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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Anna | Anna Arkadyevna Karenina is the wife of a powerful bureaucrat, Karenin, and sister of Stiva. Read More |
| Levin | Konstantin (Kostya) Dmitrich Levin is a nobleman who farms and manages his own estate. Read More |
| Karenin | Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin is the middle-aged husband of Anna and an important government official. Read More |
| Vronsky | Count Alexei (Alyosha) Kirillovich Vronsky is a handsome military officer who falls in love with Anna. Read More |
| Kitty | Princess Ekaterina (Kitty) Alexandrovna Shcherbatsky is the youngest daughter of Prince Shcherbatsky and later the wife of Levin. Read More |
| Stiva | Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyich Oblonsky is Anna's brother and Dolly's irresponsible husband. Read More |
| Dolly | Princess Darya (Dolly) Alexandrovna Oblonsky is Kitty's eldest sister and wife of Stiva; she is the mother of several children. Read More |
| Agafya Mikhailovna | Agafya Mikhailovna is Levin's housekeeper and former nurse. |
| Annushka | Annushka is Anna's lady's maid. |
| Chirikov | Chirikov is a comrade of Levin who goes bear hunting with him. |
| Golenishchev | Golenishchev is an old acquaintance of Vronsky. The two of them reconnect while Anna and Vronsky are in Italy. |
| Kapitonych | Kapitonych is the hall porter at the Karenin home. |
| Annie Karenina | Annie is Anna and Vronsky's baby girl. |
| Seryozha Alexeich Karenin | Sergei (Kutik or Seryozha) Alexeich Karenin is the young son of Anna and Karenin. |
| Fyodor Vasilyevich Katavasov | Fyodor Vasilyevich Katavasov is a professor at the university and Levin's friend. |
| Princess Katerina Pavlovna | Princess Katerina Pavlovna is Anna's aunt and the woman who raised her. |
| Kornei (Vasily) Vasilyevich | Kornei (Vasily) Vasilyevich is Karenin's valet. |
| Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev | Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev is Levin's older half-brother and a famous writer. |
| Kuzma | Kuzma is Levin's servant. |
| Landau | Landau is a religious crank and alleged clairvoyant that has been taken up by Lydia and Karenin. He tells Karenin not to grant Anna a divorce. |
| Dmitri Levin | Dmitri Levin is Kitty and Levin's new baby. |
| Nikolai Dmitrich Levin | Nikolai Dmitrich Levin is Konstantin Levin's sick and impoverished brother and Koznyshev's half-brother. |
| Mademoiselle Linon | Mademoiselle Linon is Kitty's French governess. |
| Lizaveta Petrovna | Lizaveta Petrovna is Kitty's midwife. |
| Prince Arseny Lvov | Prince Arseny Lvov is the husband of Natalie and loving father of two sons. |
| Princess Natalya Alexandrovna Lvov | Princess Natalya Alexandrovna, whose maiden name is Shcherbatsky, is Dolly and Kitty's middle sister and the wife of Prince Lvov. |
| Countess Lydia Ivanovna | Countess Lydia Ivanovna is a close friend of Karenin and a religious fanatic. |
| Princess Marya Borisovna | Princess Marya Borisovna is Kitty's godmother. |
| Marya Efimovna | Marya Efimovna is Seryozha's old nanny. |
| Marya Nikolaevna | Marya (Masha) Nikolaevna is Nikolai Levin's common-law wife. |
| Matryona Filimonovna | Matryona (Matryosha) Filimonovna is the nanny of the Oblonsky children. |
| Matvie | Matvie is Stiva's valet. |
| Metrov | Metrov is a famous scholar whom Katavasov introduces to Levin so they can speak about his book. |
| Princess Miagky | Princess Miagky is an outspoken member of Betsy's circle who tells the truth, whether or not it is polite. |
| Mikhaila | Mikhaila is the coachman that Anna sends to Vronsky with messages on the day she commits suicide. |
