# Marya Vassilyevna Voynitsky — Uncle Vanya character guide

> Marya Vassilyevna Voynitsky in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Marya Vassilyevna, Marya, Voynitsky

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

Vanya's elderly mother, who reads her son-in-law the professor's pamphlets aloud and defends him against her own son's contempt.

## Who they are

Marya Vassilyevna is Vanya's mother, devoted to her son-in-law the professor and eager to discuss his latest pamphlet even as Vanya sneers at it. When she notes that the professor is attacking what he himself maintained seven years ago, Vanya calls it nothing awful and tells her to drink her tea, but she insists on talking. Her loyalty to the professor sharpens the irony of Vanya's sacrificed life. She embodies the household's habit of venerating the wrong man.

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