# Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky — The Inspector General character guide

> Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky in The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dobchinsky, Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky

**First appearance:** 0004-scene-i

## Snapshot

A town squire whose breathless gossip helps spark the inspector panic, forever tagging after Bobchinsky with news he can barely contain.

## Who they are

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 courage, forever seconding Bobchinsky's guesses about rank and importance while privately fearing he will be ruined. His rush to spread the news sets the whole machinery of mistaken identity in motion, making him the spark that ignites the town's hysteria.

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