Anna Karenina: A Complete Character and Relationship Map

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Anna and Levin belong to the same extended family before they ever meet. Anna’s brother Stiva is married to Dolly; Dolly’s younger sister Kitty eventually marries Levin. Stiva moves easily between their households, carrying invitations, confidences, financial troubles, and requests for help. Following him is one way to find your bearings in the novel.

The diagrams below keep the closest relationships visible. The directory then follows the wider family, friends, servants, workers, rivals, and passing acquaintances. Familiar names such as Stiva, Dolly, and Kitty appear alongside their formal names so that a different form of address does not look like the arrival of a new person.

In this guide

• The families at a glance

• Anna, Karenin, Vronsky, and the two children

• Kitty, Levin, and his brothers

• Dolly and Stiva: the household everyone passes through

• Attachments that never become marriages or affairs

• The complete character directory

• Where the story leaves everyone

• Source

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The families at a glance

The family bridge: Anna and Stiva, Dolly and Kitty, and the two marriages connecting them.

Anna and Stiva are sister and brother. Stiva and Dolly are married. Dolly and Kitty are sisters. Kitty and Levin marry in Part V. Anna and Dolly are therefore sisters-in-law; Anna and Kitty are connected through Stiva’s marriage. They are not blood sisters or cousins.

Household	Parents and children	The connection to the others
The Karenins	Anna and Alexey Karenin are the parents of Seryozha. Anna later has Annie with Vronsky while her marriage to Karenin continues.	Anna is Stiva’s sister. Karenin’s government position has helped Stiva’s career.
The Oblonskys	Stiva and Dolly have a large family, including Tanya and Grisha. Five children are alive at the opening; another daughter’s birth brings the number to six early in Part II.	Dolly is Kitty and Natalia’s sister. Anna is the children’s paternal aunt; Kitty and Natalia are their maternal aunts.
The Shtcherbatskys	The old prince and princess are the parents of Dolly, Natalia, Kitty, and an unnamed son who drowned in the Baltic.	Their three daughters marry Stiva Oblonsky, Arseny Lvov, and Konstantin Levin respectively.
The Lvovs	Natalia and Arseny Lvov have two sons; one is called Misha.	Natalia is Dolly and Kitty’s sister. Levin admires Arseny’s devotion to the boys’ upbringing.
The Levins	Konstantin and Kitty become the parents of Dmitri, called Mitya.	Konstantin’s full brother is Nikolay; their maternal half-brother is Sergey Koznishev. An unnamed sister lives abroad.
The Vronskys	Countess Vronskaya and the deceased Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky are the parents of Alexander and Alexey. Alexander is married to Varya.	Alexey is Anna’s lover and Annie’s biological father. Princess Betsy Tverskaya is his cousin.

Anna, Karenin, Vronsky, and the two children

Anna’s marriage, affair, and children. Annie is Anna and Vronsky’s biological daughter; Karenin remains her legal father.

Anna remains married to Karenin. She and Vronsky become lovers and live together, but never marry. Seryozha is Anna and Karenin’s son. Annie is Anna and Vronsky’s biological daughter. Because Anna’s first marriage continues, Annie is legally Karenin’s child and bears the surname Karenina.

Anna’s attraction to Vronsky begins during her visit to Moscow to help repair Stiva and Dolly’s marriage. Vronsky follows her to Petersburg. Their affair becomes known in society, while Karenin initially insists on preserving the outward appearance of the household. Anna openly admits her love for Vronsky after the officers’ race.

The crisis changes during Annie’s birth. Anna nearly dies, and Karenin forgives both her and Vronsky. He also becomes tenderly concerned for the baby. Vronsky, overwhelmed after this encounter, shoots himself and survives. He later asks that the shooting be described as an accident.

Karenin subsequently agrees to a divorce, but the arrangement is not completed. Anna leaves with Vronsky and Annie. Seryozha stays with Karenin. Countess Lidia Ivanovna, now deeply involved in Karenin’s life, tells the boy that his mother is dead and helps prevent an authorized visit. Anna nevertheless reaches him on his birthday with the servants’ help.

By the final Moscow chapters, Anna has again sought a divorce. Karenin ultimately refuses. Her increasingly desperate quarrels with Vronsky concern love, absence, jealousy, and the future of a household that still has no settled legal form. After she dies, Countess Vronskaya reports that Karenin has taken Annie. Vronsky regrets having agreed to give his daughter up.

Person	What matters about the relationship
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina	Stiva’s sister; Karenin’s wife; Vronsky’s lover; mother of Seryozha and Annie. Her love for Seryozha remains central after their separation.
Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin	Anna’s husband and Seryozha’s father. His concern with propriety, his extraordinary forgiveness during Anna’s illness, and his later dependence on Lidia belong to different stages of the story.
Count Alexey Kirillovitch Vronsky	Anna’s lover and Annie’s biological father. He gives up his military career to live with Anna, later manages his estate and is elected a justice of the peace, and leaves for the Serbian war after her death.
Seryozha — Sergey Alexeitch / Sergey Alexyevitch; Kootik	Anna and Karenin’s son. He longs for Anna, distrusts the story that she is dead, and later takes refuge in school companionship. His attempts to suppress memories of her are painful efforts to cope.
Annie — Anna Karenina	Anna and Vronsky’s daughter, named Anna and familiarly called Annie. She travels and lives with them; Karenin takes her after Anna’s death. She is a different child from Hannah, Anna’s English protégée.

Kitty, Levin, and his brothers

Konstantin and Nikolay are brothers; Sergey is the maternal half-brother of both.

Konstantin and Nikolay Levin are full brothers. Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev is their maternal half-brother. Their different surnames do not make Sergey a friend or distant cousin. The family also includes an unnamed sister abroad, whose property affairs Konstantin handles.

Kitty initially refuses Levin’s proposal because she expects Vronsky to ask her to marry him. Vronsky has made no such promise and does not intend to propose. His absorption in Anna at the ball leaves Kitty humiliated and ill. During her recovery abroad, Varenka’s practical kindness gives her a new example of how to live, though her attempt to imitate it also becomes a source of embarrassment.

Levin and Kitty meet again at Stiva and Dolly’s dinner. They recover their earlier conversation through a game of written initials, understand one another, and become engaged. Their marriage includes jealousy, money worries, work, household adjustments, and reconciliations. Kitty’s decisive care for the dying Nikolay shows Levin a competence he cannot supply himself.

Nikolay’s death and Mitya’s birth sharpen Levin’s questions about what makes life worth living. In the last part, Levin passes through a suicidal crisis and goes on living. The worker Fyodor speaks about a neighbor, Platon, who lives for his soul and remembers God. That conversation helps Levin recognize a meaning he has already been living without knowing how to explain it. His temper and ordinary disagreements continue.

