# The Headmaster — The Little Demon character guide

> The Headmaster in The Little Demon by Fyodor Sologub.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0006-i

## Snapshot

The school's chief authority, whose bureaucratic vanity and petty tyrannies make him a perfect specimen of the provincial official Sologub skewers.

## Who they are

He presides over the school where Peredonov teaches, wielding his small power with the self-importance typical of the town's functionaries. His relationship to Peredonov is one of mutual suspicion and rank-consciousness, each man measuring the other by promotion and favour. He matters because he anchors the novel's satire of institutional life, showing how authority in this world is less about guidance than about vanity and fear.

## In the story

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_demon_se/chapters/xx)

Summons Peredonov, reprimands him for visiting students' homes and the club incident, suggests he leave the school.

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