PEOPLE
	Rudolf V/Rudolf Rassendyll? There is some doubt as to when this portrait was made, hence identification cannot be 100% certain...
	Michael von Elphberg, Duke & Governor of Strelsau A rare surviving engraving of the Duke of Strelsau, as displayed in numerous windows in the Altstadt for 'Rudolf V''s coronation. Black-haired and brown-eyed, his swarthy appearance (whence his epithet "Black") was only brightened latterly by a hectic flush and brilliance of eye: signs of a disease which would have destroyed him had not von Hentzau got in there first with an unplanned (and fatal) artificial pneumothorax-by-sword...
	Frau Holf: Housekeeper at the Duke's hunting-lodge in Zenda, widowed mother of Max, Johann and 2 daughters. Rassendyll ungallantly described her as "fat and elderly": she was about 50 (her youngest, Rosa, was only a teenager). Three years later, she was running a food-shop and lodgings at 19 Königstraße, Strelsau. Johann, by then living abroad on hush-money, evidently did not confide in her the circumstances of the Duke's murder: had she known the truth, it is unlikely that she would have aided Hentzau, his killer. The lithograph is from a magazine interview with her about Hentzau's death. She did not divulge all, and so, like her surviving son, lived comfortably on the proceeds of her silence.