Person	Family and attachment
Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin — Kostya	Kitty’s husband and Mitya’s father; Stiva’s old friend. His estate, his brothers, marriage, work, and religious searching occupy the novel alongside Anna’s story.
Kitty — Katerina Alexandrovna Shtcherbatskaya; Ekaterina, Katya	The youngest Shtcherbatsky daughter, later Levin’s wife. Dolly and Natalia are her sisters. She is Varenka’s close friend and nurses Nikolay during his final illness.
Nikolay Dmitrievitch Levin	Konstantin’s elder full brother. Estranged from his family and gravely ill, he lives for a time with Marya Nikolaevna. He dies with Konstantin, Kitty, and Marya involved in his care.
Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev	The Levins’ maternal half-brother, a prominent intellectual. He and Varenka are attracted to one another, but he never makes the proposal both anticipate. Later he devotes himself to the Serbian cause.
Marya Nikolaevna — Masha	Nikolay’s unmarried partner, whom he brought out of a brothel. After a separation she returns to him and helps care for him until his death. Kitty treats her without the contempt she fears.
Varenka — Varvara Andreevna	Madame Stahl’s foster daughter and Kitty’s friend. An earlier love came to nothing when the man obeyed his mother and married someone else. Her later opportunity with Sergey also ends without an engagement.
Marie	The woman Sergey loved in youth, now dead. He feels that marrying Varenka would betray her memory. The novel does not establish that Marie was his wife.
Dmitri — Mitya	Kitty and Konstantin’s son, born in Part VII. The storm near the end makes Levin suddenly feel the full force of his love for the baby.

Dolly and Stiva: the household everyone passes through

Dolly remains married to Stiva after discovering his affair with the children’s former governess. Anna helps persuade her to reconcile with him, but neither his habits nor the household’s financial strain disappears. Stiva continues pursuing women, spends beyond his means, and relies on Dolly’s property. His affection and charm make him welcome almost everywhere; Dolly carries much of the cost.

She also connects the novel’s two central women. Kitty is her sister, and Anna her sister-in-law and friend. Dolly visits Anna and Vronsky in the country when respectable society keeps its distance. She can sympathize with Anna and still feel uneasy about her life. Back at the Levins’, she defends the couple against disparagement.

Family member	Where to place them
Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky — Stiva	Anna’s brother, Dolly’s husband, and Levin’s friend. He helps bring Levin and Kitty together and later tries to negotiate Anna’s divorce.
Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya — Dolly, Dolinka	Stiva’s wife and mother of their children. Her sisters are Natalia and Kitty; her parents are the old Shtcherbatskys.
Tanya — Tanitchka	Dolly and Stiva’s eldest daughter; especially close to Anna. She appears at play, in lessons, and among the children visiting the Levins.
Grisha	Dolly and Stiva’s son. His education occupies Dolly and later Levin, whom he calls Uncle Kostya.
The younger Oblonsky children	Garnett’s text uses Vassya, Aliosha, Nikolinka, Lily or Lili, and Masha at different points, without maintaining a consistent roster of the younger children. Part III includes an unnamed three-month-old boy among six children. Dolly also remembers children who have died, including a baby lost to croup.

Attachments that never become marriages or affairs

Several scenes describe a hope, a rehearsal, or a jealous fear. Those distinctions matter as much as the established couples.

People	What actually happens
Kitty and Vronsky	Kitty expects a proposal. Vronsky courts her without intending marriage, then falls in love with Anna. Kitty and Vronsky are never engaged.
Sergey Koznishev and Varenka	Both anticipate a proposal during the mushroom-picking walk. Sergey rehearses it inwardly; their spoken conversation remains about mushrooms.
Kitty and Vassenka Veslovsky	Veslovsky flirts with her during his visit to the Levins. Levin becomes jealous and sends him away. Kitty has no affair with him.
Kitty and Prince Tcharsky	Tcharsky’s flirtation briefly provokes Levin’s jealousy early in the marriage. Kitty is indifferent to him.
Kitty and Petrov	Kitty helps the sick painter and his family at the German spa. Petrov becomes attached to her, and his wife is jealous. There is no consummated or mutually declared romance.
Anna and Levin	They have one compelling meeting in Moscow. Levin is captivated, and Kitty is hurt when he comes home. Anna soon ceases thinking about him. They do not have an affair.
Vronsky and young Princess Sorokina	His mother favors the young princess as a wife for him. Anna fears the possibility, but the novel establishes neither an affair nor a marriage.
Dolly and Turovtsin	Turovtsin has helped nurse her children. During her journey to Anna, Dolly imagines another life with a lover partly drawn from him and other men. She does not act on that fantasy.
Karenin and Lidia Ivanovna	Lidia falls in love with Karenin and gains great influence over him. The novel does not make them a sexual couple or give them a marriage.
Stiva and Betsy Tverskaya	They flirt in jest; Betsy is attracted to Stiva, who finds her disagreeable. No affair between them is established.

The complete character directory

Names follow the source edition. A surname, title, or short form is retained where the novel gives no secure full name. People who appear briefly are grouped near the household or scene that makes them recognizable.

Anna’s family and the Vronskys

Character	Place in the novel
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina	Stiva’s sister, Karenin’s wife, Vronsky’s lover, and mother of Seryozha and Annie.
Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin	Anna’s husband, Seryozha’s father, and Annie’s legal father. He takes Annie after Anna’s death.
Count Alexey Kirillovitch Vronsky	Anna’s lover and Annie’s biological father. His patronymic distinguishes him from Anna’s husband, also called Alexey.
Seryozha — Sergey Alexeitch, Sergey Alexyevitch, Kootik	Anna and Karenin’s son. He remains with his father after Anna leaves.
Annie — Anna Karenina	Anna and Vronsky’s daughter; Karenina is her legal surname. Karenin takes her after her mother’s death.
Countess Vronskaya	Alexey and Alexander Vronsky’s mother. She and Anna travel together to Moscow, where Alexey meets their train. Her initial acceptance of the liaison turns to hostility when it interferes with her son’s career. She accompanies him part of the way toward the Serbian war.
Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky	Alexey and Alexander’s deceased father. Alexey scarcely remembers him.
Alexander Vronsky	Alexey’s elder brother, married to Varya. He objects to the affair’s consequences for Alexey’s career but later visits Anna.
Varya — Princess Varya Tchirkova before marriage	Alexander’s wife and Alexey’s sister-in-law. She nurses Alexey after his shooting. Later, with daughters growing up, she refuses to receive Anna socially, although she condemns the insult at the opera.
Alexander and Varya’s children	Vronsky’s nephews and nieces. The family is mentioned at several stages; Varya specifically speaks of her growing daughters.
Princess Varvara — Princess Oblonskaya	Anna and Stiva’s unmarried aunt. She lives for a time with Anna and Vronsky and accompanies Anna to the opera. By Anna’s final Moscow stay she has withdrawn.
Katerina Pavlovna	The aunt who brought Anna up, and Princess Varvara’s sister. Varvara treats her as a rival in generosity and duty.
Anna’s aunt who arranged her marriage	A wealthy provincial aunt brought Anna together with Karenin and pressured him to propose. The marriage-history passage leaves her unnamed.
Karenin’s brother	An unnamed Foreign Affairs official, close to Karenin before his marriage. He dies abroad shortly after that marriage.
Uncle Karenin	The high official who raises Alexey and his brother after they are orphaned. His given name is not supplied.
Karenin’s parents	His father is not remembered by the brothers; his mother dies when Alexey is ten.
Karenin’s sister; his elderly female cousin	Karenin mentions sending Seryozha to his sister in Part IV, without a subsequent account of that move. An elderly female cousin dines at his house in Part I. The novel does not identify the two women as one person.
Annushka	Anna’s devoted maid, raised alongside her and present through her travels and final crisis. Her unnamed husband appears briefly in the street on Anna’s last day.
Lavrenty	Countess Vronskaya’s old butler, accompanying her on the journey to Moscow with Anna.
Mary; Yegorov	Mary tells Countess Vronskaya about the railway suicide. Yegorov is mentioned as someone who could carry money from the countess to her son.

