person
Ochumelov
also: Очумелов
The district police superintendent whose ruling on a stray dog's fate reverses again and again as rumor shifts about who owns it -- the eponymous "chameleon" of the story's title.
Reading notes
- The Chameleon §1 Ochumelov
The district police superintendent whose verdict on the stray dog flips with every rumor of who owns it -- the story's title character and the source of its name, "The Chameleon."