Editing Anna Karenina (section)

==Main characters==
[[File:Anna Karenina family tree EN.jpg|400px|thumbnail|Anna Karenina [[family tree]]]]
* Anna Arkadyevna Karenina ({{lang|ru|Анна Аркадьевна Каренина}}): Stepan Oblonsky's sister, Karenin's wife and Vronsky's lover.
* Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky ({{lang|ru|Алексей Кириллович Вронский}}): Anna's lover, [[cavalry]] officer.
* Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevich Oblonsky ({{lang|ru|Степан "Стива" Аркадьевич Облонский}}): [[Civil service|civil servant]] and Anna's brother, man about town, 34 years of age. (Stepan and Stiva are Russianized forms of ''Stephen'' and ''Steve'', respectively.)
* Princess Darya "Dolly" Alexandrovna Oblonskaya ({{lang|ru|Дарья "Долли" Александровна Облонская}}): Stepan's wife, 33 years of age.
* Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin ({{lang|ru|Алексей Александрович Каренин}}): senior statesman and Anna's husband, twenty years her senior.
* Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievich Levin/Lyovin ({{lang|ru|Константин "Костя" Дмитриевич Лёвин}}): Kitty's suitor, Stiva's old friend, landowner, 32 years of age. He is often considered to be Tolstoy's alter ego.
* Nikolai Dmitrievich Levin/Lyovin ({{lang|ru|Николай Дмитриевич Лёвин}}): Konstantin's elder brother, impoverished alcoholic.
* Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev ({{lang|ru|Сергей Иванович Кознышев}}): Konstantin's half-brother, celebrated writer, 40 years of age.
* Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ({{lang|ru|Екатерина "Кити" Александровна Щербацкая}}): Dolly's younger sister and later Levin's wife, 18 years of age.
* Prince Alexander Shcherbatsky ({{lang|ru|Александр Щербацкий}}): Dolly and Kitty's father.
* Princess Shcherbatsky (no name or patronymic given): Dolly and Kitty's mother.
* Princess Elizaveta "Betsy" Tverskaya ({{lang|ru|Елизавета "Бетси" Тверская}}): Anna's wealthy, morally loose society friend and Vronsky's cousin.
* Countess Lidia (or Lydia) Ivanovna ({{lang|ru|Лидия Ивановна}}): leader of a high society circle that includes Karenin, and shuns Princess Betsy and her circle. She maintains an interest in Russian Orthodoxy, mysticism and spirituality.
* Countess Vronskaya: Vronsky's mother.
* Sergei "Seryozha" Alexeyich Karenin ({{lang|ru|Сергей "Серёжа" Каренин}}): Anna and Karenin's son, 8 years of age.
* Anna "Annie" ({{lang|ru|Анна "Ани"}}): Anna and Vronsky's daughter.
* Agafya Mikhailovna ({{lang|ru|Агафья Михайловнa}}): Levin's former nurse, now his trusted housekeeper.