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             ANDREY SERGEYEVITCH PROSOROV
             NATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancée, later his wife (28)
             His sisters:
             OLGA
             MASHA
             IRINA
             FEODOR ILITCH KULIGIN, high school teacher,
            married to MASHA (20)
             ALEXANDER IGNATEYEVITCH VERSHININ, lieutenant-colonel in             charge of a battery (42)
             NICOLAI LVOVITCH TUZENBACH, baron, lieutenant in the             army (30)
             VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain
             IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor (60)
             ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant
             VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant
             FERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man
             ANFISA, nurse (80)