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The novel “Anna Karenina” begins with a quote about happy families that are alike. Tolstoy was interested in something completely different: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All stories begin with the Oblonsky family. Their family is facing divorce. The quarrel began with the fact that Stiva cheated on his wife Dolly with another woman, namely the governess, and she found out about it. All spiritual ties that had ever connected them disappeared between them.
Their divorce could have had a colossal impact on all the residents of the Oblonsky house, that is, this whole mess had certain consequences that affect those who were not even involved in the quarrel. This situation very similar to a stone falling into water. Where he fell was quiet and calm, but in the area of ​​the incident there were rustling and rustling circles. In this novel, such a “pebble” is Stiva Oblonsky.
The entire novel consists of two storylines. The first one tells about the life of Anna Karenina. Second story line talks about the next main character - Konstantin Levin.
Since childhood, he has known the Shcherbatsky family, in which three daughters were raised. Previously, the family had a son, but already at the beginning of the novel it is said that he died. The eldest daughter is Dolly, who was mentioned. The youngest, Kitty, is the lover of the main character, Levin. Almost nothing is said about the third.
Levin, although he had a large profit, lived in the village, because he did not like large cluster people and believed that people in villages are kinder than in big cities. Levin arrived at the Shcherbatsky estate on the day before the ball that this family was organizing. He visited Kitty and asked her to marry him, to which Kitty responded negatively. Although she struggled for a long time, choosing who exactly she needed and who she wanted to see as her groom. As a result, she, perplexed about her choice, listened to her mother’s advice.
The youngest daughter of a large family already had a lover, Alexei Vronsky, and believed that he would propose to her at the ball. Offended and offended, Levin returns to the village, continuing to suffer from unreciprocated love. But before his unexpected departure, he visits his brother Nikolai. He is very sick, although he does not stop drinking alcohol in large quantities. As a result, life brought him to the point where he lives in a small room with a woman he met in a brothel. Despite what his brother has become, Konstantin loves him and offers his help.
At the request of Stiva's brother, the main character of the novel of the same name comes to Moscow. But this is the only thing he did to improve his relationship with his wife. He continued to live an ordinary life. Sleep peacefully, eat with appetite, read the newspaper with interest, admire yourself in the mirror, admire yourself in the mirror. Dolly behaves absolutely, she is very unhappy.
Karenina left St. Petersburg and her son for the first time after marriage. She spent the entire journey with Count Vronsky's mother, and they both told each other about their beloved sons and admired them. Anna desperately wanted to see Vronsky in person and compare him with the image in her head that she had drawn up from her mother’s stories. When they met at the station, Vronsky realized that this woman was special, different from everyone else. Vronsky was one of Stiva’s many friends, and while they were waiting at the station for the train to arrive, he told Vronsky a lot about his sister.
At that time, a tragedy occurred at the station. The man who fell under the train made a depressing and terrifying impression on Anna Karenina and, on top of everything, greatly influenced her future life.
Anna Karenina was able to influence Dolly and persuade her to forgive her husband. Stiva is not going to say goodbye to his past life and accept the role of a sincere and decent husband. Although the reader should notice that Stiva began to treat his wife better as he realized how much she loved him.
Kitty, having met Anna Karenina, noticed in her an extraordinary woman, a strong, confident and devoted wife. Naturally, after such an acquaintance, Kitty set an example for herself and tried in every possible way to imitate Anna.
At the ball, Vronsky paid a lot of attention to Karenina, for which she was embarrassed in front of Kitty. There, those around them began to realize that a spark had broken out between them.
After the ball, Karenina, with a heaviness in her soul, leaves the free life that she liked and returns home to her unloved husband. IN early age Anna married a wealthy and not very attractive man. In other words, by calculation. They had a son, Seryozha. She respected her husband, but she believed that he was like a robot: his day was clearly planned out in minutes and seconds.
It was terribly difficult for Vronsky to part with Anna, and he followed her to St. Petersburg. Kitty, in turn, was struck by Vronsky’s insensitivity, as well as by the meanness and tactlessness of Karenina, towards whom she sharply changed her mind. After everything that happened, she was very upset, sad and Last year I was very sick. The mother was initially against marriage with Levin; she believed that he would not be able to give his daughter such wealth as Vronsky. The father, on the contrary, respected Levin very much and considered him the best match for his daughter.
In St. Petersburg, communication between Karenin and Vronsky became more and more heated. She tried her best to avoid him, but she failed. He followed her everywhere and, wherever she came, he was present at the same evenings and dinners. Not only Karenina, but the whole society began to notice this.
After some time, Anna succumbed to Vronsky’s influence and became his mistress. She stopped respecting herself after that and felt very guilty before her husband and son Seryozha. She wanted to leave Karenin, leave him, since he stood in the way of her happiness, but she could not leave her son because she would not be happy without him, under any circumstances.
