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Countess Lidia Ivanovna is a Petersburg aristocrat and member of several important circles in the society of that city. She is depicted as very religious, shallow, romantic, impractical and generally tiresome.

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Interestingly, she is also overtly shown to be bisexual:. She was in love with several people at once, both men and women…She was in love with all the new princes and princesses who married into the imperial family…". A highly religious woman in a conservative society in the midth century, no less!

There are, however, curiously enough, little references that Karenin might be attracted to men as well. During a ceremony when he is presented with a medal to honor his public service, Karenin finds himself, uncontrollably it seems, noticing the bodies of the men around him:.

Karenin is a very straight-laced person who tries to exercise control over himself and his thoughts at all time, which means he often struggles with repression when his unconsciousness succeeds at times in bubbling up thoughts and emotions despite his best efforts to deny them.

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