Characters

Name: Ivanoff - Characters
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs

ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson

MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff

PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo

ZINAIDA, his wife

SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old

LVOFF, a young government doctor

MARTHA BABAKINA, a young widow, owner of an estate and daughter of a rich merchant

KOSICH, an exciseman

MICHAEL BORKIN, a distant relative of Ivanoff, and manager of his estate

AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, an old woman

GEORGE, lives with the Lebedieffs

FIRST GUEST

SECOND GUEST

THIRD GUEST

FOURTH GUEST

PETER, a servant of Ivanoff

GABRIEL, a servant of Lebedieff

GUESTS OF BOTH SEXES

The play takes place in one of the provinces of central Russia

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Chicago: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Characters," Ivanoff, ed. Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896 and trans. J. Walker McSpedden in Ivanoff Original Sources, accessed November 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AYSYKFG4ZSLPNPR.

MLA: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. "Characters." Ivanoff, edited by Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, and translated by J. Walker McSpedden, in Ivanoff, Original Sources. 3 Nov. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AYSYKFG4ZSLPNPR.

Harvard: Chekhov, AP, 'Characters' in Ivanoff, ed. and trans. . cited in , Ivanoff. Original Sources, retrieved 3 November 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AYSYKFG4ZSLPNPR.