Yegorushka Korsunsky
Also known as: Korsunsky · Role: director of dances · First appears: PART ONE · Chapter 22
Life events
- Anna Arkadyevna deliberately ignores Vronsky and dances with Yegorushka Korsunsky.(PART ONE · Chapter 22)
PART ONE · Chapter 22
- married with Lidi “There—incredibly naked—was the beauty Lidi, Korsunsky’s wife;”
- with Countess Bonina (They had danced together.) “He had only just left the Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz,”
- with Kitty (They waltzed together.) “Bending her left hand, she laid it on his shoulder, and her little feet in their pink slippers began swiftly, lightly, and rhythmically moving over the slippery floor in time to the music.”
- with Anna (Korsunsky invited Anna to waltz.) “‘Why, have you met?’ inquired their host. ‘Is there anyone we have not met? My wife and I are like white wolves—everyone knows us,’ answered Korsunsky. ‘A waltz, Anna Arkadyevna?’”
- with Countess Bonina (Korsunsky danced the first half of a waltz with Countess Bonina.) “He had only just left the Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz,”
- with Kitty (Korsunsky selected Kitty as his waltz partner.) “He had only just left the Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz, and, scanning his kingdom—that is to say, a few couples who had started dancing—he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculiar, easy amble which is confined to directors of balls.”
- with Anna (Korsunsky invited Anna to dance and then waltzed with her.) “‘Why, have you met?’ inquired their host. ‘Is there anyone we have not met? My wife and I are like white wolves—everyone knows us,’ answered Korsunsky. ‘A waltz, Anna Arkadyevna?’”
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Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.