Study Guide

Uncle Vanya Characters

By Anton Chekhov

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Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, (Uncle Vanya)

Poor Uncle Vanya. He's got it rough. But what's not so rough for us is that if we can understand...

Yelena Andreyevna, (Hélène, Lenochka)

A lot of what we know about Yelena Andreyevna, the wife of Serebryakov, we learn from what other...

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov

If we had to make a puppet of Professor Serebryakov, he'd probably end up looking like this. In a...

Mikhail Lvovich Astrov

What's up, Doc? That's the question on everybody's mind in this tempest in a teacup. He doesn't...

Sofya Aleksandrovna, a.k.a. Sonya, a.k.a. Sophie

It's tough to be Sonya. Like Yelena, she's a woman (well, obviously). Now, in the world of Uncle...

Marina Timofeyevna

There's not all that much to say about Marina. She's almost always in the background, never...

Mariya Vasilyevna Voynitskaya

If you've heard one mother-in-law joke, you've heard them all, but Mariya is the exception to the...

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