The Shtcherbatskys, Oblonskys, and their Moscow circle

Character	Place in the novel
Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky — Stiva	Anna’s brother, Dolly’s husband, and father of the Oblonsky children.
Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya — Dolly, Dolinka	Stiva’s wife and mother of their children; sister of Kitty and Natalia.
Tanya — Tanitchka; Grisha	Dolly and Stiva’s eldest daughter and their son, both frequently seen with their aunts and Uncle Kostya.
Vassya; Aliosha; Nikolinka; Lily or Lili; Masha	Names used for younger Oblonsky children across the novel. An unnamed baby also appears. The family section above explains the changing roster.
Prince Alexander Dmitrievitch Shtcherbatsky	Dolly, Natalia, and Kitty’s father. He favors Levin as Kitty’s husband, distrusts Vronsky’s intentions, and speaks sharply about fashionable pretensions.
Princess Shtcherbatskaya	His wife and the sisters’ mother. Initially she favors Vronsky; later she oversees Kitty’s wedding and worries over the arrangements for childbirth. Her given name is not supplied.
Natalia Alexandrovna Lvova	Dolly and Kitty’s sister, married to Arseny Lvov. She helps at Kitty’s wedding and is the mother of two boys.
Arseny Lvov	Natalia’s husband. He leaves diplomatic service for work in Moscow so that their sons can be educated there. Levin enjoys his company and admires his family life.
Misha and the other Lvov boy	Natalia and Arseny’s two sons. The second boy is unnamed.
The sisters’ drowned brother	Levin’s school and university friend, an unnamed naval officer who drowned in the Baltic.
Nikolay Shtcherbatsky	Kitty’s living cousin, seen at the skating ground. He is a different person from her drowned brother. A young Shtcherbatsky also participates in the wedding scenes.
Mlle. Linon	The longtime French governess in the Shtcherbatsky family, familiar with all three sisters.
Countess Nordston — Masha	Kitty’s married friend, dismissive of Levin and enthusiastic about Vronsky during the early courtship. She later attends Kitty and Levin’s wedding.
The Oblonsky estate bailiff and his wife	He manages the neglected country property poorly; his wife helps Dolly’s nurse put the household in order.
Turovtsin	Stiva’s sociable, kindhearted friend. He spends weeks helping nurse Dolly’s children through scarlet fever, an act Kitty uses to challenge Levin’s low opinion of him.
Yegorushka Korsunsky and Lidi Korsunskaya	The married ballroom couple. Korsunsky arranges the dancing at the ball where Kitty watches Anna and Vronsky fall under each other’s spell; his wife also appears in the wedding social world.
Mlle. Roland	The Oblonsky children’s former French governess and Stiva’s mistress at the opening. Dolly’s discovery of the affair throws the household into crisis.
Masha Tchibisova	A dancer with whom Stiva has an affair later in the novel. He buys her a necklace before his dinner party.
Matvey	Stiva’s valet, skilled at managing his employer’s domestic discomforts.
Matrona Philimonovna — also Marya Philimonovna	Dolly’s experienced nurse and household ally. The name changes in the country-house chapters, where she helps make the neglected estate habitable.
Miss Hoole	The Oblonsky children’s English governess in the earlier household and country scenes. She is separate from the former French governess involved with Stiva.
Miss Elliot; Fanny	Dolly regrets Miss Elliot’s absence during the summer at the Levins’. She sends Masha to Fanny for care in the same chapter.
Terenty	Dolly’s coachman on country outings with her children.
Philip Ivanitch Nikitin; Mihail Stanislavitch Grinevitch	Stiva’s colleagues on the government board. Grinevitch’s polished appearance irritates Levin during his visit.
Zahar Nikititch	Secretary at Stiva’s government office.
Mihail Ignatitch Ryabinin	The merchant who buys the Oblonsky forest. Levin thinks Stiva has accepted far too little; Ryabinin is intent on a profitable bargain. His clerk also drives his carriage.
Princess Marya Borissovna	Kitty’s godmother, at whose home Kitty encounters Vronsky after her marriage and finds their former awkwardness has subsided.
Count Bol, Countess Bola, and their two daughters	Moscow society acquaintances. Levin meets the count at a concert and pays an obligatory call on the countess and daughters.
Gagin	A young officer introduced to Levin by Turovtsin at the club.
Pyotr Illyitch Vinovsky	A club acquaintance who offers champagne to Stiva and Levin.
Vassily, the hotel footman; Yegor, the night servant	Employees at Dussots’. Stiva knows Vassily; the elated Levin talks with Yegor about marriage. Yegor has three sons and a seamstress daughter he hopes will marry a saddler’s cashier.
Vassily, the club porter	Known for his jokes, including a remark about Prince Tchetchensky growing old.
Prince Tchetchensky	An aging club figure. Stiva also cites his legitimate family and his separate, illegitimate family in discussing the liberties men enjoy.
Prince Pyotr Oblonsky	Stiva’s sixty-year-old married host in Petersburg. The shared surname does not establish whether he is Stiva’s father, uncle, or another relation.
Prince Tcharsky	A young man whose flirtation with Kitty briefly provokes Levin’s jealousy after her marriage.
Count Siniavin; Princess Tcharskaya	Wedding guests. The princess hopes to marry Siniavin; no engagement is completed in their conversation. Her exact relation to Prince Tcharsky is unstated.
Marya Dmitrievna; Darya Dmitrievna	Marya is an old aunt at the wedding. Darya talks with Sergey there. Neither is Dolly, whose patronymic is Alexandrovna.
Madame Trubetskaya; Madame Nikolaeva	Wedding guests. Trubetskaya discusses appearances and the ceremony; Nikolaeva hopes to marry an elderly widower.
Charles	The hairdresser summoned during the wedding preparations.