Levin continues to live an ordinary life. Despite everything, he has a good income, communicates with villagers and workers on equal terms, and even enjoys the hard work of the villagers.
Karenin learned about the union of Anna and Alexei Vronsky at the races. The lover took part in a horse race, where he was careless and fell from his horse. Anna, stunned by what was happening, began screaming at the audience. Karenin was as amazed as society that she showed great interest in the cute young man. It was then that Karenina told her husband that she already had a child from her lover. She told her husband not only about her infidelity, but also about her dislike and disgust for him.
Alexey Karenin understands that he is in a very difficult situation and is trying in every possible way to correct the situation. In his imagination, he foresaw everything that such a situation could lead to and looked at all the solutions. Karenin was even ready for a duel, but stopped his plan in time. Knowing his wife’s sore spot, he is not going to give her his son in the event of a divorce. As a result, he accepts the illegitimate child as his own and forbids Anna to communicate with Count Vronsky, with which Anna agrees.
During the birth, Anna is looked after by the best doctors, but even they cannot say for sure whether she will survive or not. Vronsky comes to Karenin’s house to say goodbye to his mistress. After which he comes home and tries to commit suicide.
Attempts to save the family were unsuccessful. Karenina hates her husband and at the same moment feels great pity for him. She comprehends her situation and makes a choice. Anna leaves her beloved son and husband, going with Vronsky and their daughter Anechka to Italy.
At this time, in the village, Levin began writing his book about the village and agriculture. All employees respect Levin very much and sometimes travel long distances just to ask for advice. Afterwards, he learns about Kitty’s illness and sees her riding in a carriage to visit her sister, and they are again overcome by sadness.
He decides to go visit the Oblonskys and talk to Kitty again. This time, Konstantin’s hopes came true, and Kitty reciprocated his feelings. Kitty is happy that she gets to see Levin again. After the engagement, they go to the village and continue to live the everyday life of Constantine.
Anna Karenina and Alexey Vronsky continue their journey through Italy. Anna feels happiness and relief for the first time. She doesn’t think about her husband, or her son, or how society treats her after all her deeds. Vronsky treats Anna well and tries himself in some activities, but nothing works out for him, so he quits everything without finishing.
When they returned to St. Petersburg, only Anna noticed how much the whole society hated her. The reason for Anna's return was her son's birthday. Karenin would never have allowed her to meet him. But she came without permission and saw Seryozha. It turned out that the son was told that his mother had died, but Seryozha was very glad that his mother had come. After a short meeting, she left without even saying anything to her husband, who surprised her. Karenina understands that without her son she will never be happy. Vronsky invites her to go to the village, and they leave.
At this time, Konstantin and Kitty experience the complexity of life together. In just a few months of marriage, they have already experienced a huge number of quarrels and reconciliations. Levin learns that his brother is dying and the young family immediately moves out. Kitty treats Nikolai normally and carefully looks after him. On the day of her brother’s death, which could not be avoided, Kitty announces to her husband that she is pregnant. All the relatives came to hear this news.
Dolly, who came to see Kitty, finds out that Anna lives nearby and is going to visit her. After a short conversation, Dolly realized that Karenin’s joy and happiness were feigned and in fact she was deeply unhappy.
Between Vronsky and Karenina there is no longer the same understanding and agreement in everything. Knowing that he gave up his whole life for her, she constantly reproaches him. He still sometimes returns to her and visits the society that hated Anna. She is jealous of everything and the only way out of this situation is marriage, but Karenin refuses to divorce his wife.
Anna and Alexey Vronsky quarrel, after which he leaves to live with his mother. Anna did not believe him until the very end and believed that he was cheating on her. The only thing she wanted was for him to suffer the same way she did now. She went to the station and as soon as she saw the train, she remembered the little man who threw himself under the train on the day of their first meeting. Anna immediately decided not to hesitate and, having found the right place, fell under the train. IN last minutes In her life, she very much regretted what she had done, but it was too late to do anything.
Karenina was able to make Vronsky suffer. Since he had already tried to commit suicide once, his mother began to hide sharp and any other things from him that he could use to harm himself. After a while, Alexey Vronsky went to war in Serbia with the hope that he would not return. The mother was very upset by her son’s behavior and defiled Anna in front of society for treating him so disgustingly. Vronsky gave his daughter Anechka to Karenin. And Alexey Alekseevich began to raise his son and adopted daughter alone without a mother.
Society perceived this as an ordinary, unremarkable thing. Many believed that she deserved it and after everything she had done, she could not avoid such a fate.
Levin suffers for long days. He cannot find the meaning of life and death. Everything came at him at once: the birth of a child and the death of his brother. He was guessing for a long time and was already on the verge of suicide, but soon he achieved complete harmony with himself. He didn’t know how long it would last, but he was sure that he should enjoy every day and be happy.

