Anna Pavlovna
Also known as: Madame Petrova · Family: Petrov circle · Role: Petrov’s wife · First appears: PART TWO · Chapter 33
Life events
- Anna Pavlovna changes her mind and cancels the planned mountain expedition.(PART TWO · Chapter 33)
- “That day Varenka came to dinner and told them that Anna Pavlovna had changed her mind and given up the expedition for the morrow.”
- Anna Pavlovna becomes cool toward Kitty and watches her interactions with Petrov.(PART TWO · Chapter 33)
- Mihail Alexeyevitch delays leaving because Anna Pavlovna blames Kitty for his reluctance.(PART TWO · Chapter 35)
- With: Mihail Alexeyevitch Kitty
- “only that Mihail Alexeyevitch (that was the artist’s name) had meant to leave earlier, and now he doesn’t want to go away,” said Varenka, smiling. “Well, well!” Kitty urged impatiently, looking darkly at Varenka. “Well, and for some reason Anna Pavlovna told him that he didn’t want to go because you are here.”
PART TWO · Chapter 33
- married with Petrov (Anna Pavlovna is identified as Madame Petrova, while Petrov is described as her husband.) “Again and again she went over in her memory all her relations with the family. She remembered the simple delight expressed on the round, good-humored face of Anna Pavlovna at their meetings; she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid, their plots to draw him away from the work which was forbidden him, and to get him out-of-doors; the devotion of the youngest boy, who used to call her ‘my Kitty,’ and would not go to bed without her. How nice it all was! Then she recalled the thin, terribly thin figure of Petrov, with his long neck, in his brown coat, his scant, curly hair, his questioning blue eyes that were so terrible to Kitty at first, and his painful attempts to seem hearty and lively in her presence. She recalled the efforts she had made at first to overcome the repugnance she felt for him, as for all consumptive people, and the pains it had cost her to think of things to say to him. She recalled the timid, softened look with which he gazed at her, and the strange feeling of compassion and awkwardness, and later of a sense of her own goodness, which she had felt at it. How nice it all was! But all that was at first. Now, a few days ago, everything was suddenly spoiled. Anna Pavlovna had met Kitty with affected cordiality, and had kept continual watch on her and on her husband.”
- with Kitty (Anna Pavlovna becomes cool and watchful toward Kitty.) “Now, a few days ago, everything was suddenly spoiled. Anna Pavlovna had met Kitty with affected cordiality, and had kept continual watch on her and on her husband.”
PART TWO · Chapter 34
- married with Petrov “‘That’s Petrov, an artist,’ answered Kitty, blushing. ‘And that’s his wife,’ she added, indicating Anna Pavlovna”
- with Prince Alexander Shtcherbatsky (interaction) “‘Good morning, princess,’ said Anna Pavlovna, with an assumed smile utterly unlike her former manner. ‘Very glad to make your acquaintance,’ she said to the prince.”
PART TWO · Chapter 35
- with Mihail Alexeyevitch (Anna Pavlovna tells Mihail Alexeyevitch why she thinks he is staying.) “Well, and for some reason Anna Pavlovna told him that he didn’t want to go because you are here.”
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