The Levin family, their friends, and the German spa

Character	Place in the novel
Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin — Kostya	Kitty’s husband, Mitya’s father, and Stiva’s old friend. Nikolay is his full brother, and Sergey Koznishev his maternal half-brother.
Kitty — Katerina Alexandrovna, Ekaterina, Katya	Born a Shtcherbatskaya, she becomes Levin’s wife and Mitya’s mother. Dolly and Natalia are her sisters.
Nikolay Dmitrievitch Levin	Konstantin’s elder full brother and Sergey’s maternal half-brother. Marya is his unmarried partner; he dies in Part V.
Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev	Konstantin and Nikolay’s maternal half-brother, an intellectual drawn to Varenka. He is a different Sergey from the child Seryozha Karenin.
Dmitri — Mitya	The son of Kitty and Konstantin Levin, born in Part VII.
Levin’s unnamed sister	Lives abroad. Konstantin manages her property and deals with delays over money due to her; her complaints continue into his married life.
Levin’s deceased parents	His mother remains an especially revered memory. His father’s and grandfather’s furniture and rooms belong to the house in which he and Kitty begin their marriage.
Marya Nikolaevna — Masha	Nikolay’s partner and caregiver. She is separate from Dolly’s daughter Masha, Kitty’s maid Masha, and Stiva’s dancer Masha Tchibisova.
Kritsky	Nikolay’s radical friend and partner in a proposed locksmiths’ cooperative. His conflict with educational authorities is discussed during Konstantin’s visit.
Myakov; Fyodor Bogdanitch	Nikolay says Myakov has promised him a Moscow post. Fyodor Bogdanitch belongs to the brothers’ childhood memories.
Trubin	A creditor whose claim against Nikolay has been paid by Sergey. Nikolay bitterly resents Sergey’s intervention.
Prokofy	Brings information about Nikolay’s whereabouts to the family.
Vanya	A clerk in Levin’s counting house at Pokrovskoe, known to both brothers.
Varenka — Varvara Andreevna	Kitty’s friend from the German spa, later a guest at Pokrovskoe. At the spa she calms Nikolay during a quarrel with a German doctor and interprets for Marya. She is deeply disappointed when Sergey fails to propose.
Madame Stahl	The invalid who raises Varenka. After Stahl’s own baby dies, Varenka, a cook’s daughter born the same night, is substituted and remains with her. Reports about Stahl’s marriage and illness conflict; the prince’s mockery is not a medical diagnosis.
Varenka’s biological parents	Her father is the chief cook of the Imperial Household. By the time her upbringing is explained, she is an orphan.
Aline Stahl	Madame Stahl’s actual niece, known for charitable and religious work. She is separate from Varenka.
Varenka’s former beloved	An unnamed man who loved her but married someone else at his mother’s wish.
Mihail Alexeyevitch Petrov	The consumptive painter whom Kitty helps at the spa. His attachment to Kitty strains his marriage.
Anna Pavlovna Petrova — Anita	Petrov’s wife, caring for him and their three children. She becomes jealous of Kitty’s place in his affections.
The Petrovs’ three children	Their youngest is particularly fond of Kitty. No names are supplied.
Madame Berthe	A blind Frenchwoman at the spa who appreciates Kitty’s kindness.
Marya Yevgenyevna Rtishtcheva and her daughter	Russian acquaintances at the spa, part of the princess’s social company.
Parasha; Lieschen	Parasha is a servant offered as Varenka’s escort; Lieschen works at the Shtcherbatskys’ German lodgings.
The Moscow colonel	An old acquaintance of Kitty’s who joins the family at the German spa. He reports Nikolay’s quarrel with the doctor and attends Varenka’s recital.
The German landlord and the invalid Hamburg doctor	People in the spa lodging house, distinct from the doctors who examine Kitty before her journey.
The Moscow doctors who examine Kitty	The family doctor and the celebrated specialist discuss her illness and recommend treatment abroad. The novel does not establish their feared diagnosis of consumption as her actual disease.
Tchirikov	Levin’s best man, a conciliation-board judge and companion on bear hunts.
Arhip	Brings Tchirikov news of game for hunting.
Professor Katavasov	Levin’s university friend and a natural scientist. He debates with Levin, introduces Metrov, and visits Pokrovskoe with Sergey. Garnett calls him Mihail Semyonovitch in Part V and Fyodor Vassilievitch in Part VIII.
Pyotr Ivanovitch Metrov	A Petersburg scholar visiting Katavasov, interested in the conditions of the working classes. Levin finds that their approaches to his agricultural subject diverge.
Pestsov	An intellectual and music enthusiast who debates education, women’s rights, and the arts with the dinner and concert company.
The district doctor	Treats Agafea’s injured wrist and discusses local public services with Sergey.
The visiting philosophy professor	An unnamed scholar from Harkov whose discussion with Sergey leaves Levin’s urgent personal questions unanswered.
The priest who marries Levin and Kitty	Hears Levin’s confession beforehand and asks how he will speak to future children about belief.
The doctors and priest at Nikolay’s death	A replacement doctor is brought after Nikolay loses confidence in the first. A priest attends his final decline. They are not identified as the Moscow wedding priest or Kitty’s doctors.
Princess Astafieva	Occupies a room at the hotel where Nikolay is dying; she is not one of his visitors or relatives.

