Countess Vronskaya

Also known as: the countess / the old countess · Family: Vronsky · Role: Vronsky's mother · First appears: PART ONE · Chapter 17

Life events

Countess Vronskaya changed her opinion after learning of Vronsky’s desperate passion and career sacrifice.(PART TWO · Chapter 18)
- With: Vronsky
- “She learned that great personages were displeased with him on this account, and she changed her opinion.”
Countess Vronskaya sent her elder son to summon Vronsky after learning about his connection.(PART TWO · Chapter 18)
- With: Vronsky
- “She had not seen him since his abrupt departure from Moscow, and she sent her elder son to bid him come to see her.”

child: Vronsky “Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother”

friends with Anna “I could go all around the world with you and never be dull. You are one of those delightful women in whose company it’s sweet to be silent as well as to talk.”
child: Alexander “Everything has been delightful. Alexander has been very good, and Marie has grown very pretty.”
child: Marie “Everything has been delightful. Alexander has been very good, and Marie has grown very pretty.”
servant: Lavrenty “Here’s Lavrenty,” said Vronsky, looking out of the window; “now we can go, if you like.” The old butler, who had traveled with the countess, came to the carriage to announce that everything was ready, and the countess got up to go.”

child: Vronsky (The passage identifies Countess Vronskaya as Vronsky’s mother.) “Vronsky’s mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,—at least according to the Countess Vronskaya’s ideas.”

with Princess Sorokina (Princess Sorokina was staying with Countess Vronskaya.) “It was now not the Queen of Sweden’s swimming-mistress who filled Anna’s imagination, but the young Princess Sorokina. She was staying in a village near Moscow with Countess Vronskaya.”
with Princess Sorokina (Princess Sorokina was staying with Countess Vronskaya.) “She was staying in a village near Moscow with Countess Vronskaya.”

with Anna (Anna sends a note to Countess Vronskaya’s residence.) “‘Go with this note to Countess Vronskaya’s place, you know? and bring an answer back immediately,’ she said to the messenger.”

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