Chapters 25 and 26 Summary

In Chapter 25, Sasha hides in the biology lab. He is sure the guards are looking for him. He plans to run to the gym and exit there. Suddenly, there is a nasally voice. He turns to see Stalin's nose sitting on a chair, dressed as a comrade and smoking a pipe! The nose tells him that he's been naïve and careless. The nose tells him to renounce his father. Sasha asks the nose what his father is accused of. The nose responds that he's being interrogating and is getting ready to confess. Sasha claims that his father is innocent. The nose tells him that the guards in Lubyanka know how to make people confess. The nose warns Sasha to renounce his father. Forget about him - he'll never see him again.

In Chapter 26, when Sasha returns to class, Miss Petrovna...