Uncle Vanya - Characters

Characters

• Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov (Александр Владимирович Серебряков) - a retired university professor, who has lived for years in the city on the earnings of his late first wife's rural estate, managed for him by Vanya and Sonya.
• Helena Andreyevna Serebryakova (Елена Андреевна Серебрякова) - Professor Serebryakov's young and beautiful second wife. She is 27 years old.
• Sofia Alexandrovna Serebryakova (Sonya) (Софья Александровна Серебрякова) - Professor Serebryakov's daughter from his first marriage. She is of a marriageable age but is considered plain.
• Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskaya (Мария Васильевна Войницкая) - the widow of a privy councilor and mother of Vanya (and of Vanya's late sister, the Professor's first wife).
• Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky ("Uncle Vanya") (Иван Петрович Войницкий)- Maria's son and Sonya's uncle, the title character of the play. He is 47 years old.
• Mikhail Lvovich Astrov (Михаил Львович Астров) - a middle aged country doctor.
• Ilya Ilych Telegin (nicknamed "Waffles" for his pockmarked skin) (Илья Ильич Телегин) - an impoverished landowner, who now lives on the estate as a dependent of the family.
• Marina Timofeevna (Марина Тимофеевна) - an old nurse.
• A Workman