The Inspector General · Character
Artemy Filippovich Zemlianika
The smooth-tongued charities superintendent who feeds Khlestakov gossip about his colleagues, hoping to buy safety with other people's secrets.
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Also known as Artemy Filippovich, Artemy, Zemlianika
First appearance: scene i
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Zemlianika runs the town's charitable institutions and presents himself as a model of enlightened administration, though his hospitals are as dubious as his morals. His instinct when threatened is to ingratiate and…
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