# On the Eve — Character guide

> Key figures in On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev.

- [Elena Nikolaevna Stahova](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/elena_nikolaevna.md): The novel's central heroine, a passionate and idealistic young woman seeking purpose.
- [Dmitri Nikanorovitch Insarov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/dmitri_insarov.md): A Bulgarian revolutionary dedicated to liberating his homeland from Turkish rule.
- [Andrei Petrovitch Bersenyev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/andrei_bersenyev.md): A scholarly young man and friend of Shubin, in love with Elena.
- [Pavel Yakovlitch Shubin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/pavel_shubin.md): A talented sculptor and Elena's cousin, witty and artistic.
- [Nikolai Artemyevitch Stahov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/nikolai_stahov.md): Elena's father, a retired civil servant with a mistress.
- [Anna Vassilyevna Stahova](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/anna_vassilyevna.md): Elena's nervous and hypochondriac mother.
- [Uvar Ivanovitch Stahov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/uvar_ivanovitch.md): A retired cavalry officer and relative of the Stahovs, often silent.
- [Zoya Nikitishna Mueller](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/zoya.md): A pretty but shallow German companion to Anna Vassilyevna.
- [Renditch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/renditch.md): A mysterious figure who assists Insarov with his revolutionary plans.
- [Yegor Andreyevitch Kurnatovsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/kurnatovsky.md): A government official and suitor to Elena, proposed by her father.
- [Katya](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/katya.md): A young servant girl in the Stahov household.
- [Prince Ardalion Tchikurasov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/on_the_eve_se/characters/prince_tchikurasov.md): A minor nobleman who appears at a social gathering.

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