Pokrovskoe, neighboring estates, and the people who work there

Character	Place in the novel
Agafea Mihalovna	Levin’s former nurse and longtime housekeeper, a trusted companion. She has to adjust to Kitty’s authority in the household and later delights in Mitya.
Kouzma	Levin’s old servant. He helps with the wedding preparations and later manages the Moscow household.
Ignat; Philip; Ivan	Coachmen in Levin’s household at different points: Ignat brings him home early in the novel; Philip serves the hunting party and drives Dolly to Anna; Ivan fetches Levin in the final part.
Vassily Fedorovitch; Sokolov	The estate bailiff is addressed as Vassily Fedorovitch early in the novel; Sokolov writes as Levin’s bailiff in Part VII. The text does not securely join the two forms into a full name.
Mihail, the counting-house clerk	Travels with Dolly for protection on her visit to Anna and Vronsky. He is not Anna’s later coachman of the same given name.
Philip, the gardener	Remembered by Nikolay from the brothers’ old home.
Piotr, the cook	A member of Levin’s household, mentioned by Kitty during their discussion of jealousy.
Dunyasha; Masha; Pasha	Maids in the wedding and married-household scenes. Kitty’s maid Masha is mentioned early in the marriage; Pasha assists as labor begins.
Marya Vlasyevna	The midwife caring for Kitty during her pregnancy in the country.
Lizaveta Petrovna	The midwife who helps deliver Mitya in Moscow.
Pyotr Dmitrievitch	The doctor whom Levin fetches for Kitty’s labor. His surname is not supplied.
Mitya’s nurse	An unnamed woman who cares for the baby. She and Kitty shelter him during the storm. Agafea and the midwives are separate people.
Nikolay, the cowman	An estate worker, distinct from Levin’s brother.
Vassily and Mishka	Workers in the spring sowing scenes. The laborer Vassily is not the bailiff Vassily Fedorovitch.
Ipat	A peasant whom Levin encounters while inspecting work in the fields.
Tit	The mower whose pace Levin follows when he joins the men cutting grass.
The old mower	Works near Levin and shares his meal. His skill and ease help Levin learn how to move with the scythe. The scene does not give him a name.
Yermil; Prohor Yermilin; Vaska; Mishka	Mowers named during the haymaking. Vaska has been a coachman. Similar names do not establish a father-and-son relationship between Yermil and Prohor.
Parmenitch	An old beekeeper, husband of the woman who nursed Levin’s brother and father of Ivan Parmenov.
Ivan Parmenov and his young wife	A peasant couple whom Levin watches working together at the hay. Their companionship enters his thoughts about the life he wants.
Fomitch; Mihalitch	Beekeepers addressed in different parts of the novel. Mihalitch is the old man questioned about the war near the end. Their shared occupation alone does not establish one combined identity.
Ivan, the cowherd	Discusses a farming partnership with Levin. He is not explicitly identified as Ivan Parmenov.
Fyodor Ryezunov	A carpenter involved in Levin’s proposed cooperative farming arrangements.
Shuraev	Involved in the garden partnership, which he tries to turn toward his own arrangements with other peasants.
Parfen Denisitch	An old servant whose death contributes to Levin’s thoughts about mortality.
Prohor	A peasant whom Levin helped with money for a horse; Agafea reports that he spent the money on drink and beat his wife.
Semyon	A contractor mentioned in the early estate business. A worker of the same given name is also mentioned; their identity is not settled.
Matrona	An older field worker whom Levin once treated after an injury in a fire. She is separate from Dolly’s nurse.
Fyodor, the thrasher	The worker whose account of Platon’s goodness prompts Levin’s final insight. The conversation is between Fyodor and Levin.
Platon — Uncle Fokanitch	A good peasant in Fyodor’s village, described as living for his soul and remembering God. He is the subject of Fyodor’s story and does not personally deliver its words to Levin.
Kirillov — Mituh	A former house porter and land tenant whose harsh collection of debts contrasts with Platon’s mercy. Mituh is not the baby Mitya.
Pyotr, the borrower	A man Levin decides to help escape a moneylender’s ruinous interest. He is not identified as Anna’s servant Pyotr or Levin’s cook.
Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky	A neighboring landowner, district marshal, and friend of both Levin and Vronsky. He discusses farming, hosts Levin, and is unanimously reelected district marshal during the provincial elections.
Masha Sviazhskaya	Sviazhsky’s wife. The couple have no children; her sister lives with them.
Nastia	Sviazhsky’s sister-in-law, involved in the local school. Her family hopes Levin may marry her; he never proposes.
Stepan Vassilievitch, the old-fashioned landowner	Meets Levin at Sviazhsky’s and again at the election. He defends older estate practices. His son is drawn to science, and his son-in-law needs a paid post.
Mihail Petrovitch	Another landowner in the agricultural conversation at Sviazhsky’s.
Marya Semyonovna	A woman whom Stepan Vassilievitch has advised to rent out her land. The conversation does not establish that she is his wife.
The prosperous peasant and his family	Levin stops at their household on the way to Sviazhsky’s; Dolly later rests at the same place. The man farms with a large working family, including married sons and a nephew.
Fedot; Finogen	Names heard in that prosperous farm household. The scene does not securely assign each a precise family position.
The Gvozdyov host and his wife	A different peasant household where Levin, Stiva, and Veslovsky stay while shooting. The wife’s brother is a soldier.
The soldier; Vaska and his elder brother	The soldier is the Gvozdyov hostess’s brother. Vaska is her younger son and his nephew; the elder boy goes with his father to watch the livestock.
The young woman at Dolly’s stopping place	Speaks of her baby daughter’s death as relief from crushing work. Her words disturb Dolly’s reflections on motherhood.
Uncle Gerasim	A peasant addressed by the roadside as Dolly’s party approaches Vronsky’s estate. “Uncle” does not by itself establish a family relation.
The carpenter and the German mechanician	The carpenter has built a faulty staircase at Levin’s lodge. The visiting mechanician shares the uncomfortable trap in which Veslovsky is sent away. They are separate workers.
Vassenka Veslovsky	A distant Shtcherbatsky cousin and Stiva’s friend. An amiable but careless shooting companion, he flirts with Kitty and is expelled by Levin. He then visits Anna and Vronsky.

