• ADRIAN LAVROV, the Shepherd of Lonz
• PETER VETROVA, an old peasant
• CATHERINE, Vetrova's wife
• VASIL, grandson of Peter and Catherine
• VERA, sister to Vasil
• KORELENKO, betrothed to Vera
• PRINCESS SOPHIE TRAVINSKI
• KALUSHKIN, SIMEON, GREGORI, UGO, peasants of Lonz
• ANNA, ULIANA, neighbors to the Vetrovas
• GREGORIEF, an ex-prisoner
• GALOVKINE, a doctor
• MANLIEF, a student
• COLONEL ORLOFF, of the Czar's army
• IRTENIEFF, ZARKOFF, officers
• Soldiers, revolutionists, peasants, &c.

Scene: A peasant home in Russia
Time: June, nineteen hundred and five