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