Dramatis Personae

• Andrey Sergeyevitch Prosorov

• Natalia Ivanova (Natasha), his fiancée, later his wife (28)

• Olga (28),
  Masha (23),
  Irina (20), his sisters

• Feodor Ilitch Kuligin, high school teacher, married to Masha

• 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, sublieutenant

• Vladimir Carlovitch Rode, sublieutenant

• Ferapont, doorkeeper at local council offices, an old man

• Anfisa, nurse (80)

The action takes place in a provincial town.

(Ages are stated in parentheses.)