Glossary of Characters

(*indicates fictional characters)

Anastasia’s Family

NICHOLAS ALEXANDROVITCH ROMANOV: tsar; Anastasia’s father

ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA ROMANOV: tsaritsa; Anastasia’s mother

 

ALEXEI: tsarevitch; Anastasia’s brother

MARIE FEODOROVNA ROMANOV: tsar’s mother; Anastasia’s grandmother

OLGA ALEXANDROVNA (Aunt Olga): tsar’s sister

XENIA ALEXANDROVNA (Aunt Xenia): tsar’s sister

ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVITCH (Uncle Sandro): Aunt Xenia’s husband and tsar’s cousin

IRINA, ANDREW, THEODORE, DMITRI, VASSILY, ROSTISLAV, NIKITA: children of Xenia and Sandro; Anastasia’s cousins

MICHAEL ALEXANDROVITCH ROMANOV (Uncle Misha): tsar’s brother

NICHOLAS NICHOLAIEVITCH ROMANOV: tsar’s cousin; commander-in-chief of the armies

GEORGE MIKHAILOVITCH ROMANOV: tsar’s cousin husband of Queen Marie of Greece; father of Nina Uncle Sandro’s brother

ELIZABETH OF HESSE (Aunt Ella): tsaritsa’s sister

ERNST LUDWIG OF HESSE (Uncle Erni): tsaritsa’s brother

WILHELM II, KAISER (Cousin Willy): tsaritsa’s cousin

 

Friends of the Romanovs

FATHER GRIGORY (Rasputin): holy man; adviser to tsaritsa

ANYA VYRUBOVA: tsaritsa’s close friend

LILI DEHN: tsaritsa’s close friend

 

DR BOTKIN: family physician

GLEB BOTKIN: his son; Anastasia’s friend

DR DEREVENKO: Alexei’s physician

EMIR OF BOKHARA: exotic visitor

CROWN PRINCE CAROL OF ROMANIA: Olga’s suitor

KING FERDINAND: his father

QUEEN MARIE: his mother

NICHOLAS DMITRIEVITCH DEMEKOV (Kolya): Mashka’s friend

*LIEUTENANT BORIS: Anastasia’s dancing partner

*MRS PHELPS: English visitor

*OFFICER SALTIKOV: Tatiana’s dancing partner

 

Members of the household, servants, others

SHURA: Anastasia’s nurse-governess

 

SAILOR DEREVENKO: Alexei’s sailor-guardian

SAILOR NAGORNY: Alexei’s sailor-guardian

FATHER VASILEV: family priest

JIM: American door attendant

CARL FABERGé: jeweller; creator of Easter eggs

MADAME GHERINGER: supplier of scarves, gloves, etc.

*DUNYASHA: Olga’s maid

*NATASHA: Dunyasha’s daughter

*VLADYA: Natasha’s fiancé

*MISS KROPOTKIN: children’s music teacher

*LUTKA: servant

*SONIA PETROVNA IZVOLSKY: servant

*KREMIKOV: court photographer

 

Military and political officials

GENERAL KORNILOV: respected leader who informed the tsaritsa of arrest

ALEXANDER KERENSKY: Minister of Justice

COLONEL YEVGENY KOBYLINSKY: officer in charge of prisoners

COMMISSAR RODIONOV: officer who replaced Kobylinsky

COMMISSAR VASSILY YAKOVLEV: representative of Bolshevik government in Tobolsk

COMMANDANT AVDEYEV: head of guards at Ekaterinburg

COMMANDANT YUROVSKY: head of Secret Police

 

Other important figures

MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA: prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Ballet

VLADIMIR ILYITCH LENIN: Bolshevik leader

LEON TROTSKY: Bolshevik leader

PRINCE FELIX YUSSUPOV: husband of the tsar’s niece, Irina; assassin of Rasputin

 

Family pets

VANKA: Alexei’s donkey

EIRA: tsaritsa’s Scottish terrier

ORTINO: Tatiana’s French bulldog

JOY: Alexei’s spaniel

JIMMY: Anastasia’s spaniel