Anna Karenina is the best novel about a woman written in the 19th century. The idea of "a novel from modern life" originated with L. N. Tolstoy back in 1870. “Last night he told me,” Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya noted in her diary on February 24, 1870, “that he imagined a type of woman, married, from high society, but who had lost herself.” The first chapters of "Anna Karenina" saw the light in 1875 in the journal "Russian Messenger": Tolstoy decided to present them to the public before the end of the manuscript as a whole. The publication of the novel lasted three years. The success exceeded all expectations. As one of Tolstoy's contemporaries wrote, "every chapter of Anna Karenina raised the whole society on its hind legs, and there was no end to rumors, delights, and gossip, and disputes, as if it were a question that was personally close to everyone." According to F. M. Dostoevsky, "Anna Karenina" amazed readers "not only by the daily content, but also by the enormous psychological development of the human soul, with terrible depth and strength."
The novel is published accompanied by illustrations by the outstanding Russian artist of the 20th century Alexander Samokhvalov; The publication includes an article by St Petersburg University Professor Andrey Stepanov.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Illustrations: Alexander Samokhvalov
Pages: 832 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 140x210 mm
