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