Anna Karenina - Main Characters

Main Characters

  • Princess Anna Arkadyevna Karenina (Анна Аркадьевна Каренина): Stepan Oblonsky's sister, Karenin's wife and Vronsky's lover.
  • Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky (Aлекceй Kиpиллoвич Bpoнcкий): Lover of Anna, a cavalry officer
  • Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevich Oblonsky (Cтeпaн "Cтивa" Aркaдьевич Oблoнский): a civil servant and Anna's brother, a man about town, 34.
  • Princess Darya "Dolly" Alexandrovna Oblonskaya (Дарья "Дoлли" Aлeксaндрoвна Oблoнскaя): Stepan's wife, 33
  • Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin: a senior statesman and Anna's husband, twenty years her senior.
  • Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievich Levin: Kitty's suitor and then husband, old friend of Stiva, a landowner, 32.
  • Nikolai Dmitrievich Levin: Konstantin's elder brother, an impoverished alcoholic.
  • Sergius Ivanovich Koznyshev: Konstantin's half-brother, a celebrated writer, 40.
  • Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya: Dolly's younger sister and later Levin's wife, 18.
  • Princess Elizaveta "Betsy": Anna's wealthy, morally loose society friend and Vronsky's cousin
  • Countess Lidia Ivanovna: Leader of a high society circle that includes Karenin, and shuns Princess Betsy and her circle. She maintains an interest in the mystical and spiritual
  • Countess Vronskaya: Vronsky's mother
  • Sergei "Seryozha" Alexeyich Karenin: Anna and Karenin's son
  • Anna "Annie": Anna and Vronsky's daughter
  • Varenka: a young orphaned girl, semi-adopted by an ailing Russian noblewoman, whom Kitty befriends while abroad

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