Dedicated to the two most distinguished Persian prime ministers of the late nineteenth century:
Mirza Abolghasem Ghaemmagham Farahani
and
Mirza Tagi Khan Amir Kabir
The shah
Mahdolia, mother of the shah
Taj Olsultan, daughter of the shah
Mirza Kabir, the grand vizier, the prime minister
Sheikh Aqasi, the shah’s spiritual vizier
Jamal Khan, leader of the resistance group
Mirza Reza, Jamal Khan’s right-hand man