# Three Sisters — Character guide

> Key figures in Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

- [Olga Sergeyevna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/olga_sergeyevna.md): The eldest sister and a high-school teacher who feels her youth being squeezed out drop by drop, she keeps the household standing while quietly aching for Moscow.
- [Masha Sergeyevna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/masha_sergeyevna.md): The middle sister, married and restless, who whistles over her book and lets her discontent sharpen into the kind of honesty that unsettles everyone around her.
- [Irina Sergeyevna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/irina_sergeyevna.md): The youngest sister, radiant on her name day, who believes work will give her life meaning and longs to escape to Moscow before that faith is tested.
- [Andrey Sergeyevitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/andrey_sergeyevitch.md): The only brother, once expected to become a professor, whose ambitions quietly deflate as marriage and the provinces close in around him.
- [Alexander Ignateyevitch Vershinin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/alexander_ignateyevitch_vershinin.md): A lieutenant colonel newly posted to the town, talkative and philosophical, who arrives at the house declaring himself glad and never quite stops explaining why.
- [Baron Tuzenbach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/baron_tuzenbach.md): Tuzenbach moves through the sisters' drawing room as an earnest suitor to Irina and a self-appointed prophet of labour, confessing that his family shielded him from work 'only just in time.' His longing to be useful coll
- [Ivan Romanovitch Chebutikin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/ivan_romanovitch_chebutikin.md): Chebutikin drifts through the household as its resident physician and unofficial uncle, dispensing absurd remedies and half-finished thoughts while carrying a private guilt over a patient's death. His affection for the P
- [Soleni](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/soleni.md): Soleni enters from the dining room with Chebutikin, announcing his lifting strength as if it were philosophy, and settles into the household as a volatile, self-dramatising presence. His quarrelsome vanity and theatrical
- [Feodor Ilitch Kuligin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/feodor_ilitch_kuligin.md): Kuligin belongs to the household as Masha's husband and the local schoolmaster, a man who likes to hear himself speak and takes quiet satisfaction in his wife and his work. His good nature is real but unperceptive: he ca
- [Ferapont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/ferapont.md): An old servant from the country council who brings news and documents.

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