Dead Souls · Character
Ivan Antonovitch
A minor official in the town administration who processes documents.
minor
First appearance: part i i
Ivan Antonovitch's tie to Chichikov is one of the pressures that moves Dead Souls—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
The clerk in charge of serf affairs, known as 'pitcher-mug,' who handles Chichikov's paperwork.
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Officials and ruined landowners
- Protagonist
- Miser and his household
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professional · ambivalent
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- Chichikov
professional · ambivalent
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See Ivan Antonovitch in part i i