Mrs. Niska
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In my imagination, Mrs Niska isn't afraid of Adelai because to her he isn't a mobster - he's the insecure village boy she fell in love with all those decades ago. The Niska's tragedy is the childless state of their union - this is what fuels Mrs Niska's generosity to their worthless relatives and Mr Niska's dislocation from humanity. I think of Adelai as Victor Meldrew with power 
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I'd imagine someone closer to the image of old-style Russian aristocracy: older, cultured, arrogant, intelligent. Probably as cold, in some ways colder, than her husband (torture a member of his wife's family to death and all he expects in as earful? She can't be too attached to that family). I would even go so far as to venture she is the long-range planner of the pair. She is the one diversifying the empire while Niska indulges his more gruesome hobbies. Maybe it started out as a political marriage with a lot of scheming to get rid of each other early on. By now, they are settled into a routine, with extremely creepy dinner conversations.
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