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Professor Elvov

He contributes to a multi-volume history of the Communist Party and is later called a Trotsky sympathizer.

Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg

She is a loyal Communist Party member and teacher who is falsely accused of terrorism.

Lieutenant Tsarevsky

A member of the State Security who appears at Ginzburg's hearings at Black Lake.

Julia Karepova

A biologist who is Ginzburg's cellmate at Butyrki Prison.

Ira Yegreva

This young graduate student was falsely accused of belonging to a conservative group was imprisoned for the crime.

Lyama Shepel

The wealthy twenty-two year old daughter of a railroad magnate.

Major Yelshin

He is responsible for Ginzburg being labeled a terrorist.

Sergey Kirov

He is assassinated on December 1, 1934, in Leningrad.

Pavel Aksyonova

He is a leading Party member of the Tartar Province Committee and is often away on business.

Avdotya

A simple, kind, and spiritual country woman who advises her to leave...

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