Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.

Jane Callahan

André Tolstoi

General Radlov

Douglas McCraken

Captain Mokine

Polievsky

Alibekov

Boutourline

Kopnovsky

André Tolstoï's mother

André Tolstoi's uncle

Douniacha

Forsten

Perepiolkina

Imperator Aleksandr III

Imperatritsa

Velikiy knyaz

Adyutant Velikogo knyazya

Vakhmistr Bukin
November 11, 1998

Jane Callahan

André Tolstoi

General Radlov

Douglas McCraken

Captain Mokine

Polievsky

Alibekov

Boutourline

Kopnovsky

André Tolstoï's mother

André Tolstoi's uncle

Douniacha

Forsten

Perepiolkina

Imperator Aleksandr III

Imperatritsa

Velikiy knyaz

Adyutant Velikogo knyazya

Vakhmistr Bukin

