PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

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.

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