Anna Semionovna

Old Sergei

Anna Semionovna and Old Sergei share a close familial bond, likely as mother and son or close relatives, given their high interaction frequency.

Seryozha

Anna Semionovna and Seryozha have a strong family relationship, likely as mother and son or aunt and nephew.

Alexander Petrovitch Weber

Alexander Petrovitch Weber and Anna Semionovna are acquaintances or social contacts, with moderate interaction.

Mrs. Butters

Anna Semionovna and Mrs. Butters are friends or companions, sharing a supportive bond.

Tatiana Ostapenko

Anna Semionovna and Tatiana Ostapenko are likely mother and daughter or close female relatives.

Wilfred Chew

Anna Semionovna and Wilfred Chew are acquaintances or social contacts, with moderate interaction.

Old Sergei

Anna Semionovna and Old Sergei share a close familial bond, likely as mother and son or close relatives, given their high interaction frequency.

Seryozha

Anna Semionovna and Seryozha have a strong family relationship, likely as mother and son or aunt and nephew.

Alexander Petrovitch Weber

Alexander Petrovitch Weber and Anna Semionovna are acquaintances or social contacts, with moderate interaction.

Old Sergei

Anna Semionovna and Old Sergei share a close familial bond, likely as mother and son or close relatives, given their high interaction frequency.

Mrs. Butters

Anna Semionovna and Mrs. Butters are friends or companions, sharing a supportive bond.

Tatiana Ostapenko

Anna Semionovna and Tatiana Ostapenko are likely mother and daughter or close female relatives.

The Faraway Bride

Left behind in despair after Seryozha's departure, wanders and sews on the porch watching for his return.

I

Mentioned as the wife who makes Old Sergei's clothes, cuts his hair, and adapts his shoes; also appears in Seryozha's imagination of home.

III

Anna is distracted and irritated by her husband's talk, recalls a possible social misstep with Mrs. Butters over the kid goat, and physically confronts Seryozha when he refuses to feed the animal.

V

Conflicted and protective; initially opposes the journey, fears for Seryozha, but eventually consents, moved by his hope.

IX

Receives Seryozha's marriage letter and Alexander's suicide letter; grapples with grief, guilt, and denial; accuses Old Sergei of faking blindness.

XIV

Struggles with despair and resentment, sews on the porch watching for Seryozha, and calls Tatiana 'Death.'

Appendix Tobit 2

Tobit's wife, who supports him through his blindness and suffering.

I

Tobit's wife, of his own kindred, mother of Tobias.

II

Takes up women's work, receives a kid goat as a gift, and defends herself against Tobit's accusations of theft.

V

Weeps and protests against Tobias's departure, fearing for his safety.

Tobit's Anxiety and Tobias's Return

Anna bewails her son as dead, refuses comfort, and goes out daily to watch for him, fasting in her grief.

XI

Anna watches for her son's return, runs to embrace him, and declares she is content to die having seen him.

XIV

Anna, Tobit's wife, dies and is buried by Tobias alongside Tobit.