Anna Karenina Page #2

MATVEY:

In your hat. Your Excellency.

Oblonsky thinks about it, lets the barber finish. He stands and removes his

dressing gown.

OBLONSKY:

Yes . . . I picked it up somewhere for Daria

Alexandrovna and the children.

Matvey is ready with Oblonsky's shirt, which he puts over his master's head

like a horse's collar.

INT. "DAY NURSERY," OBLONSKY HOUSE, SAME

TIME--DAY

There is a sloping lineup of five children, aged eight, five, four, three and

two, dressed and brushed for presentation to their mother, Princess Daria

Oblonsky, known as Dolly . . . who we now see is heavily pregnant. Stand-

ing by is a French governess, Mlle. Roland, and a Nurse. Mlle. Roland

is buxom.

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Dolly picks up the youngest, Vasya, to kiss him and hands him to the

Nurse, and kisses the others in ascending order.

DOLLY:

Bonjour, Lili; bonjour, Masha; bonjour,

Grisha; bonjour, Tanya.

Who's coming to see Grandmama?

INT. OBLONSKY'S DRESSING ROOM, SAME TIME--

DAY:

Oblonsky, dressed now and holding a cup of coffee, checks from the window.

OBLONSKY'S POV--

Dolly, in furs, the four youngest children and the Nurse, who carries Vasya,

all wrapped up against the cold weather, have come out of the house to a

waiting sleigh, as noisy as starlings, bickering, competing, reprimanding.

The Oblonsky's Coachman assists, with a rug to spread across knees.

Oblonsky hands his coffee to Matvey and lights a small cigar. He detours

to take a sugared almond from a dish of sweets, and leaves the room . . .

INT. SCHOOLROOM, OBLONSKY HOUSE, SAME

TIME--DAY

Tanya is at her lessons with Mlle. Roland. When Oblonsky's face appears

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