Pestsov

Family: Moscow intellectuals · Role: intellectual · First appears: PART FOUR · Chapter 6

PART FOUR · Chapter 6

• with Karenin (Pestsov is invited to the dinner arranged for Alexey Alexandrovitch.) “I tell you what we’ll do tomorrow. Dolly, ask him to dinner. We’ll ask Koznishev and Pestsov, so as to entertain him with our Moscow celebrities.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 7

• with Stepan Arkadyevitch (Pestsov is invited to Stepan Arkadyevitch’s dinner.) “He was asking, too, the well-known eccentric enthusiast, Pestsov, a liberal, a great talker, a musician, an historian, and the most delightfully youthful person of fifty, who would be a sauce or garnish for Koznishev and Karenin.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 9

• with Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev (interaction) “They respected each other, but were in complete and hopeless disagreement upon almost every subject, not because they belonged to opposite parties, but precisely because they were of the same party (their enemies refused to see any distinction between their views); but, in that party, each had his own special shade of opinion.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 10

• with Sergey Ivanovitch (They are engaged in an intellectual debate.) “Sergey Ivanovitch waited serenely to speak, obviously with a convincing reply ready.”
• with Karenin (They debate the relative development and civilization of nations.) “‘But that’s just the question,’ Pestsov broke in in his bass.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 13

• with Levin (They disagree in a discussion about the village commune.) “The conversation fell on the village commune, in which Pestsov saw a sort of special principle, called by him the ‘choral’ principle. Levin did not agree with Pestsov”

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