Name: Anna Karenina

Genre: Novel

Duration: 7min 58sec

Annotation:

In the family of Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky (Steve, as he is called) there was a rift with his wife Dolly (Daria Shcherbatskaya). To reconcile the spouses, his sister Anna comes from St. Petersburg to Moscow. She travels on the train with Alexey Vronsky's mother. Vronsky arrived to meet his mother and saw Anna Karenina.
While in Moscow, Vronsky often visited the Shcherbatskys’ house and showed signs of attention to one of their daughters, Kitty (Katerina). It was assumed that the brilliant officer Alexei Vronsky and the landowner Konstantin Levin might ask for her hand. However, Kitty gave preference to Vronsky, and Levin received a refusal from her. But after meeting Anna, Vronsky forgot about Kitty. Kitty fell ill from the disorder and was taken abroad for treatment. After recovery, she returned home. After some time, her relationship with Levin resumed, and she married him.
Vronsky meets Anna again at one of the Moscow balls. They spent the whole evening together. The next day Anna went home to St. Petersburg, where her son Seryozha and her husband Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin were waiting for her.
Vronsky, on whom Anna made an unforgettable impression, follows her to St. Petersburg. From that time on, wherever Anna appeared, she met Vronsky. This went on for almost a year. And over time, their feelings could no longer be contained and hidden. Soon this became known to both her husband and secular society.
Anna's husband, realizing that he cannot change this situation in any way, tells Anna that he is ready to turn a blind eye to what happened, provided that she no longer sees Vronsky and gives food for gossip.
However, Anna is expecting a child from Vronsky. Karenin comes to the idea of ​​divorce. Anna is confused. She is afraid of the future. She cannot imagine her life without Vronsky. At the same time, she considers herself a fallen woman and does not know how to break the current situation. She gave birth to a girl. After giving birth, she became so seriously ill that everyone believed that she would not survive. However, she recovered, and she and Vronsky went on a trip to Europe. After returning, they settled together in St. Petersburg. Anna tries not to pay attention to the gossip in the world, but cannot help but notice the insults that she has to endure. They leave for the village, to Vronsky’s family estate, where they spend their time very happily away from the world. However, by autumn he decides to return to Moscow. Vronsky hopes that Anna will resolve the divorce issue; many times he rushes her to resolve this issue. But winter passed, and she only became more and more nervous and did not take steps to resolve this difficult situation. She began to suspect that his love for her had diminished. Almost none of her former acquaintances visit her. My husband does not allow me to see my son. Anna is very lonely. She is constantly nervous and sleeps poorly. Disputes and irritation began to arise between them more and more often. They decided to go to the estate again. Before leaving, Vronsky had to see his mother and went to his mother’s estate. Anna decides to go after him in order to convict him of something. And she decides not to return to his house. At the train station she feels completely confused and lost. Seeing the train, she realized what she had to do to finish everything at once. And threw herself under the train.
Vronsky could not come to his senses for a long time after Anna’s death. He decided to assemble a squadron at his own expense and left with the soldiers for Serbia to fight.

Anna Karenina - summary

A crisis develops in the Oblonsky family when Dolly learns about her husband's affairs. Steve's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to reconcile the couple and dissuades Dolly from getting a divorce. Konstantin Levin, Stiva's friend, comes to Moscow to propose marriage to eighteen-year-old Kitty Shcherbatskaya. She refuses him because she loves Count Vronsky, a dashing officer who has no intention of getting married. After meeting the beautiful Anna Karenina, Vronsky falls in love. He and Anna are so passionate about each other at the ball that Kitty's hopes for Vronsky are dashed. Anna returns to her husband and son in St. Petersburg, while a disappointed Levin returns to his estate.

Kitty falls ill after Vronsky's humiliating refusal. While undergoing treatment in Germany, she tries to deny her feminine nature and wants to become religious. But, realizing the hypocrisy of these thoughts, Kitty returns to Russia, cured of her depression and ready to accept her status married woman. Anna is trying to break off the relationship with her lover and start new life, but by this time she is already expecting a child from Vronsky. Anna is forced to confess to her husband about her adultery.

