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In particular, he admires the police in uniform, even as he imagines his arrest. Despite his low standing in Russian society, though, Ivan Yakovlevich demonstrates an odd reverence for elite men, and particularly the sumptuous clothes they wear. Ivan Yakovlevich's poor conditions also reflect on his outward appearance: his coat is in poor shape, and his hands are filthy.
He thus sits below men like Kovalev and the police officers. In this vein, Ivan Yakovlevich represents the working-class men in Russia who fail to obtain any position in the Table of Ranks, Russia's social hierarchy. The narrator introduces Yakovlevich as a man who has lost his name in two ways: figuratively from poverty and literally as his name faded from the rundown sign outside his barbershop. In this section, he finds and attempts to dispose of Kovalev's nose, which inexplicably appeared in the barber’s breakfast.
Drunk barber Ivan Yakovlevich, Praskovya Osipovna’s husband, is the central character in the first of the story's three sections.
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