Fall of Giants
Characters in Fall of Giants
28 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Walter von Ulrich
A German nobleman attached to the embassy in London and a former schoolmate of Fitz, drawn to Maud.
Ethel Williams
Billy's older sister, a miner's daughter who works as housekeeper for the Earl Fitzherbert's household and later takes up the suffragette cause in London.
Gus Dewar
A highly educated young American who becomes a close adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.
Billy Williams
A thirteen-year-old who starts work in the coal mine beneath the Welsh town of Aberowen in 1911, and whose family's union beliefs shape him.
Grigori Peshkov
A Russian orphan and locomotive factory worker in St Petersburg who resents the aristocracy.
Supporting characters
Edward Fitzherbert
Known as Fitz, the Earl who owns the Aberowen estate and licenses the land for the mine, and who hosts the lavish party at his London house.
Lev Peshkov
Grigori's younger brother, who takes a very different path from him and ends up in America.
Bea Fitzherbert
Fitz's wife, a Russian princess.
Earl Fitzherbert
Johnny Ponti
Teddy Williams
Michail Pinsky
Natty Rothschild
Suzanne von Ulrich
Spirya
Khabalov
Madame Caillaux
Nikolai Sokolov
Owen Bevin
William Tyrrell
Boldyrev
Father Gapon
Duke Mikhail
David Crampton
Brusilov
Lady Maud Fitzherbert
Fitz's more liberal-minded sister, who falls for the German nobleman Walter von Ulrich.
Minor characters
Woodrow Wilson
King George V