Elina: bar girl
Esim: Tatar doctor
Fyodorov, Viktor Bogdonovich: Radio manager at Dacha station
Gorchakov, Brandy: Up-timer, counselor to the royal family
Gorchakov, Vladimir Petrovich: Boyar, Counselor to Czar Mikhail
Holmes, Miroslava: Our Sherlock Holmes, starts out as a bar girl. She has hazel eyes and auburn hair, she is five seven.
Irina : bar girl
Ivan: muscle at pawn shop
Kira, maid of all work at Devornikov home
Kira: bar girl
Konstantin: barber/dentist
Kotermak, Yuriy: Ufa city Garrison Sergeant.
Matvey: A beat cop
Mazlov, Ivan, brevet general, czar's army
Melica: inadvertent murderer
Nikolina: bar girl
Oleg: Bar guard
Olga Petrovichna: effectively the mayor of Ufa
Papa: Melica's father
Raisa: bar girl
Roksana: bar girl
Ruzukov, Stefan Andreevich: Factory owner in Ufa and recently advanced to dvoriane
Ruzukov, Vera Sergeevna: Delegate to Constitutional Convention, called “The Honorable.”
Shuvalov, Leontii: - Colonel in Russian Army for Sheremetev in charge of the Gorchakov Dacha
Simmons, Tami: Nurse and Surgeon General for Mikhail’s Russia
Vadim: teenager with dinghy
Vasin, Damir: Kazan streltzi
Vedenin, Dimitri: Kazan streltzi sergeant
Veloshov, Piotr: thief
Vetrov, Nikola: China desk at Embassy Bureau, dead by possible murder
Vinnikov, Maksim Borisovich: Teenaged reader and detective in training for Pavel Baranov
Vitsin, Ivan: Captain of the River Queen
Waldemar: mortuary attendant
Zuykov, Viktor, detective corporal, Ufa police
AK4: The AK4 isn't a single design but a group of designs that have a few features in common. The features of an AK4 are chambers that are ignited by caps rather than through a touch hole. Which is what the AK3s chambers use. Most AK4s past the AK4.2s use chamber clips.
Chamber Clips: Small wire or sheet metal containers used to tie chambers together in a way that allows them to be shifted into firing position quickly. Again, there are multiple designs with common parameters and not all chamber clips fit all AK4s.
Chamber: A short thick tube that is hand loaded with powder, shot and in the case of cap-lock chambers with cap. Then inserted into a rifle or a pistol behind the main barrel. They are heavy enough to withstand the explosive force of the black powder charges.
Condenser: much the same shape as a tub boiler but with the opposite function. The condenser is designed to lose heat and allow the steam to cool and condense back into water so that it can be reused.
Deti boyars: literally boyar's sons, in practice the personal retainers of boyars
Dvoriane: a member of the service nobility
Vodka: distinct from the modern vodka this was an alcohol-based medicine similar to the snake oil sold in the old west. It promised to cure everything from cancer to a foul mood.