Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is the wife of a well-respected government official. When she travels to St. Petersburg to reconcile her brother and his wife, she meets Count Vronsky and the course of her life is transformed. Widely adapted into theater, ballet, radio, television and movie adaptations.

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born to a noble Russian family and produced some of the most outstanding works of realist fiction, including Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.  Tolstoy was also an advocate of democratic education, Christian anarchism, pacificism, and vegetarianism.