| | | | Part I |
| 1 | | | Rosie |
| | Alexey | Ivanov | A Russian award-winning writer. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | Former Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| | Rosemary | White | A post-graduate from Oxford. aka: Rosie/Raisa. |
| | Richard | | Rosie's fiancé. |
| | Mikhail | Gorbachev | Former President of the Soviet Union. |
| | Charlotte | | Richard's grandmother. |
| | Zoya | | Rosie's sister. |
| | Katerina | Simanova | Rosie's mother. |
| | Henry | | Richard's brother. |
| | Olivia | | Henry's long-time girlfriend. |
| 2 | | | Valentine |
| | Valentin | Andreyev | A great Bolshevik orator. |
| | Dmitry | Lulikov | A factory owner. |
| | Viktoria | | One of Valentin's friends. aka: Vika. |
| | Maksim | | One of Valentin's friends. |
| | Antonina | Nikolayevna | Dmitry Lulikov's wife. aka: Tonya. |
| | Gochkin | | A factory foreman. |
| 3 | | | Antonina |
| | Anastasia | Sergeyevna | Tonya's mother-in-law. |
| | Mitya | | A servant. |
| | Olenka | | A lady's maid. |
| | Alexander | Pushkin | Russian poet, playwright and novelist. |
| | Ivan | Turganev | Russian novelist, short story writer and poet. |
| | Anton | Chekhov | Russian playwright and short story writer. |
| | Natalya F. | Burtsinova | Heiress and socialite. Dmitry Lulikov's close friend. |
| | Nelly | | Tonya's dearest friend. |
| | Kirill | | Nelly's husband. |
| 4 | | | Rosie |
| | Lev | | A driver. Rosie's chaperon. |
| | Alexey | Alexeyevich | Second son and heir of Tsar Alexis of Russia. |
| 5 | | | Valentin |
| | Pavel | Katenin | A revolutionary writer. |
| 6 | | | Antonina |
| | Nadia | Kirov | A Soviet Major in the army of
the USSR. |
| | Alexander | Radishchev | Russian author and social critic. |
| | Vladimir | Lenin | Soviet Union's Chairman
- the council of People's Commissars. |
| | Nikolai | Chernyshevsky | Russian literary and social critic. |
| 7 | | | Rosie |
| | Leo | Tolstoy | Russian writer. |
| | Mikhail | Kutuzov | Russian military officer. |
| | Prince Andrei | | Prince of Russia. |
| | Guy | Fawkes | A member of a group of provincial English Catholics. |
| 8 | | | Valentin |
| | Alexander III | | Former Emperor of Russia. |
| | Nicholas III | | Former Emperor of Russia. |
| 9 | | | Antonina |
| | Akulina | | Natalya Burtsinova's daughter. |
| 13 | | | Rosie |
| | Eduard S. | Rayevsky | A doll maker. |
| 14 | | | Antonina |
| | Sery | | A cat. |
| | Lena | | Tonya's daughter. |
| | Sasha | Ozhereliev | Tonya's new acquaintance |
| 16 | | | Rosie |
| | Pyotr Ilyich | Tchaikovsky | A Russian composer. |
| | | | Part II |
| 17 | | | Antonina |
| | Fedya | | Natalya's son. |
| 21 | | | Rosie |
| | Felix | Dzerzhinsky | Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. |
| | David | Antonovich | Worked at the human rights organization Memorial. |
| | Leonid | Brezhnev | Former Gen. Sec. of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| | Marina | Katenin | Viktoria's daughter-in-law. |
| | Mikhail | | Marina Katenin's husband. |
| | | | Part III |
| 23 | | | Antonina |
| | Adolf | Hitler | The leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Annushka | | A maid. |
| 25 | | | Antonina |
| | Katya | | Tonya's daughter. |
| | Misha | | Tonya's son. |
| | Comrade | Kemenova | Tonya's neighbor. |
| | Maxim | Gorky | Russian Soviet writer. |
| 26 | | | Valentin |
| | Nikita | Krylov | Ukrainian-Russian mixed martial artist. |
| 27 | | | Rosie |
| | Gennady | Yanayev | Former President of the Soviet Union. |
| | Boris | Yeltsin | Former President of Russia. |
| | Marina | Petrovna | Princess of Russia. |
| | | | Part IV |
| 28 | | | Katya |
| | Dasha | | One of Katya's schoolmates. |
| | Vitya | | One of Katya's schoolmates. |
| | Vladimir | Stolypin | Tonya's editor. |
| | Anna | | Vladimir Stolypin's wife. |
| | Anatoly | Radakov | Katya's father. |
| 34 | | | The Man in the Rocking Chair |
| | Kirill | Vladimirovich | Grand Duke of Russia. |
| 35 | | | Raisa |
| | Alexandra | Feodorovna | Former Empress consort of Russia. |
