# Marya Antonovna — The Inspector General character guide

> Marya Antonovna in The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Marya, Marya Antonovna

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

## Who they are

The governor's marriageable daughter, caught between her mother's rivalry and her own certainty that the visiting dignitary keeps looking at her.

## Relationships

### [Anna Andreyevna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inspector_general_se/characters/anna_andreyevna)

_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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