Princess Betsy Tverskaya Abigail Cruttenden Princess Betsy Tverskaya is a shallow society gossip who carries on adulterous affairs in secret while publicly shunning Anna for her open relationship with Vronsky. She is described in Anna Karenina as Anna's "cousin's wife," and in the Masterpiece Theatre film as Vronsky's cousin. Abigail Cruttenden is a British television and film actress whose credits include Hideous Kinky (1998), several episodes of Sharpe, and the ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.