Countess Nordston

Also known as: Masha · Role: countess · First appears: PART ONE · Chapter 14

Life events

Vronsky asked Anna Karenina for the mazurka before Kitty, thwarting Kitty’s expectation of dancing with him.(PART ONE · Chapter 23)
- With: Vronsky Anna Kitty
- “‘He asked her for the mazurka before me,’ said Countess Nordston, knowing Kitty would understand who were ‘he’ and ‘her.’”
Countess Nordston arranged for Kitty to dance the mazurka with Korsunsky.(PART ONE · Chapter 23)
- With: Korsunsky Kitty
- “Countess Nordston found Korsunsky, with whom she was to dance the mazurka, and told him to ask Kitty.”

friends with Kitty “Five minutes later there came in a friend of Kitty’s, married the preceding winter, Countess Nordston.”
enemies with Levin “The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even be offended by each other.”
with Vronsky (They arrange to attend a spiritualism demonstration together.) “‘Ah, countess, you really must take me, for pity’s sake do take me to see them! I have never seen anything extraordinary, though I am always on the lookout for it everywhere,’ said Vronsky, smiling. ‘Very well, next Saturday,’ answered Countess Nordston.”

with Korsunsky (Scheduled mazurka partners.) “Countess Nordston found Korsunsky, with whom she was to dance the mazurka, and told him to ask Kitty.”
with Kitty (Countess Nordston acts as Kitty's confidante and helper.) “‘Kitty, what is it?’ said Countess Nordston, stepping noiselessly over the carpet towards her. ‘I don’t understand it.’”

admired: Levin “Kitty was so angry and proved so conclusively that nothing in the world could be better than Levin, that Countess Nordston had to admit it, and in Kitty’s presence never met Levin without a smile of ecstatic admiration.”

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