Dramatis Personae

• Anton Antonovich Skvoznik Dmukhanovsky, the governor

• Anna Andreyevna, his wife

• Marya Antonovna, his daughter

• Luka Lukich Khlopov, the inspector of schools

• His wife

• Ammos Fiodorovich Liapkin-Tiapkin, the judge

• Artemy Filippovich Zemlianika, the superintendent of charities

• Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin, the postmaster

• Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky,

  & Piotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky,

  country squires

• Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, an official from St. Petersburg

• Osip, his servant

• Christian Ivanovich Hübner, the district doctor

• Fiodr Andreyevich Luliukov,

  Ivan Lazarevich Rastakovsky,

  & Stepan Ivanovich Korobkin,

  ex-officials, esteemed personages of the town

• Liuliukov, Korobkin’s wife

• Stepan Ilyich Ukhovertov, the police captain

• Svistunov,

  Pugovitzyn,

  & Derzhimorda,

  police sergeants

• Abdulin, a merchant

• Fevronya Petrova Poshliopkina, the locksmith’s wife

• Ivanova, the widow of a noncommissioned officer

• Mishka, the governor’s servant

• Servant at the inn

• Guests, merchants, citizens, and petitioners