Vassily Lukitch

Role: tutor · First appears: PART FIVE · Chapter 26

PART FIVE · Chapter 26

• pupil: Seryozha (Vassily Lukitch is explicitly identified as Seryozha’s tutor.) “‘Seryozha!’ said the tutor, stopping in the doorway leading to the inner rooms. ‘Take it off yourself.’ But Seryozha, though he heard his tutor’s feeble voice, did not pay attention to it. He stood keeping hold of the hall-porter’s belt, and gazing into his face. ‘Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him?’ The hall-porter nodded his head affirmatively. The clerk with his face tied up, who had already been seven times to ask some favor of Alexey Alexandrovitch, interested both Seryozha and the hall-porter. Seryozha had come upon him in the hall, and had heard him plaintively beg the hall-porter to announce him, saying that he and his children had death staring them in the face. Since then Seryozha, having met him a second time in the hall, took great interest in him. ‘Well, was he very glad?’ he asked. ‘Glad? I should think so! Almost dancing as he walked away.’ ‘And has anything been left?’ asked Seryozha, after a pause. ‘Come, sir,’ said the hall-porter; then with a shake of his head he whispered, ‘Something from the countess.’ Seryozha understood at once that what the hall-porter was speaking of was a present from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for his birthday. ‘What do you say? Where?’ ‘Korney took it to your papa. A fine plaything it must be too!’ ‘How big? Like this?’ ‘Rather small, but a fine thing.’ ‘A book.’ ‘No, a thing. Run along, run along, Vassily Lukitch is calling you,’ said the porter, hearing the tutor’s steps approaching, and carefully taking away from his belt the little hand in the glove half pulled off, he signed with his head towards the tutor. ‘Vassily Lukitch, in a tiny minute!’ answered Seryozha with that gay and loving smile which always won over the conscientious Vassily Lukitch.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 27

• with Seryozha (Vassily Lukitch showed Seryozha how to make windmills.) “Vassily Lukitch was in a good humor, and showed him how to make windmills.”
• pupil: Seryozha (Seryozha learned from Vassily Lukitch.) “And he learned from Kapitonitch, from his nurse, from Nadinka, from Vassily Lukitch, but not from his teachers.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 30

• with Seryozha (interaction) “Reflecting finally that his duty was to get Seryozha up at the hour fixed, and that it was therefore not his business to consider who was there, the mother or anyone else, but simply to do his duty”

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