to simplify for English readers the somewhat formidable cast, the surnames of the first eight characters are omitted, as they would not be used in familiar intercourse. Gentlemen and ladies, guests, merchants, citizens, and petitioners. ( Chastni Prisiav, or Police-Commissary.) Published by Good Press, 4064066466794 Table of ContentsĪNTON ANTONOVICH, Governor of a Russian provincial town.ĪRTEMI PHILIPPOVICH, Charity Commissioner and Warden of the Hospital. ![]()
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