# The Cherry Orchard — Character guide

> Key figures in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.

- [Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/lyubov_andreyevna_ranevskaya.md): The estate owner returning from Paris, struggling with debt and loss of her cherry orchard.
- [Anya](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/anya.md): Lyubov's young daughter, hopeful and idealistic about the future.
- [Varya](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/varya.md): Lyubov's adopted daughter, practical and managing the household.
- [Yermolay Lopahin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/lopahin.md): A wealthy merchant of peasant origin who buys the cherry orchard.
- [Petya Trofimov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/trofimov.md): A perpetual student and idealist who inspires Anya with visions of a new world.
- [Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/gaev.md): Lyubov's brother, a talkative and sentimental aristocrat attached to the orchard.
- [Firs](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/firs.md): Aged servant who remembers the serf era and is devoted to the family.
- [Charlotta Ivanovna](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/charlotta_ivanovna.md): The eccentric German governess who performs tricks and ventriloquism.
- [Epihodov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/epihodov.md): A clumsy clerk who fancies himself a tragic figure and proposes to Dunyasha.
- [Dunyasha](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/dunyasha.md): A maid who dreams of romance and is courted by Epihodov and Yasha.
- [Yasha](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/yasha.md): A young footman who has been to Paris and is dismissive of rural life.
- [Semyonov-Pishtchik](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/semyonov_pishtchik.md): A landowner constantly borrowing money and obsessed with his health.
- [Deriganov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/deriganov.md): A wealthy landowner mentioned as a potential buyer of the orchard.
- [Dashenka](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/dashenka.md): Pishtchik's daughter, briefly mentioned as sending a telegram.
- [Anitchka](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/anitchka.md): A deceased child mentioned in passing by the family.
- [Pyotr Sergeyevitch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_cherry_orchard_se/characters/pyotr_sergeyevitch.md): A character mentioned by Dunyasha as a former suitor.

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