Anna Karenina
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
Characters in Anna Karenina
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Anna Karenina
A married aristocrat in Petersburg society whose passionate affair with Count Vronsky defies the conventions of her world.
Konstantin Levin
A philosophical landowner whose parallel search for love and meaning counterbalances Anna's story.
Supporting characters
Alexei Karenin
Anna's husband, a high-ranking government official whose rigid propriety masks his own capacity for suffering.
Count Alexei Vronsky
The wealthy cavalry officer whose pursuit of Anna upends both their lives.
Kitty Shcherbatskaya
A young woman whose romantic disappointment early on gives way to a hard-won happiness with Levin.
Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevitch Oblonsky
Anna's affable, unfaithful brother, whose own marital crisis opens the novel and brings Anna to Moscow.