Byzantium Endures

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski (Dimitri Mitrofanovitch Kryscheff) - Narrator

Yelisaveta Filipovna - His mother

Captain Brown - A Scottish engineer

Esmé Loukianoff - A friend

Zoyea - A gypsy girl

Professor Lustgarten - A schoolmaster

Frau Lustgarten - His wife

Sarkis Mihailovitch Kouyoumdjian - An Armenian engineer

Alexander (‘Shura’) - Maxim’s cousin

Evgenia Mihailovna (Aunt Genia) - Maxim’s great-aunt

Wanda - Her poor relation

Semyon Josefovitch (Uncle Semya) - Maxim’s great-uncle

Esau - Slobodka tavern-keeper

Misha the Jap - Slobodka gangster

Victor the Fiddler

Isaac Jacobovitch

Little Grania - Denizens of Esau’s tavern

Boris - The Accountant

Lyova

M. Savitsky - A drug-trafficker

Katya - A young whore

Katya’s mother - A whore

H. Cornelius - A dentist

Honoria Cornelius - An English adventuress

‘So-So’ - A Georgian revolutionary

Nikita the Greek - Maxim’s friend

Mr Finch - An Irish sailor

Sergei Andreyovitch Tsipliakov (‘Seryozha’) - A ballet dancer

Marya Varvorovna Vorotinsky - A student

Miss Buchanan - Her ‘nanyana’

Mr Green - Uncle Semya’s agent in St Petersburg

Mr Parrot - His assistant

Madame Zinovieff - Maxim’s landlady in St Petersburg

Olga and Vera - Her daughters

Dr Matzneff - Tutor at the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute

Professor Merkuloff - Another tutor

Hippolyte - A catamite

Count Nicholai Feodorovitch Petroff (‘Kolya’) - A Petersburg bohemian

Lunarcharsky - A Bolshevik

Mayakovski - A poet

‘Lolly’ Leonovna Petroff - Kolya’s cousin

Alexei Leonovitch Petroff - Her brother

Elena Andreyovna Vlasenkova (‘Lena’) - Marya’s flat-mate

Professor Vorsin - Head of the Polytechnic

Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskya - A puppet dictator

Ataman Semyon Petlyura - Effective leader of Ukrainian Nationalists

General Konovalets - Commander of the ‘Sich Riflemen’

Vinnichenko - Ukrainian Nationalist leader

Potoaki - Ukrainian Bolshevik

Marusia Kirillovna - Ukrainian Bolshevik

Sotnik (Captain) Grishenko - Hrihorieff officer (Cossack)

Sotnik (Captain) Yermeloff - The same

Stoichko - Cossack officer

Brodmann - Socialist ‘liaison officer’

Nestor Makhno - Anarchist leader

Captain Kulomsin - A White infantry officer

Captain Wallace - Australian tank commander

Major Perezharoff - A White commander

A Jewish journalist In Arcadia

Madame Zoyea - An hotelier

Captain Yosetroff - White Intelligence officer

Major Soldatoff - Maxim’s CO

Chief Engineer of the Rio Cruz - A fellow spirit

OTHER CHARACTERS INCLUDE

Korylenko (a postman); Captain Bikadorov (a Cossack); whores and entertainers in Odessa; whores, entertainers and artists in St Petersburg; revolutionaries in St Petersburg; Cossacks (Red, Black, White); policemen, Chekists, naval officers, army officers, ‘Haidamaki’ soldiers, beggars, a drunken couple, the Jews of a shtetl near Hulyai-Polye, the inhabitants of a village in the Ukrainian steppe, and, off-stage, Leon Trotsky, Deniken, Krassnoff, Ulyanski, Prince Lvov, Kerenski, Putilov, Josef Stalin, Stolypin, Lenin, Antonov, sikorski, savinkoff, catherine cornelius, H. G. wells.