Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky

Also known as: Nikolay Ivanovitch / Sviazhsky · Role: landowner · First appears: PART THREE · Chapter 25

Life events

• Madame Sviazhskaya reveals that an expert found the Sviazhskys’ property management incurred a loss.(PART THREE · Chapter 27)
  • With: Levin Madame Sviazhskaya
  • “Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a German expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.”

PART THREE · Chapter 25

• with Levin (Levin is traveling to Sviazhsky.) “‘Well, sir, are you going to Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky? His honor comes to us too,’ he began, chatting, leaning his elbows on the railing of the steps.”

PART THREE · Chapter 27

• with Mihail Petrovitch (Fellow landowners engaged in discussing agricultural management.) “‘But you see we manage our land without such extreme measures,’ said he, smiling: ‘Levin and I and this gentleman.’ He indicated the other landowner. ‘Yes, the thing’s done at Mihail Petrovitch’s, but ask him how it’s done. Do you call that a rational system?’ said the landowner, obviously rather proud of the word ‘rational.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.