Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina. Gift book bound in leather.

"Anna Karenina"

According to the fame of the origin, Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" is comparable only to "My uncle has the most honest rules..." However, it was Pushkin who served as an example to Leo Nikolaevich: "That's how we write. Pushkin gets right down to business." And Tolstoy proceeds to "Anna Karenina" just as directly: "All happy families are similar to each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything got mixed up in the Oblonsky house..." To retell further the plot of one of the most popular novels in the whole world is a thankless undertaking. Because the tragic ending of this work is even more famous than its beginning. Tolstoy called "Anna Karenina" a "novel from modern life", a novel "lively and hot". At least thirty film adaptations of Anna Karenina speak about how hot he is to this day. And an interesting pattern: after each successful film adaptation, a series of new translations of Tolstoy's masterpiece into many languages follows. People all over the civilized world want to find out as accurately as possible how it was. We are lucky: we can read the great book right away in Russian.