After interrupting a figure at prayer, a character in a story by this author smiles at a slim girl before bursting into tears. The godparents of a protagonist created by this author read off names from a calendar until his mother settles on naming him after his father. A character created by this author is caught with a false passport trying to escape to Riga in a stagecoach. In a story by this author, a “prominent personage” refuses to help the protagonist (10[1])track down a stolen item he paid Petrovich 150 rubles for. The title feature (-5[1])of a story by this author is found by the barber Yakovlevitch in a loaf of bread after it detaches from Kovalyov’s (10[1])face. For 10 points, name this author of “The Nose” (10[1])and (10[1])“The Overcoat.” ■END■ (10[1]0[4])