Devoting myself agriculture, Levin is trying to find the meaning of life outside of marriage. He spends his energy developing a joint land tenure system with his peasants so that the best way use the land. Seeing how his brother Nikolai is hopelessly ill with tuberculosis, he understands that he works so as not to wait for death. He also understands that he will always love Kitty. Vronsky is torn between career and love; he still cannot decide to marry Anna. At this time, Anna, having broken off relations with her husband, continues to love and suffer according to Vronsky; this life conflict seems insoluble to her.

Kitty and Levin are preparing for the wedding. Karenin, who tried to remain calm due to his wife's infidelity, finally breaks down and hires a divorce lawyer. Anna's daughter is born, she is sick from childbed fever. Karenin forgives her and feels a surge of humanity and Christian mercy in himself. He explains to Vronsky. Vronsky feels so humiliated that he tries to commit suicide, but only wounds himself. After recovery, Anna and Vronsky, together with their little daughter Anechka, leave to travel to Italy. Anna refuses to divorce Karenin, fearing that her husband will take her son Seryozha away from her.

Levin and Kitty, after the wedding, can’t get used to each other, but then everything gets better. The death of his brother Nikolai Levin touches deeply, and he understands that feelings, and not reason, allow him to overcome life's problems. He soon finds out that Kitty is pregnant. After a honeymoon in Italy, Anna and Vronsky returned to St. Petersburg. She yearns for her son, who was forcibly taken from her by her husband, Anna's love for Vronsky becomes more and more desperate. Now Vronsky is the only person close to her. Despite his objections, she boldly visits the theater, but behind their meetings they whisper and condemn her behavior from behind their eyes. Insulted at the opera, she blames Vronsky for his lack of sympathy for her, and he is angry at her indiscretion. They often quarrel for this reason.

Dolly visits Anna on the estate, where she lives with Vronsky and daughter Anna. Anna looks great, she tells Dolly that she will not have any more children, because she wants to be beautiful and Vronsky likes her. She is afraid that Vronsky might leave her. She pays little attention to her daughter, but is very passionate about housekeeping. She no longer wants a divorce from Karenin, but she wants her son to be with her. She still misses him so much. Vronsky increasingly begins to feel that Anna’s annoying love is increasingly a burden to him. He realizes that he is completely losing his independence. He leaves the estate for provincial elections. Anna tries not to bother him. But she doesn’t succeed for long. Anna starts taking morphine. She writes him zealous, tearful letters. Makes me come back. He deceives that their daughter Anna is seriously ill. Vronsky returns and immediately reveals the deception regarding his daughter’s illness. He is burdened by constant showdowns and Anna's obsessive love. He himself no longer wants Anna and Karenin to divorce.

Anna Karenina

Part one

“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything is mixed up in the Oblonskys’ house.” Stepan Arkadyevich cheats on his wife Dolly with a French governess. He and Dolly have six children, Dolly was very upset by this, and it seemed to him that his free behavior should be accepted calmly by his wife. Dolly declares that she intends to go with the children to her mother. Even a telegram with the news of the arrival of Stepan Arkadyevich’s sister Anna (Karenina’s husband) does not contribute to the reconciliation of the spouses. Stepan Arkadyevich or Stiva works as the head of one of the government offices in Moscow and earns little. At the service, he unexpectedly meets an old acquaintance, Konstantin Levin. They are both about thirty-five years old and have known each other since childhood.

Levin came to propose to Kitty Shcherbatskaya, Dolly’s younger sister. Since childhood, Levin has been in love with the Shcherbatsky house itself, which for him is filled with poetry and mystery. In Moscow, Levin stays with his older maternal brother Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev, a business man. They remember their third brother Nikolai, who moved away from the family, went downhill, squandered his fortune and began to drink. Levin consults with Oblonsky about his chances of getting consent to marry Kitty, and Stiva encourages him. Levin finds it difficult to decide; his feeling seems special to him, and Kitty seems like an extraordinary girl. Kitty is eighteen years old. Her parents would be glad to see Levin as Kitty's husband, but the young officer Count Vronsky begins to court Kitty, and the mother's sympathies immediately turn to the new contender for Kitty's hand. Stiva reports this to Levin. He goes to explain himself to Kitty, and she refuses him. Vronsky himself is not going to get married. He never knew family life, I didn’t remember my father, my mother, a brilliant socialite, did little with the children. He has tender feelings for Kitty, but nothing more.

