# Mihail Vassilievitch Sludin — Anna Karenina character guide

> Mihail Vassilievitch Sludin in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Sludin, Mihail Vassilievitch

**First appearance:** 0169-part-vi-xiii

## Who they are

A conservative landowner and candidate during the provincial elections Levin attends.

## In the story

### [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_karenina_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi)

Secretary of Karenin's department and an old university friend of the doctor. He discusses Karenin's health with the doctor after the examination.

### [An Unwelcome Visit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_karenina_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii)

Accompanies Karenin. Anna senses his inquisitive look, as if he is 'keeping watch on her,' which increases her self-consciousness about her performance.

### [Chapter XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_karenina_se/chapters/part-iii-xxvii)

The gray-whiskered landowner who argues passionately that the Russian peasant is inherently unruly and that progress requires authority, lamenting the ruin caused by emancipation.

### [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_karenina_se/chapters/part-v-xxi)

Karenin's chief secretary; though well-disposed, their relationship is strictly official. Karenin cannot bring himself to speak of his personal trouble to him.

### [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_karenina_se/chapters/part-viii-xv)

The old beekeeper (Mihalitch); when asked about the war, he defers completely to the Tsar's authority, embodying the peasant perspective that Levin references.

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