One character created by this author runs his office by the motto, "Strictness, strictness, and again strictness!"
One character created by this author runs his office by the motto, "Strictness, strictness, and again strictness!" Mrs. Podtochin is accused of witchcraft in another story by this man that opens with Ivan Yakovlevich finding an object that belongs to Major Kovalyov in a loaf of bread. He also wrote a story in which the Very Important Person is attacked by a ghost after the death of Akaky Akakievich. For 10 points, name this author of "Nevsky Prospect," "The Overcoat," and "The Nose."
One character created by this author runs his office by the motto, "Strictness, strictness, and again strictness!"
Nikolai Gogol