# Anna Andreyevna — The Inspector General character guide

> Anna Andreyevna in The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Anna, Anna Andreyevna

**First appearance:** 0003-act-i

## Who they are

The governor's wife, giddy for big-city manners and young men, who reads every glance from the supposed inspector as a conquest.

## Relationships

### [Marya Antonovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inspector_general_se/characters/marya_antonovna)

_family_

Anna is Marya's mother, but she is jealous of her daughter's youth and competes with her for Khlestakov's attention, showing a toxic maternal dynamic.

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