Meet the Cast
Collegiate Assessor Kovalev
Do you like how we gave Kovalev his title? Yeah, he'd like that, too. A civil servant of middling rank, Kovalev is a status-obsessed man who one day wakes up with his nose missing.The Insecure Snob...
The Nose
Admit it: noses are hilarious. They're probably the weirdest of any of our facial features (expect maybe eyebrows), just hanging out in the middle of our faces being all big and runny. No wonder Ko...
Ivan Yakovlevitch, the Barber
Does the barber even feel like a character that belongs in this story? Sure, his little domestic squabble with his wife over the nose they find in a breakfast roll intros the main narrative. And hi...
Newspaper Advertising Clerk
Let's hear it for freedom of the press: the clerk is probably the most sensible guy in the whole story. When Kovalev tries to place an ad, the clerk attempts at first to make heads or tails out of...
Madame Podtochina
Ok, she's really more of a plot point than an actual character in the story. The mom of the girl that Kovalev has been flirting with but not proposing marriage to (back in the day when you didn't m...