Anna Karenina · Character
Vassily Lukitch
Seryozha Karenin's French tutor.
minor
First appearance: part i xiii
Vassily Lukitch shows up with force in Seryozha's Birthday Eve. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Seryozha's tutor, conscientious but unable to engage the boy's imagination.
Vassily Lukitch first appears in 0012 part i xiii.
In Seryozha's Birthday Eve: Seryozha's tutor, conscientious but unable to engage the boy's imagination. He is focused on the grammar lesson and gives perfunctory answers to Seryozha's questions about imperial orders.
Later, in Seryozha's Lesson: Seryozha's tutor. He announces Karenin's arrival and later, after Seryozha is punished, cheerfully shows him how to make windmills, providing the warmth and engagement the boy craves.
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Character groups
- Karenin Household & Associates
- Levin's Social & Family Circle
- Wider Society & Minor Characters
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Levin reaches an emotional and intellectual crisis where his abstract, fearful understanding of death is shatt…
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See Vassily Lukitch in part i xiii