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Main characters

• Anna Arkadyevna Karenina – Stepan Oblonsky's sister, Karenin's wife and Vronsky's lover
• Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky – Lover of Anna
• Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky ("Stiva") – a civil servant and Anna's brother.
• Princess Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya ("Dolly") – Stepan's wife
• Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin – a senior statesman and Anna's husband, twenty years her senior.
• Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin ("Kostya") – Kitty's suitor and then husband.
• Nikolai Levin – Konstantin's brother
• Sergius Ivanich Koznyshev; Konstantin's half-brother
• Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ("Kitty") – Dolly's younger sister and later Levin's wife
• Princess Elizaveta ("Betsy") – Anna's wealthy, morally loose society friend and Vronsky's cousin
• Countess Lidia Ivanovna – Leader of a high society circle that includes Karenin, and shuns Princess Betsy and her circle. She maintains an interest in the mystical and spiritual
• Countess Vronskaya – Vronsky's mother
• Sergei Alexeyitch Karenin ("Seryozha") – Anna and Karenin's son
• Anna ("Annie") – Anna and Vronsky's daughter
• Varenka – a young orphaned girl, semi-adopted by an ailing Russian noblewoman, whom Kitty befriends while abroad