Ivan

Also known as: Ivan the coachman · Role: laborer · First appears: PART THREE · Chapter 24

Life events

• Ivan becomes a partner in the cattle-yard with workers drawn mainly from his family.(PART THREE · Chapter 29)
  • With: Levin
  • “The simple-hearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in the cattle-yard.”

PART THREE · Chapter 24

• employer: Levin (Ivan is a laborer working under Levin's orders.) “The horses were allowed to stray into the wheat because not a single laborer would consent to be night-watchman, and in spite of orders to the contrary, the laborers insisted on taking turns for night duty, and Ivan, after working all day long, fell asleep, and was very penitent for his fault, saying, ‘Do what you will to me, your honor.’”

PART THREE · Chapter 29

• with Levin (Business partners in the cattle-yard.) “The simple-hearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in the cattle-yard.”

PART EIGHT · Chapter 19

• with Levin (Levin says he loses his temper with Ivan the coachman.) “I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;”

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