| Mark |
Addison | FBI agent |
| Pete |
Ambrosino | Paul's colleague |
| Grant |
Anderson | Carpenter and boat builder |
| Tadao |
Ando | Celebrity Japanese architect |
| Diane |
Arbus | American photographer |
| Richard |
Avedon | American photographer |
| Francis |
Bacon | Philosopher and former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain |
| Boris |
Badenov | Cartoon character |
| Jon |
Batiste | American singer and songwriter |
| Walter |
Beckley | Paul's childhood friend |
| Galina Borisovna |
Belkina | Arkady's first wife |
| Andrei |
Berzin | Arkady Galkin's chief of security |
| Ilya |
Bondarenko | Paul's new acquaintance |
| Lyle |
Boudreaux | Grant's good friend |
| Marjorie |
Brightman | Paul's mother |
| Paul |
Brightman | Former Wall Street star |
| Stanley |
Brightman | Paul's father; Aka: Stan |
| Thomas |
Brightman | Stan's brother |
| Michael |
Bublé | Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Sarah |
Burton | English fashion designer |
| Ethan |
Carswell | Paul's colleague |
| John |
Casey | Boat builder |
| Winston |
Churchill | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Tom |
Cruise | American actor and film producer |
| Steve |
D'Orazio | Fictional character |
| Geraldine |
Dempsey | High-ranking CIA official running covert operation "Phantom" |
| Lady |
Diana | Princess of Wales |
| Bill |
Dowling | Galkin's lawyer |
| Sheila |
Drake | Head nurse |
| Dwight |
Eisenhower | 34th U.S. president |
| Empress |
Elizabeth | Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary |
| David |
Emanuel | Welsh fashion designer |
| Elizabeth |
Emanuel | British fashion designer |
| Walker |
Evans | American photographer and photojournalist |
| Dick |
Foley | Friend of Rick Jacobson |
| Chad |
Forrester | Paul's new acquaintance |
| Robert |
Frank | Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker |
| Lucian |
Freud | British painter |
| Eugene |
Frost | Managing director; Aka: Mr. Frost |
| Lady |
Gaga | American singer |
| Arkady |
Galkin | Tatyana's father |
| Tatyana |
Galkin | Beautiful and talented Russian photographer |
| Bill |
Gates | American businessman and philanthropist |
| Melinda |
Gates | American philanthropist |
| John Robinson |
Gillette | Former FBI director and judge; Aka: J.R. Gillette |
| Mikhail |
Gorbachev | Former president of the Soviet Union |
| Katy |
Grannan | American photographer and filmmaker |
| Armand |
Hammer | American businessman |
| Sarah |
Harrison | Grant's girlfriend |
| Charles |
Helmworth | Tatyana's ex-boyfriend |
| Captain Nathanael |
Herreshoff | American naval architect and mechanical engineer |
| Philip |
Horgan | Ex-CIA officer |
| Catherine |
II | Former Empress of Russia |
| Rick |
Jacobson | Paul's friend |
| Elton |
John | British singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Boris |
Johnson | Former UK Prime Minister |
| Jeremiah |
Johnson | Alias used by Stan Brightman |
| Ted |
Kaczynski | American mathematician and domestic terrorist |
| Maxim |
Kagan | Russian citizen wanted by the FBI |
| John |
Kapinos | Newly hired analyst |
| Kim |
Kardashian | American media personality and socialite |
| Yousuf |
Karsh | American-Canadian photographer |
| Bernie |
Kovan | American financial investigator and former journalist |
| Elizabeth |
Kroll | Emerging painter in New York City |
| Igor |
Krupin | Russian foreign intelligence |
| Kendrick |
Lamar | American rapper and singer |
| Robert |
Langfitt | Paul's fake name |
| Chris |
Langley | Associate at the firm |
| Jake |
Larsen | Employee at Galkin's firm |
| John |
Legend | American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Annie |
Leibovitz | American photographer |
