In a story by this author, a character paints “beauties” for a Persian shopkeeper in exchange for opium to cure his insomnia. No one attends the funeral of an artist, who cuts his throat (10[1])with a razor after a prostitute declines his marriage proposal, in a story (10[1])by this author. A story by this author ends with a policeman following a giant-fisted ghost until it confronts him. A “certain clerk” from a (10[1])“certain department” (10[1])develops a delirious fever after being berated by a “Person of Consequence” in a story by this author. The title object is wrapped in cloth and thrown off the St. Isaac’s Bridge (10[1])in a story by this author before it is found in a loaf of bread by a barber. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this author, whose many stories set in St. Petersburg (10[1])include “Nevsky Prospekt,” “The Nose,” and “The Overcoat.” (10[1]0[2])■END■