Short Fiction · Character
Ivan Jakovlevitch
A barber whose breakfast yields a severed nose, plunging him into a panic he cannot explain to anyone.
supporting
Also known as Jakovlevitch, Ivan
First appearance: The Nose
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The barber who finds Kovaloff's nose in his bread and attempts to dispose of it.
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He is a small tradesman in a bureaucratic city, a man of razors and routine who suddenly finds himself holding evidence he cannot account for. His terror is not guilt exactly but the dread of being blamed, of being…
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- Other
Character groups
- Comic and domestic characters
- Taras Bulba characters
- Mirgorod feud characters
- Nose and madness characters
- Viy story characters
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See Ivan Jakovlevitch in The Nose