Stephen Alley — Member of the British Intelligence Mission in Petrograd.
Alexander Balk — Governor of Petrograd.
Sir George Buchanan — British Ambassador to Petrograd.
Byzhinski — Prince Yusupov’s butler.
Mansfield Cumming — Known as ‘C’, Head of MI1c, the British Secret Service.
Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna — Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich’s surrogate mother.
David Lloyd George — Britain’s Secretary of State for War after Kitchener’s death in June 1916.
Maria (Mounya) Golovina — Mutual friend of Rasputin and Prince Yusupov.
Sir Samuel Hoare — Head of the British Intelligence Mission in Petrograd.
Bishop Iliodor — See Sergei Trufanov.
Lord Kitchener — Britain’s Secretary of State for War 1914–16.
Vera Koralli — Celebrated Russian ballerina and mistress of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.
Professor Kossorotov — Russian pathologist who undertook the original post mortem of Rasputin’s body.
Stanislaus Lazovert — The medical doctor of Purish-kevich’s military detachment, recruited by Purishkevich to drive on the night of Rasputin’s murder.
Robert H. Bruce Lockhart — British consular officer in Moscow.
A.A. Makarov — Minister of Justice, formerly Minister of the Interior.
Ivan Manasevich Manuilov — Jewish journalist, spy and double agent, ‘secretary’ to Rasputin.
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich — Princess Irina Yusupova’s father and Prince Yusupov’s father-in-law. Also a relative of Dmitri Pavlovich.
Ivan Nefedov — Prince Yusupov’s batman.
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaivich — Tsar Nicholas’s uncle and Supreme Commander of the Russian Armies until relieved of his post.
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich — Tsar Nicholas’s second cousin and one-time protégé; friend of Prince Yusupov who was present at the murder of Rasputin.
Lt-Col. Popel — Officer of the Detached Gendarme Corps and General Popov’s right-hand man.
General Popov — Commander-in-Chief of the Corps of Gendarmes and chief investigator of Rasputin’s disappearance.
Alexander Protopopov — Russian Minister of the Interior.
Vladimir Purishkevich — Monarchist and well-known Member of the Duma. An enemy of Rasputin and present at his murder.
Maria Rasputina — Rasputin’s elder daughter.
Varvara Rasputina — Rasputin’s younger daughter.
Oswald Rayner — Member of the British Intelligence Mission in Petrograd.
Mikhail Rodzyanko — Speaker of the Third and Fourth Dumas.
John Scale — Member of the British Intelligence Mission in Petrograd.
Aron Simanovich — Rasputin’s close friend, secretary and agent.
Hon. Albert Stopford — British businessman and diplomat.
Sergei Sukhotin — Military lieutenant and friend of Yusupov. Present on the night of the murder.
Sergei Trufanov — Also known as Bishop Iliodor. Notorious Orthodox preacher, anti-Semite and former friend of Rasputin who stole letters from the monk’s home in Siberia.
Alexis Vasiliev — Chief of Police in Petrograd.
Anna Vyrubova — Lady-in-waiting and close friend of the Tsarina.
Robert Wilton — The Times’s correspondent in Petrograd at the time of the murder.
Grand Duchess Xenia — Princess Irina Yusupova’s mother and Prince Yusupov’s mother-in-law.
Prince Felix Yusupov — Also Count Sumarokov-Elston, Russian aristocrat and self-confessed assassin of Rasputin.
Princess Irina Yusupova — Prince Yusupov’s wife.