A "heavy, shapely" woman with a sleepy voice, Arlova is Rubashov's secretary during his job at the Trade Delegation. They have an affair, and Arlova tells Rubashov, "You will always be able to do what you like with me" before the Stalinist purges begin, and she receives a warning in her new post as librarian to restock the books of opposition leaders. Shortly afterwards, Rubashov stops his little jokes with her, and she stops going to his room. Soon she is condemned as a traitor and sentenced to death.
Bogrov is Rubashov's old friend. Rubashov befriended Bogrov when Bogrov taught him to read while they were roommates in exile. As Rubashov taps to his prison-cell neighbor, Bogrov was a "former sailor on Battleship Potemkin, Commander of.....
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