CHARACTERS
     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)
The action takes place in a provincial town.

[Ages are stated in brackets.]