Princess Shtcherbatskaya

Family: Shtcherbatsky · Role: mother · First appears: PART ONE · Chapter 9

Life events

Kitty disclosed Vronsky’s conversation about awaiting his mother before undertaking anything important.(PART ONE · Chapter 12)
- With: Kitty Vronsky
- “The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka.”
Princess Shtcherbatskaya realized that Kitty was in love with Count Vronsky.(PART ONE · Chapter 12)
- With: Kitty Vronsky
- “She saw that her daughter was in love with him”
Princess Shtcherbatskaya presented Kitty to the German princess.(PART TWO · Chapter 30)
- With: Kitty
- “Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished, above everything, to present her daughter to this German princess, and the day after their arrival she duly performed this rite.”
Fürst Shtcherbatsky went away to Carlsbad, leaving Kitty alone with her mother.(PART TWO · Chapter 30 · 📍 Carlsbad)
- With: Fürst Shtcherbatsky Kitty
- “When all this was so firmly established, Kitty began to be very much bored, especially as the prince went away to Carlsbad and she was left alone with her mother.”
Princess Shtcherbatskaya consented to hold Levin and Kitty’s wedding before Lent.(PART FIVE · Chapter 1)
- With: Levin Kitty
- “And therefore, deciding to divide the trousseau into two parts—a larger and smaller trousseau—the princess consented to have the wedding before Lent.”

child: Kitty “Catching sight of Kitty going away, and her mother meeting her at the steps, Levin, flushed from his rapid exercise, stood still and pondered a minute. He took off his skates, and overtook the mother and daughter at the entrance of the gardens. ‘Delighted to see you,’ said Princess Shtcherbatskaya.”
with Stepan Arkadyevitch (Stepan Arkadyevitch is Princess Shtcherbatskaya’s son-in-law.) “At that moment Stepan Arkadyevitch, his hat cocked on one side, with beaming face and eyes, strode into the garden like a conquering hero. But as he approached his mother-in-law, he responded in a mournful and crestfallen tone to her inquiries about Dolly’s health.”
with Stepan Arkadyevitch (Princess Shtcherbatskaya is Stepan Arkadyevitch’s mother-in-law.) “‘We shall be pleased to see you,’ the princess said stiffly. This stiffness hurt Kitty, and she could not resist the desire to smooth over her mother’s coldness. She turned her head, and with a smile said: ‘Good-bye till this evening.’ At that moment Stepan Arkadyevitch, his hat cocked on one side, with beaming face and eyes, strode into the garden like a conquering hero. But as he approached his mother-in-law, he responded in a mournful and crestfallen tone to her inquiries about Dolly’s health.”

child: Darya “the disputes with her husband over marrying the two elder girls, Darya and Natalia!”
child: Natalia “the disputes with her husband over marrying the two elder girls, Darya and Natalia!”

married with Fürst Shtcherbatsky “Fürst Shtcherbatsky, sammt Gemahlin und Tochter, by the apartments they took, and from their name and from the friends they made, were immediately crystallized into a definite place marked out for them.”

with Levin (The princess advises Levin about his post-wedding arrangements.) “His brother raised money for him, the princess advised him to leave Moscow after the wedding.”

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