| Mikhailov | Mikhailov is a talented Russian painter Anna and Vronsky meet in Italy; he paints Anna's portrait. |
| Nastya | Nastya is Sviyazhsky's sister-in-law, whom he would like to match up with Levin. |
| Countess Nordston | Countess Nordston is a friend of Kitty who dislikes Levin. |
| Alyosha Oblonsky | Alyosha Oblonsky is the son of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Grisha Oblonsky | Grisha Oblonsky is the son of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Lily Oblonsky | Lily Oblonsky is the daughter of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Masha Oblonsky | Masha Oblonsky is the daughter of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Nikolenka Oblonsky | Nikolenka Oblonsky is the son of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Tanya Oblonsky | Tanya Oblonsky is the daughter of Dolly and Stiva Oblonsky. |
| Princess Varvara Oblonsky | Princess Varvara Oblonsky is Stiva and Anna's aunt. She latches onto Anna after she is shunned by society. |
| Pestov | Pestov is a liberal and intellectual friend of Koznyshev. |
| Lieutenant Petritsky | Lieutenant Petritsky is a friend and sometime roommate of Vronsky. |
| Mademoiselle Roland | Mademoiselle Roland, the French governess of the Oblonsky children, becomes Stiva's mistress. |
| Ryabinin | Ryabinin is the merchant who buys Dolly's wood from Stiva at a greatly reduced price. |
| General Serpukhovskoy | General (Prince) Serpukhovskoy is an old friend and schoolmate of Vronsky who obtains a post for him in Tashkent. |
| Prince Alexander Dmitrievich Shcherbatsky | Prince Alexander Dmitrievich (Alexandre) Shcherbatsky is the father of Kitty, Dolly, and Natalie; he wants Kitty to marry Levin. |
| Princess Shcherbatsky | Princess Shcherbatsky is the mother of Dolly, Natalie, and Kitty; she initially wants Kitty to marry Vronsky. |
| Baroness Shilton | Baroness Shilton is Petritsky's lover and a woman trying to get a divorce from her husband. |
| Slyudin | Slyudin is Karenin's office manager. |
| Princess Sorokin | Princess Sorokin is a friend of the Vronskys, whom the countess would like her son Alexei to marry if he will only drop Anna. |
| Madame Stahl | Madame Stahl is a religious invalid and the guardian of Varenka. |
| Stremov | Stremov is a high-level bureaucrat and Karenin's rival who wins a post that Karenin was hoping to get. |
| Nikolai Ivanovich Sviyazhsky | Nikolai Ivanovich Sviyazhsky is a friend of Levin and a marshal of nobility in his district. |
| Turovtsyn | Turovtsyn is a friend of Stiva and Dolly's, who helps Dolly nurse the children through scarlet fever; he has a crush on her. |
| Tushkevich | Tushkevich is Betsy's lover whom she eventually casts off. |
| Princess Betsy Fyodorovna Tverskoy | Princess Elizaveta (Betsy) Fyodorovna Tverskoy is Vronsky's first cousin and Anna's confidante. |
| Varvara (Varenka) Andreevna | Varvara (Varenka) Andreevna is a friend of Kitty's and a religious and intellectual woman. |
| Vasily Lukich | Vasily Lukich is Seryozha's tutor. |
| Vasenka Veslovsky | Vasenka (Vaska) Veslovsky is a friend of Stiva and a foppish flirt. |
| Alexander Kirillovich Vronsky | Alexander Kirillovich Vronsky is Alexei Vronsky's brother. |
| Countess Vronsky | Countess Vronsky is the mother of Alexei and Alexander; she disapproves of Alexei's liaison with Anna once it gets serious. |
| Varya (Varvara) Vronsky | Varya (Varvara) Vronsky is the wife of Alexander Vronsky. |
| Captain Yashvin | Captain (or Prince) Yashvin is Vronsky's best friend and an inveterate gambler. |
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