Natalya Ivanovna

Andrei's provincial fiancée and then wife, mocked for her taste at her first appearance; over the play's four years she steadily takes over the Prozorov household, has Andrei's sister Irina moved out of her own room for the nursery, dismisses the old nanny Anfisa, orders the fir avenue cut down, and conducts an open flirtation with Protopopov, the zemstvo chairman -- her rise tracking the sisters' displacement scene by scene.