Dramatis personae, The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin

A list of the characters for those who, like me, get a little confused with all the names.


The Winter Queen
or
Azazel


DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Collegiate Registrar Erast Petrovich FANDORIN, a young new employee of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police

Pyotr Alexandrovich KOKORIN, a student who kills himself in the park

Nikolai Stepanich AKHTYRTSEV, an acquaintance and rival of Pyotr Kokorin

Elizaveta VON EVERT-KOLOKOLTSEVA, a witness to the suicide of the above

Lady ASTAIR, a philanthropist who runs charitable institutions for children, including the Moscow Astair House

Superintendent Xavier Feofilaktovich GRUSHIN, a senior detective of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police

 Ivan Prokofievich - a "scrawny, lanky veteran" of the police

Amalia Kazirimovna BEZHETSKAYA, or "Cleopatra", a sensuous dark-haired woman

Count Hippolyte Alexandrovich ZUROV, a hot-headed and confrontational officer of hussars, on permanent leave

Anton Ivanovich, a member of Amalia's entourage

Adjutant General Lavrentii Arkadievich MIZINOV (in some versions Lavrenty), chief of the Special Corps of Gendarmes and head of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (i.e. the tsar's state security investigation department) 

State Counsellor Ivan Franzevich BRILLING, a special assignments officer for Adjutant General Mizinov, a detective familiar with the latest investigative techniques, sent from the capital (St. Petersburg)

Gerald CUNNINGHAM, a teacher at the Moscow Astair House

Professor BLANK, a German surgeon linked with Lady Astair

Agrafena KONDRIATEVNA, Fandorin's landlady

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