Characters in Anna Karenina

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.

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.

Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya

Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky