The Inspector General · Character
Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky
A town squire whose breathless gossip helps spark the inspector panic, forever tagging after Bobchinsky with news he can barely contain.
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Also known as Dobchinsky, Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky
First appearance: scene i
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Dobchinsky is one half of the town's most excitable pair of landowners, bursting into drawing rooms to announce that a terrifying personage has arrived from St. Petersburg. He is a man of frayed nerves and borrowed…
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