Petersburg society, official life, and the army

Character	Place in the novel
Princess Betsy Tverskaya — Elizaveta Federovna	Vronsky’s cousin by birth and Anna’s cousin’s wife. She facilitates Anna and Vronsky’s meetings, yet later withholds full social acceptance from Anna.
Masha, Betsy’s young relation	A young provincial relation staying with Betsy for the summer. She accompanies Tushkevitch to the croquet ground.
Prince Tverskoy	Betsy’s husband and Anna’s cousin. A good-natured collector of engravings, he belongs to the fashionable circle around Betsy.
Tushkevitch	Betsy’s lover, later discarded. He carries her messages, obtains Anna’s theater box, and visits Anna and Vronsky in the country.
Princess Myakaya	An outspoken member of the society circle who defends Anna and questions the judgments of supposedly respectable people.
Princess Myakaya — Bibish	A woman contributing guns and nurses to the Serbian cause. The late conversation expressly distinguishes Bibish from Liza Myakaya; it does not explain their kinship.
Liza Merkalova	A married woman in Betsy’s circle, surrounded by admirers and fascinated by Anna. Stremov and Prince Kaluzhsky are among her attachments; her accommodating husband carries her shawl.
Stremov	Karenin’s rival in government and an admirer of Liza Merkalova, who is also his wife’s niece. He can speak courteously with Anna while opposing Karenin professionally.
Prince Kaluzhsky — Mishka	One of Liza Merkalova’s admirers. He is separate from the peasant boys and workers called Mishka.
Sappho Shtoltz — Baroness Shtoltz	A conspicuous fashionable woman in Betsy’s circle. Vaska is one of her admirers; the scene also mentions another.
Vaska, Sappho’s admirer	Accompanies Sappho in society. He is not identified as Veslovsky or the peasant boy Vaska.
Countess Lidia Ivanovna	Karenin’s religious confidante, in love with him. She intervenes in his household and Seryozha’s upbringing, then relies on the clairvoyant Landau.
Lidia’s estranged husband	An unnamed count who abandons her two months after their marriage.
Nadinka	Lidia’s niece, raised in her home, and a friend of Seryozha.
Jules Landau — Count Bezzubov	A French clairvoyant and former shop assistant, adopted by Countess Bezzubova. Karenin’s final divorce refusal follows the gathering at which Landau enters a real or pretended trance. Stiva understands the decision to depend on him.
Countess Bezzubova	Landau’s patron and adoptive mother. According to Princess Myakaya’s account, his supposed cure of her led to the adoption.
Yury Meledinsky and his wife	His wife brings Landau to see her invalid husband; the couple bring Landau to Russia. Even the story told about them questions how much good he did.
Sir John	A missionary discussed at Lidia’s gathering, admired by one of the Vlassieva girls.
Mihail Vassilievitch Sludin	Karenin’s conscientious chief secretary, professionally close without becoming his intimate confidant.
Count Anitchkin	Stiva’s superior and a beneficiary of promotion that Karenin finds painful to contemplate.
Pomorsky; Volgarinov	Men whose influence Stiva seeks for a well-paid railway and banking committee appointment. Volgarinov makes him wait and proves difficult to persuade.
Bartnyansky	Stiva’s Petersburg acquaintance and dinner host, consulted about debts and access to Mordvinsky.
Mordvinsky; Bryantsev	Mordvinsky is a possible source of help with Stiva’s appointment; Bryantsev is an acquaintance who has risen to high office.
Prince Yashvin	Vronsky’s closest regimental friend, a heavy gambler. He accepts Anna socially. After losing everything, he persuades the bereaved Vronsky to leave with him for Serbia.
Petritsky — Pierre	Vronsky’s lieutenant friend and roommate. The nickname “Pierre” abbreviates Petritsky.
Baroness Shilton	Petritsky’s lover, separated from her husband, and an old acquaintance of Vronsky. She is not presented as Vronsky’s mistress.
Kamerovsky	A cavalry captain in Vronsky and Petritsky’s social company.
Serpuhovskoy	Vronsky’s childhood and military-school friend, now a successful general. He encourages Vronsky’s ambitions and later remains friendly after judging his career lost.
Serpuhovskoy’s wife	An unnamed woman whose place in her husband’s successful life informs his advice about marriage and ambition.
Demin — Gritsky	The regimental commander who welcomes Serpuhovskoy. The text identifies him by both forms.
Bondarenko	The quartermaster in the regimental celebration.
Tereshtchenko	The orderly who brings supplies during Petritsky’s drinking scene.
Prince Kedrov; Venden and his wife	Kedrov and Petritsky harass the pregnant wife of Venden, a government clerk, after mistaking her response for encouragement. Vronsky negotiates an apology; he was not one of the two men who pursued her.
Galtsin; Colonel Sestrin	Galtsin is Vronsky’s friend and a formidable racing rival; Sestrin starts the officers’ steeplechase.
Mahotin, the racing officer	Vronsky’s chief rival in the officers’ steeplechase, riding Gladiator. A Mahotin also appears later as Lvov’s court-service colleague; the later scene does not explain the connection.
Kuzovlev	The officer riding Diana in the steeplechase. He falls during the race; another, unnamed officer suffers the fatal injury.
Cord	The English trainer preparing Frou-Frou for Vronsky’s race. The much later account of Hannah’s father leaves that English trainer unnamed.
Bryansky; Venovsky	Bryansky is connected with money Vronsky owes for a horse; Venovsky’s gambling debt becomes Vronsky’s responsibility as guarantor.
Pyevtsov	Loses heavily to Yashvin in the Moscow gambling scenes. Yashvin’s later ruin is a subsequent reversal.
Voytov	Buys Vronsky’s horse Gambetta and visits the household during Anna’s final days.
Lankovsky	Owner of Powerful, the horse Yashvin recommends to Vronsky.
The visiting foreign prince	Vronsky entertains him through a round of Russian diversions. The prince’s appetite for amusement becomes repellent to his escort.

Karenin’s household and Seryozha’s teachers

Character	Place in the novel
Korney — Korney Vassilievitch	Karenin’s valet, who actually keeps the household running under Lidia’s nominal supervision. He disapproves of Anna’s birthday visit.
Kapitonitch	The hall porter, warmly attached to Seryozha. He recognizes Anna and lets her enter the house. His own unnamed daughter is a ballet dancer.
Marya Efimovna	Seryozha’s old nurse, now living with her daughter. She returns for his birthday and helps Anna leave after the reunion.
Vassily Lukitch	Seryozha’s resident tutor after Anna’s departure. He understands the boy’s distress and delays interrupting the birthday meeting.
Mihail Ivanitch	A visiting grammar teacher, present in Seryozha’s lessons.
Sitnikov	Entrusted with overseeing Seryozha’s secular education.
Piotr Ignatitch	Described as the most important of Seryozha’s teachers. The text does not explicitly join this name to Sitnikov.
Mariette	Seryozha’s governess in the early household.
Miss Edwarde	An English governess brought into the household during Anna’s illness.
Kondraty	A carriage servant or driver in the Karenin household.
Prince Skorodumov	Anna names him as her sender to get past the porter on Seryozha’s birthday.
The hall porter’s assistant	The younger servant who initially questions Anna at the door before Kapitonitch admits her.
The bandaged clerk and his children	Petitioners whose troubles Seryozha follows through conversations with Kapitonitch. Karenin’s help matters to the boy’s view of his father.
Piotr, Karenin’s traveling servant	Arranges a carriage when Karenin receives Anna’s urgent telegram in Moscow.
The midwife, doctors, and nurses during Anna’s confinement	Care for Anna and the newborn Annie. An older family nurse and the baby’s wet-nurse are separate attendants; Miss Edwarde alerts Karenin when the wet-nurse seems unable to feed the baby.
Karenin’s goddaughter	An elder daughter in a musical family Karenin visits during his official travels.
Karenin’s physician	Examines Karenin at Lidia’s private request when work and domestic distress are exhausting him. He is also Sludin’s old university friend.
Karenin’s lawyer	An unnamed lawyer consulted about divorce, more interested in the practical means of proving adultery than in Karenin’s suffering.

