Dramatis personae, The State Counsellor, by Boris Akunin

A list of the characters I compiled for myself, because I was getting confused.



The State Counsellor

DRAMATIS PERSONAE



State Counsellor Erast Petrovich FANDORIN - Deputy for Special Assignments to His Excellency the Governor-General of Moscow


Prince Vladimir Andreevich DOLGORUKOI - long-standing Governor-General of Moscow


Frol Grigorievich VEDISHCHEV - the influential old personal servant of Prince Dolgorukoi


Adjutant General Ivan Fyodorovich KHRAPOV - a senior government official, travelling at the beginning of the story to his new appointment as governor-general of Siberia.


Staff Captain SEIDLITZ - an officer on the staff of Khrapov


Colonel Stanislav Filippovich SVERCHINSKY - acting commander of the Gendarmerie in Moscow


Lieutenant Colonel Pyotr Ivanovich BURLYAEV - the head of Moscow's Department for Public Security


Titular Counsellor Sergei Vitalievich ZUBTSOV -  the young senior operations officer for Burlyaev, having risen rapidly through the ranks.


Collegiate Assessor Evstratii Pavlovich MYLNIKOV 
(not to be confused with Melnikov, see below) -  one of Burlyaev's trusted men 


Colonel Prince Gleb Georgievich POZHARSKY - Deputy Director of the national Police Department, sent from the capital (i.e. St Petersburg), and is the aide-de-camp to the Emperor for the Ministry of the Interior


Esfir LITVINOVA - a rich, pretty, feisty subversive


Avessalom Efraimovich LITVINOV - father of the aforementioned, a very wealthy Jewish banker and philanthropist


"Needle" - a female party contact / courier / organizer


Diana - a mysterious anonymous informant with a veiled face


"Green", formerly Grigory GRINBERG - the determined and very effective leader of the Combat Group, of Jewish origin


"Rahmet" or "Gvidon", formerly Nikolai SELEZNIYOV - a prominent member of the Combat Group, a psychopath, a former junior officer of lancers who shot his own colonel


"Emelya" - a member of the Combat Group, of humble origins


"Bullfinch" - a member of the Combat Group, young and inexperienced, whom Green met when Bullfinch was a child exile in Switzerland; an unbaptized boy brought up by the party as his father had been executed and his mother had died as a prisoner on hunger strike


MELNIKOV - (not to be confused with Mylnikov, see above) a member of the party's Central Committee, the only one to know about Green, and the one through whom all Central Committee instructions would pass


"Ace" - a professional criminal 


Julie - a party activist with many male contacts, notably Green and Ace


TG - a mysterious individual or group assisting Green by way of anonymous messages, but whose identity is unknown to him


Semyon Lvovich ARONSON - a party sympathizer, willing to offer his home as a safe-house, a chemist


Engineer LARIONOV - a host for meetings of subversives, but secretly working for the police


Lieutenant SMOLYANINOV - a principled and conscientious young officer of gendarmes, who is keen to help Fandorin


Matvei ZHUKOV - a railway worker who provides his railwayman's hut for the use of revolutionaries

Lieutenant General SELIVANOV - a senior gendarme and potential target of the Combat Group


Timofei Grigorievich LOBASTOV - a rich, progressive factory owner who helps fund the party


ZIMIN - a barrister


Arsenii Nikolaevich ZIMIN - son of the aforementioned barrister

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