Shtcherbatsky — Minor Figures

5 figures from Anna Karenina who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Prince Shtcherbatsky

prince · first appears PART FIVE · Chapter 1

PART FIVE · Chapter 1 · with Levin “‘You’re about, I hear, to marry the daughter of my parishioner and son in the spirit, Prince Shtcherbatsky?’ he resumed, with a smile.”

maid · first appears PART FIVE · Chapter 2

PART FIVE · Chapter 2 · employer: Kitty “She was sitting on a chest and making some arrangements with her maid, sorting over heaps of dresses of different colors, spread on the backs of chairs and on the floor. ‘Ah!’ she cried, seeing him, and beaming with delight. ‘Kostya! Konstantin Dmitrievitch!’ (These latter days she used these names almost alternately.) ‘I didn’t expect you! I’m going through my wardrobe to see what’s for whom....’ ‘Oh! that’s very nice!’ he said gloomily, looking at the maid. ‘You can go, Dunyasha, I’ll call you presently,’ said Kitty.”

prince · first appears PART TWO · Chapter 30

PART TWO · Chapter 30 · married with Princess Shtcherbatskaya “Fürst Shtcherbatsky, sammt Gemahlin und Tochter, by the apartments they took, and from their name and from the friends they made, were immediately crystallized into a definite place marked out for them.”
PART TWO · Chapter 30 · child: Kitty “Fürst Shtcherbatsky, sammt Gemahlin und Tochter, by the apartments they took, and from their name and from the friends they made, were immediately crystallized into a definite place marked out for them. There was visiting the watering-place that year a real German Fürstin, in consequence of which the crystallizing process went on more vigorously than ever. Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished, above everything, to present her daughter to this German princess, and the day after their arrival she duly performed this rite. Kitty made a low and graceful curtsey in the very simple, that is to say, very elegant frock that had been ordered her from Paris.”

Kitty’s cousin · first appears PART ONE · Chapter 9

PART ONE · Chapter 9 · cousins with Kitty “Nikolay Shtcherbatsky, Kitty’s cousin, in a short jacket and tight trousers, was sitting on a garden seat with his skates on.”

young man · first appears PART FOUR · Chapter 9

PART FOUR · Chapter 9 · with Karenin “Then he told Kitty she was looking very pretty that evening, and presented Shtcherbatsky to Karenin.”
PART FOUR · Chapter 9 · with Stepan Arkadyevitch “Then he told Kitty she was looking very pretty that evening, and presented Shtcherbatsky to Karenin.”

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