

The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.

Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Liza Evert-Kolokoltseva

Ippolit Aleksandrovich Zurov

Gerald Cunningham

Emma Pful

Amaliya Kazimirovna Bezhetskaya

Lady Ester

Ivan Frantsevich Brilling

Ksaveriy Feofilaktovich Grushin

Georg

Akhimas

Timosha - gatekeeper at Estonian school

John - butler

Evert-Kolokoltsev - baron
Blank - professor

Agrafena Kondratyevna
Savvushka

Lavrentiy Arkadyevich Mizinov

Kokorin

Nikolay Akhtyrtsev

Kukin - barber
Police morgue attendant
Bailiff's assistant

Doorman

Gatekeeper at the university

Commission member

Commission member
Misha
Filya

player in Stoss

player in Stoss
player in Stoss
player in Stoss

Jean - foot servant
mustachioed major - player in Stoss

Hotel receptionist

Parfeniy Martynovich Pyzhov

Klaus - George's henchman
Slum innkeeper

1st official at the post office