| Vladimir Ilyich |
Lenin | Former Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union |
| Mikhail |
Lermontov | Russian writer and poet |
| Doctor |
Lichtenberg | German scientist and satirist |
| Nili |
Lotan | Designer |
| Mary |
Louise | Rick Jacobson's wife |
| Stephen |
Lucas | Deacon |
| Frank |
Lundberg | Detective Sergeant |
| Ivan |
Matlovsky | Real estate professional |
| Vladimir |
Mayakovsky | Russian poet and playwright |
| Kate |
Middleton | Princess of Wales |
| Evgeni |
Morozov | Writer and researcher |
| Professor |
Moss Sweetwater | Acquaintance of the Brightman family |
| Benito |
Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
| Vladimir |
Nabokov | Russian-American novelist and poet |
| Frederick |
Newman | Dangerous, mysterious man hired by a Russian oligarch to kill Grant Anderson |
| Czar |
Nicholas II | Former Emperor of Russia |
| Richard |
Nixon | 37th U.S. president |
| Tim |
O'Brien | American novelist |
| Natasha I. |
Obolensky | Mysterious figure connected to Arkady Galkin's financial empire |
| Tim |
Ogilvy | Local fisherman |
| Count Alexei |
Orlov | Russian soldier, statesman, key figure to Catherine the Great |
| Matt |
Orlov | Fluent Russian-speaking investment officer |
| Kim |
Philby | British intelligence agent |
| Aleksandr Sergeyevich |
Pushkin | Russian poet and playwright |
| Olivia |
Rodrigo | American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Michael |
Rodriguez | Paul's friend; Aka: Mike |
| The |
Rolling Stones | Rock band |
| Mark |
Rothko | American painter |
| August |
Sander | German photographer |
| Bradley |
Sarkisian | Paul's old friend from college; Aka: Brad |
| Volodymyr |
Shevchenko | IT specialist |
| Susan |
Sontag | American writer |
| Bruce |
Springsteen | American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| Gordon |
Summer | Iconic English musician |
| Taylor |
Swift | American singer-songwriter |
| Princess |
Tarakanova | Pretender to the Russian throne |
| Stephanie |
Trombley | FBI agent and Paul's ally |
| Harry |
Truman | 33rd U.S. president |
| Carla |
Wachtell | Broker at Goldman Sachs |
| Kanye |
West | American writer and songwriter |
| Louis |
Westing | Small-town lawyer with his own firm; Aka: Lou |
| Margo |
Whitworth | Mr. Frost's new administrative officer |
| Alec |
Wood | Deputy police chief in Derryfield |
| Boris |
Yeltsin | Former president of Russia |
| David |
Zwirner | German art dealer |
| Aaron |
| Friend of Mark Addison |
| Alex |
| One of Thomas' sons |
| Amy |
| Receptionist |
| Andrea |
| Tatyana's friend |
| Arthur |
| Architect |
| Atticus |
| Kid who always wears Star Wars T-shirts |
| Babushka |
| Tatyana's grandmother |
| Bernie |
| Paul's friend |
| Brent |
| Vera's husband |
| Cartier-Bresson |
| French photographer |
| Dedushka |
| Tatyana's grandfather |
| Fran |
| Waitress |
| Irina |
| Galkin's second wife |
| Jason |
| One of Thomas' sons |
| Leonid |
| Accountant |
| Lizzo |
| American singer and rapper |
| Ludmilla Sergeyevna |
| Younger faculty member |
| Maddy |
| One of Galkin's secretaries |
| Meryl |
| Brad's secretary |
| Niko |
| Tatyana's brother |
| Noreen |
| Housemaid |
| Oksana |
| Maid |
| Pasha |
| Russian nickname for Paul |
| Polina |
| Tatyana's stepmother |
| Pushkin |
| Tatyana's dog |
| Robin |
| Flight attendant |
| Saweetie |
| American rapper and singer |
| Sebsstian |
| Tatyana's ex-boyfriend |
| Serena |
| Paul's ex-girlfriend |
| Shawn |
| Deceased former army buddy of Paul Brightman |
| Simon |
| Steward |
| Tilda |
| Sarah's aunt |
| Tucker |
| Dog |
| Vera |
| Tatyana's friend |
| Volodymyr |
| Galkin's IT employee |
| Weegee |
| Photographer and photojournalist |
