The Tale of Bygone Years (PVL)

Ruslan is a complex character—cheerful and playful, but the more we get to know him, the more he reveals a different side—his negative attitude toward others. He's naturally brash, and childhood trauma has hardened him. He deliberately avoids close friendships. Among friends, he's a charming conversationalist, making everyone laugh, but he never misses an opportunity to crack a sarcastic joke or to offend someone with his comments, "because why not?"—which is why he's disliked in society. Despite his jester-like image, he's very insightful. He can't stand loneliness, though he doesn't make close friends. Many people talk to him, but they often say nasty things behind his back. That's why he likes to pick fights with Yura—he's not hypocritical and openly admits he doesn't like Yeniseysky.
He believes the best defense is a good offense. He denies any wrongdoing. He's a passionate gambler and a master of cards, perhaps because Krasnoyarsk was the first city in the USSR to establish a legal casino.

Yeniseyskiy Ruslan Andreevich
Age: 395 years (23 years physically)
Date of birth: August 6, 1628
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Siberian Federal District
Height: 179 cm
Hair color: Red
Eye color: Green

Physically he is 20 years old, and chronologically he is 200 years old (he was born in 1824).
He has brown hair and green eyes.
His friends are butterflies, flowers and roe deer.
Fans sometimes draw parallels with Snow White.
In relations with other cities, the picture is this: Barnaul probably doesn’t like him, Krasnoyarsk considers him “crazy,” and with Novosibirsk they have more of a working relationship than a personal one.

the capital of the Altai Republic

It is part of the Volga Federal District.
Danis was born on May 30, 1574.
He used to be stern and conservative, influenced by the Bashkir uprisings. Now he's softened and enjoys rap. (I thought Chelyabinsk tried to teach him to sing?)
He has some distinctive features: short dark brown hair (which he dyes blonde), unusual "cat-like" pupils, and thick black eyebrows.
Danis is the adopted son of Yuri Dolgoruky, which is why he has a complicated relationship with people named Yura.

capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan / Bashkiria

Moskovsky Mikhail Yuryevich
Age ≈878 years (approximately 27 years)
Date of birth: September 9, 1147
Gender: Male
Other names: Җаным (from Kazan), Kuchkovo/Kuchkov (second name before the 13th century), Zvyozdochka (from Smolensk)
Affiliation: Central Federal District
Height: 184 cm
Hair color: Wheat
Eye color: Blue
Moscow, as the Miori used to say, seems nice, but in reality it's a calculating asshole, noisy, obsessed with money, and doesn't believe in tears.

Has a Manager personality type, ESTJ.

Adaptive Pragmatist: Survival through adaptation: Historically shaped by threats (the Mongol yoke, wars, changing eras). Their actions are always calculated: "Would you like to give it up? No. But you have to."

Horde Era: A humble servant hiding hatred.
18th century: Peter's mentor, suppressing personal animosities for the sake of imperial goals.
USSR: An ideological fanatic who became a "mouthpiece of power."
Modernity: Business elite in Moscow City, although internally remains a "village boy"
Childhood Trauma: Violence from the Golden Horde shaped:
Inability to be vulnerable: Psychologically unable to be in a passive role.
Permanent guilt: Wears a cross from Kyiv as a symbol of irredeemable guilt for betraying his brother, but breaks all the commandments.
War as a personal drama: In WWII, pain for occupied brothers (Kyiv, Minsk) turned into rage: My Pain turned into Rage
Modernity: Business elite in Moscow City, although inside he remains a boy from the village.
Power/Modesty: Lives in luxury (Moscow City), but dreams of French fries from Teremok.
Calculation/Sacrifice: Set himself on fire in 1812 to save the hated St. Petersburg: "For the first time, I wasn't thinking about myself."
1320s: Moscow's childhood coincided with the most difficult period of Mongol rule. As his monologues attest: "I had to endure and go to great lengths to survive."
Key aspects:
Systematic humiliation and violence by the Horde
Formation of the principle "the end justifies the means"
Receiving a cross from Kyiv - the only symbol of hope.

Name and initials: Alexander Petrovich Romanov (under Soviet rule – Nevsky).
Date of birth: May 27, 1703 (the day the city was founded by Peter I).
Personality: Punctual, literate, and meticulous (especially when it comes to mistakes—he's very strict about them). He's often called the "cultural capital."

