![]() ![]() He began to take an interest in Ivan during their days in the camp at Ust-Izhma. He manages to get the best quotas and work assignments for his men. A big, tough man who has already spent nineteen years in prison camps and who knows all the rules and all the ruses. Tyurin The boss of Ivan's "gang," or work brigade. Personal acquaintances would use the first name, plus the patronymic (Ivan Denisovich), as the title of the book suggests, and very good friends might use the first name, or a diminutive of it - that is, Ivan or Vanya. His last name is reserved for use by the bureaucracy, and in the novel, only the prison authorities apply it to the main character. Given above is his full name, which consists of his first name (Ivan), his patronymic (Denisovich=son of Denis), and his last name (Shukhov). He has been sentenced to ten years of hard labor and has spent the past eight years in a number of prison labor camps. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov Prisoner S-854, who is the protagonist and focal point of the novel.
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