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CHARACTERS

ARKÁDY SERGÉICH ISLÁEV (Arkásha), a wealthy landowner, thirty-six

NATÁLYA PETRÓVNA (Natásha), his wife, twenty-nine

KÓLYA, their son, ten

VÉRA ALEXÁNDROVNA (Vérochka), their ward, seventeen

ÁNNA SEMYÓNOVNA ISLÁEVA, Islaev’s mother, fifty-eight

LIZAVÉTA BOGDÁNOVNA (Líza), her companion, thirty-seven

ADÁM IVÁNOVICH SCHÁAF, a German tutor, forty-five

MIKHÁIL ALEXÁNDROVICH RAKÍTIN (Michel), a friend of the house, thirty

ALEXÉI NIKOLÁEVICH BELYÁEV, a student, Kolya’s Russian teacher, twenty-one

AFANÁSY IVÁNOVICH BOLSHINTSÓV, a neighbor, forty-eight

IGNÁTY ILYÍCH SHPIGÉLSKY, a doctor, forty

MATVÉI, a servant, forty

KÁTYA, a maid, twenty

The action takes place on Islaev’s estate in the early 1840s. A day passes between Acts One and Two, Two and Three, and Four and Five.