Name: Volzhsky Grigory Fedorovich
Age: 434 years (24 years physically)
Date of birth: 1589
Gender: Male
Other names: Tsaritsyn (until 1925), Stalingrad (until 1961)
Affiliation: Southern Federal District
Height: 195 cm
Hair color: Dark brown
Eye color: Dark burgundy
Volgograd has dark brown hair slicked back and dark burgundy eyes. Grigory stands about two meters tall, with broad shoulders and a heavy gait. Although the war has largely shaped his personality, he still bears scars on his body: on his neck and just below his collarbones.
As mentioned earlier, the Great Patriotic War had a profound impact on Grigory, leaving him with PTSD. But in his daily life, Volgograd seems mostly calm these days, although the fireworks on May 9th do cause him some discomfort due to the noise. This period is forever imprinted in Volzhsky's memory. Fifty thousand bombs were dropped on him, and the Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest in human history, but this couldn't bring him down: he remained firmly on his feet and bore only a few scars. In 1948, hearing German speech in Kaliningrad caused him to lose control of his mind, but help arrived in time and Grigory didn't have time to harm him. In 1950, he apologized to Wilhelm.
He communicates closely with Kaliningrad, despite the past, although he is a little afraid of him because "...He seems to look into your soul, asks a lot of personal questions and, um, it's so strange-".
Would have been sorted into the Hufflepuff house.
The most beautiful fireworks for him are those on May 9th.
Grisha doesn't use sunscreen.
He doesn't work out on purpose, he just enjoys sports leisure.
Most of the scars healed over time.

Name: Tvangste Wilhelm
Age: 768 years (29 years physically)
Date of birth: September 1, 1255
Gender: Male
Other names: Königsberg
Affiliation: Northwestern Federal District
Height: 177 cm
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Amber
One of Wilhelm's main interests is philosophy. If you start arguing with him about something profound, you might end up derealizing. That's why Alexander loves talking to him. He's very meticulous. He speaks several languages ​​and sometimes mixes them.
Great Patriotic War
During the war, Wilhelm's opinion differed sharply from Hitler's. He was angry at Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, and the rest, but after the war, this feeling faded. Kaliningrad hated the National Socialists. He considered their ideas vulgar, and their biological ideology was repugnant to him.
USSR
After joining the USSR on April 7, 1946, he became a victim of bullying in all Russian cities. On July 4 of that year, the city was renamed from Königsberg to Kaliningrad. After the bombing of Altstadt, Löbenicht, and Kneichphof, his tremors began to subside in 1950. Wilhelm suspects that his cerebellum was damaged at that time.
The Russian cities wanted Wilhelm to beg for forgiveness and humiliate himself, but he says he was humiliated enough by donning the uniform of a National Socialist. He had already been shamed by his country. In June 1946, he encountered Stalingrad. In 1948, he arrived in Moscow to call Berlin (under surveillance). Wilhelm didn't want to talk to him or find out how he was doing. At that moment, Stalingrad flashed back to him from the German speech and attacked Wilhelm. Then, in his nightmares, Kaliningrad began to see two red abysses—Grigoriy's eyes. Later, Kaliningrad returned to Moscow to meet with Stalingrad so that it could apologize for the incident.
Contrary to stereotypes, Wilhelm communicates with Volgograd, despite his past.
He's blond and has amber eyes. This is likely due to Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region being famous for its amber and amber products.

Ergenskaya Saran Stepanovna
Age 159 years (18 years physically)
Date of birth: 1865
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Southern Federal District
Height: 149 cm
Hair color: Dark brown
Eye color: Black
Relationship
He is in close contact with Astrakhan and, together with it, considers himself a descendant of the Golden Horde.

He admires Kazan, extols it as an idol and takes it as an example.

The capital of the Republic of Kalmykia

Tarkhanov Rakhim Ivanovich
Age: 466 years (27 years physically)
Date of birth
1558
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Southern Federal District
Height: 177 cm
Hair color: Brown with blue-green highlights in the front
Eye color: Brown.
Communicates with Krasnodar, or rather, with its money. Because she's always partying at its expense.
He keeps in touch with Makhachkala, finding him cute. He loves being carried around.
Friends with Volgograd.
I would like to make friends with Moscow, because it has a lot of money.

