# Shabalov — The Created Legend character guide

> Shabalov in The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Inspector Shabalov, Leonty Andreyevitch Shabalov

**First appearance:** 0018-xvii

## Who they are

A police inspector investigating revolutionary activities.

## In the story

### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxix)

The Inspector of National Schools, a crude and uneducated bureaucrat who insists on formal examinations and certificates.

### [The Vice-Governor's Visit and the Plot Against Trirodov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxx)

Inspector, arrives early to fawn on Zinaida Doulebova; speaks with quiet joy about birching.

### [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxxi)

Inspector Shabalov, shouts at a boy, calls him an idiot, and is part of the visiting party.

### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxxii)

Assists in the examination, mocks the students' answers, and supports Doulebov's criticisms.

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