Uncle Vanya Study Guide

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya is the story of a wealthy professor who has remarried to a young and beautiful woman and returns to his country estate with the aim of selling it. Several people connected to his first wife, though, depend on the estate for their livings and for their senses of purpose. Among these people are the professor's daughter from a previous marriage and his first wife's brother, the title character Vanya.

Uncle Vanya Characters

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  • Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov (Александр Владимирович Серебряков) – a retired university professor, who has lived for years in the city on the earnings of his late first wife's rural estate, managed for him by Vanya and Sonya.
  • Helena Andreyevna Serebryakov (Yelena) (Елена Андреевна Серебрякова) – Professor Serebryakov's young and beautiful second wife. She is 27 years old.
  • Sofia Alexandrovna Serebryakov (Sonya) (Софья Александровна Серебрякова) – Professor Serebryakov's daughter from his first marriage. She is of a marriageable age but is considered plain.
  • Maria Vasilyevna Voynitsky (Мария Васильевна Войницкая) – the widow of a privy councilor and mother of Vanya (and of Vanya's late sister, the Professor's first wife).
  • Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky ("Uncle Vanya") (Иван Петрович Войницкий) – Maria's son and Sonya's uncle, the title character of the play. He is 47 years old.
  • Mikhail Lvovich Astrov (Михаил Львович Астров) – a middle aged country doctor.
  • Ilya Ilych Telegin (Илья Ильич Телегин; nicknamed "Waffles" for his pockmarked skin)– an impoverished landowner, who now lives on the estate as a dependent of the family.
  • Marina Timofeevna (Марина Тимофеевна) – an old nurse.
  • A Workman

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