Personality. Dugar is taciturn, responsible, and confident. When he's passionate about something, he takes it seriously and always sees it through to completion. Family is important to him, however.
Appearance. He has long brown hair, which he often wears in a ponytail. His eyes are a bright amber. On his left forearm is a tattoo of a tiger holding a sable in its jaws. The tiger is a reference to the Irkutsk coat of arms (which depicts a babr, an unspecified animal, a cross between an Amur tiger and a panther), and the sable symbolizes the merchant class.
Peculiarities: Dugar has a falcon—the embodiment of Lake Baikal. Amusingly, during earthquakes in the area, the falcon gets headaches.

Age: 288 years (physically 22 years old).
Date of birth: September 13, 1736 (when the Chelyabinsk fortress was founded).
Personality: Calls himself stern, but is actually kind and always willing to help. He enjoys engineering and architecture, and designs tanks. He enjoys playing World of Tanks.
Traits: He suffers from tuberculosis and depression (though he doesn’t admit it), and has become addicted to smoking.
Appearance: unhealthy pale skin, dark eyes and hair, scar on eyebrow.
Relationships: He has an older brother, Ufa, and a sister, Kazan; he is believed to have children in Snezhinsk and Magnitogorsk.

Role: Representation of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the Ural Federal District.
Appearance: The character has two-toned hair and eyebrows. This is a reference to the city's unique location—it sits directly on the land border between Europe and Asia. His eyes are light brown. Kostya himself is quite large, and even in formal attire, he wears simple and comfortable clothes.
Character and biographical details in the plot: Miori drew him in an image reminiscent of Marvel's Captain America. The plot contains references to the city's history: for example, in the 18th and 19th centuries, Yekaterinburg was a major gold mine (the empire's first gold was mined there), and this is reflected in his appearance (his eyes were more yellow back then). Another detail: in the 1990s, the Uralmash criminal group gained power in the city, and this is also reflected in the character's history.

Kamskaya Anna Petrovna
Age
approximately 274 years (21 years physically)
Date of birth: City: May 15, 1723.
Embodiment: approximately 1750
Gender: Female
Other names: Anyuta
Affiliation: Volga Federal District
Height: 165 cm
Hair color - Red
Eye color - Orange
Anna is a rather conservative girl, not very sociable, and has trouble building relationships with those in her community. She tries to be gentle, but she can also hit. She loves romantic comedies.

Gender: male (actually female, only Rinchin Ulanov and Dugar know about this, no one else.)
Appearance: brunette hair, brown eyes.
Clothes: black sweater, gray pants.

Soyol's biography:
That's not his real name; his real name is Seseg—yes, Seseg, a Buryat female name. She became a man. But ONLY Rinchin and Dugar know his true identity, as they were close to each other.

Age: 357 years (but physically looks 25)
Origin: founded in 1666 – in this year, the Russian Cossack winter quarters at the confluence of the Uda and Selenga rivers laid the foundation for the future city.
Personality: He practices Buddhism and is interested in philosophy. He is also calm, peace-loving, and doesn't hold grudges.
Appearance: He has typical Buryat features—straight black hair, skin the color of baked milk, high cheekbones, and almond-shaped black eyes with epicanthal folds. He also wears a long gold earring.
Family: older brother – Irkutsk, younger brother (sister) – Chita.
Special feature: Rinchin has a pet sable named Barguzin, the embodiment of the river itself.

Age and date of birth: 391 years old (but physically looks 24). Date of birth: September 25, 1632.
Affiliation. Part of the Far Eastern Federal District.
Appearance: Black hair, blue eyes, and very thick dark eyebrows. Tans easily if exposed to the sun for too long.
Personality and Interests: Aykhan likes cool, rich guys. He wants to date Mikhail Yuryevich, but Moscow has Sasha, so Yakutsk doesn't interfere.
History. Until the 14th century, the Yakuts lived near Lake Baikal, but then the Buryats arrived from the east and drove them north. Yakutsk itself was a tribe at the time, not a city, so it doesn't remember this now.
Relationships. He's friends with Ulan-Ude. However, Yakutsk is a bit wary of Irkutsk—it behaves strangely: sometimes avoiding, sometimes ignoring.