Short, thin, even sickly build. Light brown, slightly wavy hair combed back but often falling onto his forehead. Pale face with sharp cheekbones, deep-set gray-blue eyes that look with heaviness, intensity, and strange warmth simultaneously. Small beard and mustache. Dressed modestly but neatly: dark frock coat, high boots, neck scarf, cane (inside — a hidden narrow knife for self-defense). Thin fingers, sometimes trembling — a consequence of epilepsy