Italy, Anna’s later household, and her last journeys

Character	Place in the novel
Golenishtchev	Vronsky’s former comrade from the Corps of Pages, encountered in Italy. He writes a work called Two Elements and introduces the expatriate artistic circle.
Mihailov	The Russian painter whose picture Vronsky buys and who paints Anna’s portrait. He is neither Anna’s lover nor the teacher directing Vronsky’s painting studies.
Sasha	Mihailov’s wife. Their domestic quarrel and reconciliation frame part of the studio visit. They have children, including an unnamed eldest daughter.
Mihailov’s landlady; the cigar seller	The landlady presses for rent. The shopkeeper’s face helps Mihailov solve a drawing problem.
The Italian painting professor	Gives Vronsky artistic instruction. He is distinct from Mihailov.
Rossi	Host of the soirée where Golenishtchev and Mihailov previously met.
Madame Vassiltchikova	The subject of an earlier portrait by Mihailov.
The Italian nurse and her son	The nurse cares for Annie and models for Vronsky, provoking Anna’s jealousy. The nurse’s own little boy is a separate child.
Annie’s English nurse and Russian nursery maid	Care for the baby in the country household; the Italian wet nurse is also retained there.
The French maid and the stylish country-house maid	Additional attendants in Anna’s changing households, distinct from Annushka.
Hannah	The English girl Anna takes into her home and teaches. Anna also prepares Hannah’s brothers in Russian for school. Hannah is not Annie and is not a governess.
Hannah’s father and brothers	Her father is an unnamed English trainer employed by Vronsky who becomes severely alcoholic; Anna supports his family. The narrative does not explicitly identify him as Cord.
Ivan Petrovitch Vorkuev — once printed Vorknev	A publisher who reads Anna’s children’s manuscript and visits her. Levin meets him at Anna’s house.
Vassily Semyonitch	The doctor working at Vronsky’s estate and hospital, discussing a sick woman with Anna.
Karl Fedoritch	Vronsky’s German estate steward, capable but inclined to inflate projected expenditure.
The hospital architect	Designs Vronsky’s hospital and talks with Anna about the building.
Madame Kartasova and her husband	At the opera, she humiliates Anna while her husband attempts courtesy and tries to calm his wife.
Princess Sorokina and her daughter	The older princess and the young woman Countess Vronskaya favors as a bride for Alexey. They bring money and deeds from his mother.
Pyotr, Anna’s attendant	Accompanies Anna during her final carriage and railway journey, handles luggage, and obtains her ticket.
Mihail, Anna’s coachman	Carries Anna’s note and brings Vronsky’s reply to the station. He is separate from Levin’s counting-house clerk.
Fyodor, Anna’s coachman	Named during Anna’s final journey. He is not Fyodor the thrasher or Professor Katavasov.
Wilson	The woman Anna visits to take some dresses shortly before her death.
The railway guard killed at the Moscow station	An unnamed worker crushed by a train at the Moscow station. Vronsky gives money for his widow and family. The narrative leaves the immediate cause uncertain; the crowd’s cry that he threw himself under the train is not a settled account.
The peasant in Anna’s nightmare	A recurring dream figure bent over iron and muttering French. He is not identified as the actual dead guard. Real workers and sounds later call the dream back to Anna.

The provincial election and the Serbian volunteers

Character	Place in the novel
Mihail Stepanovitch Snetkov	The longstanding provincial marshal, supported by the older party. Levin sees the affectionate family life behind his official role. He ultimately loses the office.
Snetkov’s wife, daughter, granddaughter, and son	The family Levin encounters at his home: a grandmother with her daughter’s child, and a schoolboy affectionate toward his father.
Nevyedovsky	Sergey’s friend and a former professor. With support from Sergey, Sviazhsky, Stiva, and Vronsky, he wins the provincial marshalship after repeatedly disclaiming ambition for the post.
Hliustov	A district marshal allied with Sergey and Sviazhsky during the election maneuvers.
Flerov	A nobleman whose eligibility to vote is disputed because of a charge against him. He is admitted to voting; this is not his election to office.
Yevgeney Ivanovitch Apuhtin; Pyotr Petrovitch Bol	Men called as possible candidates who decline.
Maslov — little Katka	The male provincial governor, a general and Vronsky’s former schoolmate. His wife organizes a benefit concert for the Serbian cause.
Shirkov	Vronsky’s old friend, a finance official and bank director, who lends him his Kashin house for election entertaining.
Sventitsky, the deputy prosecutor	A guest remarks that Vronsky’s valet looks like him. The resemblance establishes no family relationship.
Marya Ivanovna	The woman to whom the governor asks Snetkov to convey his wife’s regrets about missing an event. The scene does not explicitly state her relationship to Snetkov.
The court-of-wardship secretary; the notary, solicitor, and court president	Officials involved in the elections or in the delays over Levin’s sister’s money. Levin’s business stalls while the president is away at the election.
The old assembly waiter	Gives Levin a respite from the hostile election atmosphere, showing him how to fold napkins and later offering food.
The unnamed princess seeing off volunteers	Talks to Sergey at the station about departures and asks him to assist a volunteer sent by Lidia. She is not identified as Betsy or either Princess Myakaya.
Dimer-Bartnyansky	A volunteer leaving after a farewell dinner. The text does not identify him with Stiva’s dinner host Bartnyansky.
Grisha Veselovsky — Garnett: Veslovsky	A recently married volunteer mentioned at the station. His surname in Russian differs from Vassenka Veslovsky’s, though Garnett renders both as Veslovsky.
The volunteers Katavasov meets	Men whose conversation makes him question the heroic picture offered by public enthusiasm. Their accounts of themselves leave Katavasov doubtful.
Ivan Ivanovitch Ragozov	Named in the old prince’s sarcastic question about who has undertaken to declare war on the public’s behalf.

Brief appearances and names heard in conversation

These people have little or no independent story in the novel. Their immediate context is often all that is given.

