Varya

Family: Vronsky · Role: Vronsky’s sister-in-law · First appears: PART THREE · Chapter 21

Life events

Varya arrives with doctors, puts the wounded Vronsky to bed, and remains to nurse him.(PART FOUR · Chapter 18)
- With: Vronsky
- “An hour later Varya, his brother’s wife, had arrived, and with the assistance of three doctors, whom she had sent for in all directions, and who all appeared at the same moment, she got the wounded man to bed, and remained to nurse him.”
Varya refused to invite Anna Karenina into her house because of social consequences.(PART FIVE · Chapter 28 · 📍 Petersburg)
- With: Vronsky Anna
- “You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so.”

friends with Anna “‘She’s friendly with Varya, and they’re the only women in Petersburg I care about seeing,’ answered Vronsky, smiling.”

with Vronsky (Varya is Vronsky’s sister-in-law.) “he saw with wonder an embroidered cushion beside him, worked by Varya, his brother’s wife”

with Vronsky (sister-in-law) “But he had more hope of Varya, his brother’s wife.”
friends with Vronsky “I’m sorry, too, that this means breaking up our friendship—if not breaking up, at least weakening it.”

with Vronsky (They are brother-in-law and sister-in-law.) “Leaving the Princess Sorokina with her mother, Varya held out her hand to her brother-in-law, and began immediately to speak of what interested him.”

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