Petrov
Role: sick painter · First appears: PART TWO · Chapter 33
Life events
- Kitty begins serving sick people, especially Petrov’s family, as a sister of mercy.(PART TWO · Chapter 33 · 📍 the springs)
- Kitty associates with Petrov’s family and becomes proud of helping them.(PART TWO · Chapter 33 · 📍 the springs)
- With: Kitty
- “that she avoided society acquaintances and associated with the sick people who were under Varenka’s protection, and especially one poor family, that of a sick painter, Petrov. Kitty was unmistakably proud of playing the part of a sister of mercy in that family.”
- Anna Pavlovna becomes cool toward Kitty and watches her interactions with Petrov.(PART TWO · Chapter 33)
- With: Anna Pavlovna 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 33
- with Varenka (Varenka protects Petrov’s family.) “The princess saw that in the evenings Kitty read a French testament that Madame Stahl had given her—a thing she had never done before; that she avoided society acquaintances and associated with the sick people who were under Varenka’s protection, and especially one poor family, that of a sick painter, Petrov.”
- married with Anna Pavlovna (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 (Petrov shows apparent pleasure at Kitty’s approach.) “Could that touching pleasure he showed when she came near be the cause of Anna Pavlovna’s coolness?”
- with Kitty (interaction) “She saw that Kitty did not merely imitate Varenka in her conduct, but unconsciously imitated her in her manner of walking, of talking, of blinking her eyes. But later on the princess noticed that, apart from this adoration, some kind of serious spiritual change was taking place in her daughter.”
PART TWO · Chapter 34
- married with Anna Pavlovna “‘That’s Petrov, an artist,’ answered Kitty, blushing. ‘And that’s his wife,’ she added, indicating Anna Pavlovna”
- with Prince Alexander Shtcherbatsky (The prince introduces himself to Petrov.) “‘This is my daughter,’ said the prince. ‘Let me introduce myself.’”
- with Prince Alexander Shtcherbatsky (The prince and Petrov are introduced.) “Petrov got up, leaning on his stick, and looked shyly at the prince. ‘This is my daughter,’ said the prince. ‘Let me introduce myself.’”
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Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.