Character	Where the name belongs
Alabin	Appears in Stiva’s dream at the opening.
Staff Captain Kalinin’s widow; Fomin	The widow petitions Stiva. Fomin’s name occurs in office business.
Countess Bonina; Prince Golistin	Bonina appears in Moscow dancing society; a waiter says Golistin is dining at the restaurant.
Princess Shahovskaya and Brenteln	A marriage mentioned as an example of Dolly’s successful predictions.
Bobrishtchevs, Nikitins, Mezhkovs, Sarmatskys	Families named as hosts of social events; the Sarmatskys give a children’s ball attended by Tanya and Grisha.
Krivin; Ivan Ivanovitch; the Eletsky girl	Names from the Moscow ball and its gossip. An Ivan Petrovitch is separately addressed at the railway carriage; no surname is supplied there.
Ignatov	A possible companion in Vronsky’s early plans for cards and champagne.
Berkoshov; Buzulukov; Volkov	Names in the officers’ conversation: a threatened duel, a comic sweetmeat-and-helmet incident, and a drunken roof episode.
Laura, Fertinghof, Mileev	Petritsky’s gossip says Laura has left Fertinghof for Mileev.
Claire; Numerova	Performers mentioned in the officers’ social world.
Pravdin	A Panslavist abroad with whom Lidia corresponds.
The Maltishtcheva mother and daughter; the Schützburgs	Names in Petersburg salon gossip and recollections of entertaining.
The Vlassieva girls; Topov	One girl admires Sir John; the younger girl is said to be marrying Topov.
Madame Vrede	The hostess whose garden provides a place for Anna and Vronsky to meet.
Madame Rolandak; Rolandak	A society name and a name in Vronsky’s horse business. The text does not supply enough to construct a marriage or another link between them.
Princess Myakaya’s and Betsy’s salon guests	The ambassador’s wife, diplomatic attaché, and other unnamed guests help circulate judgments about Anna.
Matrona Semyenovna	A woman in the princess’s household, mentioned when gifts for servants are discussed.
Natalia Golitzina	A woman whose recent death the princess invokes as a warning about childbirth care. She is not Natalia Lvova.
Marya Vassilievna; Marie in lilac	Briefly named people in the wedding crowd. Their family identities are not developed.
The old prince’s sick aunt	Her possible death threatens to delay Kitty’s wedding through mourning. The passage does not say that she dies.
Countess Marya Borissovna; Princess Vatkovskaya; Putyatov	Names in the court and honors discussion. Putyatov receives the same order awarded to Karenin. The countess is not securely identified with Kitty’s godmother, a princess.
Ristitch-Kudzhitsky	An earlier object of Lidia’s enthusiastic admiration.
Kruzin; Yegor and his wife; Fyodor at the opera	Kruzin’s stall is available; Vronsky expects Yegor and his wife to attend; Fyodor is the name given for obtaining service at the boxes.
Biryuzovsky and Madame Avenieva; Vassiliev and Madame Mamonova	Couples invoked by Princess Varvara as precedents for tolerated irregular relationships.
Sam Nikandrov; Liza Neptunova	Further names in Varvara’s examples.
Myaskin; Dolgovushin	Myaskin is a gambler Levin sees returning to the hotel; Dolgovushin is someone Stiva intends to visit during his Moscow calls.
Vasya Pryatchnikov; Kvitsky	Turovtsin reports that Pryatchnikov has killed Kvitsky in a duel over Pryatchnikov’s wife.
Thérèse	An actress mentioned in Anna’s jealous questioning about Vronsky’s entertainment of the foreign prince.
Daryalov; Poltavsky; Prince Karibanov; Count Paskudin; Dram; Semyonov; Tchagin; Sigonin	Men Karenin recalls as examples of husbands with unfaithful wives.
Mazankov; Krupov	Men whose careers Serpuhovskoy believes were damaged by attachments to women.
Bertenev; Vassiltchikov; Countess Paul	Names in a political remark, an example of successful farming, and Miss Edwarde’s memory of another baby’s feeding problem, respectively.
Alioshka	A peasant in Levin’s complaint about court proceedings over stolen bacon.
Malthus	A wealthy railway speculator and Stiva’s sporting host.
Meidel	An orator compared with Sergey at the election.
Svintitch; Ment	A scientist being honored at a jubilee and the poet who sends verses for it.
Princess Korzinskaya; Madame Apraksina	Topics of Moscow conversation. Apraksina’s sudden death and funeral are discussed.
Vashtchenkov	A painter whose latest pictures are discussed at Anna’s.
Liza Mertsalova	Connected with prison charity; Anna recalls buying prisoners’ handicrafts from her. The late passage uses Mertsalova rather than Merkalova.
Marya Petrovna	Her illness is a topic of conversation during Kitty’s labor.
Petrov the bank director; Sventitsky the company director; Mitin	Examples of high financial-sector incomes. Petrov is not identified with the sick painter; Sventitsky’s financial role is not explained as a continuation of the deputy prosecutor’s. Mitin has founded a bank.
Zhivahov; Count Krivtsov; Petrovsky	Stiva’s examples of men maintaining lavish lives despite debt or losses. Krivtsov has two unnamed mistresses; Petrovsky gains a financial appointment after spending a fortune.
Madame Borozdina; Marie Sanina	Borozdina seeks an appointment with Lidia. Sanina, whose only child has died, is invoked by Lidia as an example of religious consolation.
Katerina Andreevna	A name called out during the bustle of Anna’s final railway journey; no secure family connection is given.
Drabanti; Golubtsov; Malvinsky	Drabanti is the singer discussed in an article mocking Sergey’s book; Golubtsov once hosted Sergey and his future reviewer; Malvinsky disputes the station princess’s count of volunteers.

Named animals

Animal	Place in the story
Laska	Levin’s female gun dog, often called a setter. Her tracking and hunting perceptions receive sustained attention.
Krak	Stiva’s male pointer, brought on the shooting expedition with Levin and Veslovsky.
Frou-Frou	Vronsky’s race mare. His mistake over the final obstacle breaks her back; she must be put down. The novel does not identify the shooter.
Gladiator	Mahotin’s racehorse and Frou-Frou’s chief rival.
Diana	Kuzovlev’s mare in the officers’ race.
Powerful	Lankovsky’s horse, recommended to Vronsky by Yashvin.
Atlas	Vronsky’s later winning racehorse, celebrated at the club.
Gambetta	Vronsky’s horse sold to Voytov near the end of Anna’s story.
Kolpik; Beauty	Horses used in Levin’s riding and household transport. Beauty becomes lame after bad shoeing in Moscow.
Raven	A name used for horses in the country-house scenes, including the restive horse replaced for Dolly’s outing and the horse that brings Levin home in Part VIII.
Brownie	The Oblonsky estate bailiff’s horse, borrowed for Dolly and her children’s country outings.
Pava; Hollandka; Berkoot	Cattle at Levin’s estate: Pava and Hollandka are cows; Berkoot is the bull who fathers Pava’s calf.
Brindle; Whitebreast	Cows in the Oblonsky country-house arrangements.

Where the story leaves everyone

Person or household	Final position
Anna	Dies by suicide beneath a train at Obiralovka in Part VII.
Vronsky	Alive at his final appearance, devastated by Anna’s death and leaving for the Serbian war with a squadron funded at his own expense. His later fate is not narrated.
Karenin, Seryozha, and Annie	Seryozha remains with his father. Countess Vronskaya reports that Karenin has also taken Annie, with Vronsky’s initial consent.
Kitty, Levin, and Mitya	Together at Pokrovskoe. Kitty and the baby survive the storm unharmed. Levin’s inward discovery gives him a way to understand and direct his life without curing every ordinary irritation.
Dolly and the children	Staying at the Levins’ estate. Dolly considers separation from Stiva but agrees to sell property to meet his debts; the novel does not give them a completed separation.
Stiva	Obtains the salaried committee appointment he has been seeking. His family’s financial strain persists.
Sergey Koznishev	His book has failed to win the response he hoped for. He supports the Serbian movement, travels to Levin’s, and disagrees with his brother about the war.
Varenka	No engagement or marriage to Sergey occurs. The novel supplies no later marriage for her.
Nikolay Levin	Dies in Part V. Kitty’s pregnancy is discovered during the same visit.

Anna’s death does not end the novel. At Pokrovskoe, Dolly and her children remain dependent on the hospitality of Kitty and Levin. Sergey brings the argument about the war into his brother’s home. In the nursery, Kitty and Levin watch Mitya recognize the people around him. On the terrace afterward, Kitty asks Levin to check whether Sergey’s guest room has its new washstand. He kisses her and agrees, keeping his new understanding to himself.

For other ways into Tolstoy’s fiction, continue with his reading guides and essays.

Source

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Constance Garnett (1901), Project Gutenberg eBook 1399, complete in eight parts. Gutenberg lists this text as public domain in the United States. Its full HTML text is the base edition for the names and relationships here.

The distinction between Vassenka Veslovsky and the volunteer Grisha Veselovsky was checked against the Russian text in Tolstoy’s scholarly collected works, volume 19, Part VIII, chapter II. Romanizations differ between translations; familiar forms such as Shcherbatsky, Koznyshev and Mikhailov may therefore look different in another edition.