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Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. [ 2 ]
In 1879, unhappy with Ganzen having chosen Anna Karenina to start with, Goncharov insisted: "War and Peace is the extraordinary poem of a novel, both in content and execution. It also serves as a monument to Russian history's glorious epoch when whatever figure you take is a colossus, a statue in bronze.
[1] [2] An expanded eight-part version titled Anna Karenina aired on the Russia-1 television channel. [ 3 ] It is a free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy 's 1877 novel of the same name which also combines the publicistic story "During the Japanese War " and the literary cycle "Stories about the Japanese War" by Vikenty Veresaev .
[1] [2] It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Moscow. [3] Tolstoy was born in the house, where he wrote both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. [2] He is buried nearby. Tolstoy called Yasnaya Polyana his "inaccessible literary stronghold". [4]
[1] During World War II Rosemary Edmonds was translator to General de Gaulle at Fighting France Headquarters in London, and after Liberation, in Paris. [2] After this Penguin Books commissioned a series of translations from her. Tolstoy was her speciality. [3] Her translation of Anna Karenina, entitled Anna Karenin, appeared in 1954.
The six-part series is a contemporary re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's classic 1877 novel Anna Karenina. [1] It is directed by Glendyn Ivin and Peter Salmon and produced by Endemol Australia's John Edwards and Imogen Banks. [2] It premiered on Sunday 18 October 2015 at 8:30pm. [3]
The film was based on the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Countess Anna Karenina vacillates between her lover, Vronsky, and her husband, Count Karenin. Anna's love for Vronsky causes her great pain and social pressure. Vronsky wants Anna to leave her husband, but Vronsky soon goes off to war, rendering her helpless.
1970: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian composer Yuly Sergeyevich Meytus. [12] 1978: Anna Karenina by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton on his own libretto, premièred by ENO at the London Coliseum in 1981. 2007: Anna Karenina, an American opera with music by David Carlson on a libretto by Colin Graham which premiered in 2007 at Florida Grand Opera.