Characters

Name: Uncle Vanya - Characters
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor

HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old

SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage

MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff’s first wife

IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son

MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor

ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner

MARINA, an old nurse

A WORKMAN

The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF’S country place

UNCLE VANYA

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Chicago: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Characters," Uncle Vanya, trans. Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 in Uncle Vanya (London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1831), Original Sources, accessed April 7, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XW5WYXZ9GKTW2MI.

MLA: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. "Characters." Uncle Vanya, translted by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859, in Uncle Vanya, London, Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1831, Original Sources. 7 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XW5WYXZ9GKTW2MI.

Harvard: Chekhov, AP, 'Characters' in Uncle Vanya, trans. . cited in 1831, Uncle Vanya, Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, London. Original Sources, retrieved 7 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=XW5WYXZ9GKTW2MI.