The handsome, charming lover of Anna, and an officer in a regiment of soldiers. Vronsky has never had much in the way of family life. His father was a nonentity Vronsky barely remembers, and his mother appears to have slept around a lot. Eventually, Vronsky was sent to a boarding school, where he learned great manners but not much about morality. Vronsky emerges from his childhood without any intention of getting married and starting a family. He doesn't see the value of marriage when he can sleep with any woman wants, and he also thinks husbands are ridiculous, pointless figures to be laughed at while you seduce their wives.