# Ivan Jakovlevitch — Short Fiction character guide

> Ivan Jakovlevitch in Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jakovlevitch, Ivan

**First appearance:** 0040-the-nose

## Snapshot

A barber whose breakfast yields a severed nose, plunging him into a panic he cannot explain to anyone.

## Who they are

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 crushed by forces far above his station. His discovery sets the whole absurd machinery of the nose story in motion, making him the reluctant hinge on which everything turns.

## In the story

### [The Nose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/the-nose)

The barber who finds Kovaloff's nose in his bread and attempts to dispose of it.

### [The Nose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/i)

The barber who finds the nose in his bread and tries to get rid of it.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/iii)

The barber, timidly enters to shave Kovaloff, carefully avoiding the newly returned nose.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned in connection with the nose found in a baked loaf.

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