Anya

The story's eighteen-year-old heroine, married off for money to the fifty-two-year-old official Modest Alexeich to rescue her impoverished, widowed father and two younger brothers. After discovering at a winter ball that her beauty gives her social power her husband's rank-consciousness cannot touch, she throws herself into a glittering life of admirers and spending, growing steadily more indifferent to the family she originally married to save -- the title's second, human 'Anna' hung, like the medal, around a man's neck.