ALEXÁNDER VLADÍMIROVICH SEREBRYAKÓV (ALEXANDRE), a retired professor
ELÉNA ANDRÉEVNA (LÉNOCHKA, HÉLÈNE), his second wife, twenty-seven years old
SÓFYA ALEXÁNDROVNA (SÓNYA, SÓNECHKA, SÓNYUSHKA, SOPHIE), his daughter from his first marriage
MÁRYA VASSÍLYEVNA VOÍNITSKAYA, widow of a privy councillor, mother of the professor’s first wife
IVÁN PETRÓVICH VOINÍTSKY (VANYA, JEAN), her son
MIKHAÍL LVÓVICH ÁSTROV, a doctor
ILYÁ ILYÍCH TELÉGIN (WAFFLE), an impoverished landowner
MARÍNA TIMOFÉEVNA, an elderly nanny
WORKMAN
The action takes place on Serebryakov’s estate.