prince stepan stiva arkadyevitch oblonsky

Characters

Princess Ekaterina Kitty Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya

Dollys younger sister and later Levins wifemore...
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina

A beautiful, aristocratic married woman from St. Petersburg whose pursuit of love and emotional honesty makes her an outcast from society. Annas adulterous affair catapults her into social exile, misery, and finally suicide. Anna is a beautiful person in ...
Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky

Lover of Anna...
Konstantin Kostya Dmitrievitch Levin

Levin was originally a marginal character in the novel, but by the final version he had grown into its co-protagonist, as central as Anna herself. Levin is a veiled self-portrait of the author: his name includes Tolstoys first name (Lev in Russian), and m...
Prince Stepan Stiva Arkadyevitch Oblonsky

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