Gorgeous list! I would add
Adela
Blanche
Eleonora
Evgenia
Feodora
Helena / Helene
Heloise
Irina
Ludmila
Margareta / Margarita
Mathilde
Nadia
Nicolette
Vasilisa
Veronique
Victorine
Maybe…
[name_f]Antonina[/name_f] (Anna Karenina smoosh)
[name_f]Arcadia[/name_f] (ref to Anna’s patronymic Arkadyevna)
[name_f]Demetria[/name_f] (ref to Levin’s patronymic Dmitrich)
[name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f] (Betsy)
[name_f]Leonora[/name_f] (Leo Tolstoy)
[name_f]Ottoline[/name_f] or [name_f]Ottilia[/name_f] (Oblonsky)
[name_f]Severine[/name_f] (similar to Sergei/Serezha)
[name_f]Theodora[/name_f] or [name_f]Dorothea[/name_f] (Dolly)
[name_f]Varvara[/name_f] (wife of Vronsky + Varenka)
[name_f]Veronika[/name_f] (Vronsky)
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[name_f]Aurembiaix[/name_f]
[name_f]Eugenie[/name_f]
[name_f]Ludmila[/name_f]
[name_f]Ludivine[/name_f]
[name_u]Antonia[/name_u]
[name_f]Georgina[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Irena[/name_f]
[name_f]Elmira[/name_f]
[name_f]Danica[/name_f]
[name_f]Zuzana[/name_f]
I honestly have considered Karenina as a middle. It has such a pretty sound, and would be a perfect way to honor my mom (who is Karen), but since I haven’t actually finished the novel I figure I shouldn’t actually go there until I have. I think something like [name_f]Eve[/name_f] Karenina or [name_f]Thea[/name_f] Karenina would be really pretty.
I think some of the variations of the three sisters would be really nice, too - [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] nn [name_u]Kitty[/name_u] (Katherine feels much more accessible than Ekaterina?), Daria/Dolly/Darya in some form, Natalia/Natasha/Natalie. [name_f]Natalie[/name_f] is quite popular but the whole family of names is gorgeous, anyway. Lydia/Lidia is great, too. Maybe something like [name_f]Varvara[/name_f], Marya/Masha, [name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f], Agafya/Agatha/Agnieszka, etc.? Although I didn’t get far enough to really know them as characters, so I couldn’t speak to how well the name sakes are lol.
Not sure that they have the same feeling but I adore [name_f]Vera[/name_f], [name_f]Ksenia[/name_f], [name_f]Anastasia[/name_f], Evgeniya, [name_f]Evelina[/name_f], [name_f]Klementina[/name_f], Nadia/Nadezhda, [name_f]Oksana[/name_f], [name_f]Zoya[/name_f]. [name_u]Or[/name_u] maybe Stefaniya as a feminization of Stiva? [name_u]Or[/name_u] even Anya/Anja which is so lovely.