Varvara Andreevna

Also known as: Varenka · Family: Levin household · Role: friend · First appears: PART SIX · Chapter 1

Life events

Sergey Ivanovitch’s intended marriage proposal is not spoken, ending their moment of romantic possibility.(PART SIX · Chapter 5 · 📍 wood)
- With: Sergey Ivanovitch
- “And as soon as these words were uttered, both he and she felt that it was over, that what was to have been said would not be said;”

friends with Kitty “Moreover, Varenka, Kitty’s friend abroad, kept her promise to come to Kitty when she was married, and stayed with her friend.”
courtship with Sergey Ivanovitch “‘Take me with you. I am very fond of picking mushrooms,’ he said, looking at Varenka; ‘I think it’s a very nice occupation.’ ‘Oh, we shall be delighted,’ answered Varenka, coloring a little. Kitty exchanged meaningful glances with Dolly. The proposal of the learned and intellectual Sergey Ivanovitch to go looking for mushrooms with Varenka confirmed certain theories of Kitty’s with which her mind had been very busy of late.”

admirer: Sergey Ivanovitch (He is saying the proposal to himself, and does not actually speak it to her.) “I love you, and offer you my hand.”
employer: Madame Stahl “To be the wife of a man like Koznishev, after her position with Madame Stahl, was to her imagination the height of happiness.”
with Masha (interaction) “That one too, near the twig,” she pointed out to little Masha a little fungus”
with Grisha (interaction) “Kneeling down, with her hands over the mushrooms to guard them from Grisha”
courtship with Sergey Ivanovitch (He intended to offer her marriage, but the proposal was never spoken.) “Sergey Ivanovitch was saying this to himself while he was ten paces from Varvara. Kneeling down, with her hands over the mushrooms to guard them from Grisha, she was calling little Masha.”
with Madame Stahl (The chapter refers to Varvara Andreevna's position with Madame Stahl without specifying a controlled relationship type.) “To be the wife of a man like Koznishev, after her position with Madame Stahl, was to her imagination the height of happiness.”

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