The next day after Kitty and Levin’s explanation, Oblonsky and Vronsky meet at the station. Stiva is awaiting the arrival of his sister Anna, Vronsky is expecting his mother. Both women rode together. Anna amazes Vronsky at first sight. “Brilliant gray eyes, which seemed dark from the thick eyelashes, stopped in a friendly, attentive manner on his face, as if she recognized him, and immediately moved to the approaching crowd, as if looking for someone. In this short glance, Vronsky managed to notice restrained liveliness, which played in her face and fluttered between sparkling eyes and a barely noticeable smile that curved her rosy lips, as if an excess of something so overwhelmed her being that, against her will, it was expressed either in the brilliance of her gaze or in a smile.”

While the Karenins and Vronskys are on the platform, a drunken railway guard falls under the train. Anna offers to help the widow, and Vronsky gives two hundred rubles. Stiva asks Anna to reconcile him with his wife. Anna manages to convince Dolly not to leave Stiva; this is facilitated by the fact that Dolly has nowhere to go (her mother does not need her, she has no other patrons or income). Anna reminds Dolly how much Stiva loved her and assures her that her brother will not stumble in the future. Kitty comes to visit the Oblonskys. She is captivated by Anna, her ability to present herself, the ease of her movements, and her poetic attitude towards life. In the evening, Vronsky stops by, but when he sees Anna, he refuses to come in. Everyone finds this strange. At the ball, Kitty sees Anna. She is in a black dress that emphasizes the dignity of her figure. Vronsky dances a waltz with Kitty. Soon Kitty notices that Vronsky is paying increased attention Anna, and she revels in her success. Kitty refuses other gentlemen, but Vronsky dances only with Anna.

At the end of the ball, Anna casually announces that tomorrow she is leaving home for St. Petersburg. On the train she sees Vronsky. He admits that he went after her. On the platform in St. Petersburg, Anna notices her husband. He is subconsciously unpleasant to her. Alexey Alexandrovich is much older than his wife, he holds a high position in the ministry, and prefers not to talk about his feelings. His whole life is as ordered as possible, which goes against Anna’s temperamental nature. They have an eight-year-old son, Seryozha. He greets his mother joyfully, but is a little afraid and shy of his father.

Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin's day is scheduled minute by minute. The service takes up almost all of his time, but, nevertheless, he considers it his duty to follow the latest literature, events in politics, and studies philosophical and theological works. Art is alien to his nature, although he is well educated and considers it possible for himself to judge poetry, music, etc. Vronsky, once in Moscow, intends to lead a social life and visit those houses where he will almost certainly be able to meet the Karenins.

Part two

At the end of winter, a medical consultation gathers in the Shcherbatskys’ house. Kitty is suspected of having the onset of tuberculosis, the cause of which is a nervous breakdown. Everyone at home knows that the problem is that Vronsky “terribly deceived” Kitty’s hopes, so a decision is made to go abroad for treatment, since the girl urgently needs a change of scenery. Anna and Vronsky often see each other in the house cousin Vronsky Princess Betsy Tverskaya. Many people in the world already know about their mutual sympathy, and Betsy specially arranges dates for them. The only one who does not find anything reprehensible in Anna meeting with Vronsky and spending a lot of time with him in public view is Karenin himself.

Anna unexpectedly demands that Vronsky go to Moscow and ask Kitty for forgiveness. Friends at home begin to hint to Alexei Alexandrovich that his wife is not behaving in accordance with decency, this offends Karenin, and he starts a conversation with Anna, which leads nowhere, Anna denies everything and pretends that she does not understand what angered her husband . Finally, the relationship between Anna and Vronsky moves from platonic attraction to physical love. Anna is ashamed, it seems to her that everything is over, and she reminds Vronsky again and again that she has nothing but him. She dreams that she has two husbands, and both of them caress her.

Levin, having retired to his estate, pays a lot of attention to managing the farm, delving into the details of fertilizing the soil, the state of affairs in the barnyard, and sowing. He makes profitable deals with merchants and generally shows himself to be a very zealous owner. Stiva Oblonsky comes to see him, but does not tell him anything about Kitty’s fate. The friends hunt together, and Levin still finds out from Stiva the details of Kitty’s illness and the Shcherbatskys’ plans. Stiva accuses Levin of lacking proper persistence and cowardice in front of his opponent, and regrets that Levin did not fight for Kitty’s hand, but immediately retreated.

In St. Petersburg, a scandal is brewing, since there are many people who want to slander the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. Countess Vronskaya also does not approve of her son's behavior, since staying in St. Petersburg (where he can constantly see Karenina) interferes with his career. Vronsky is very bothered by Seryozha, Anna’s son, who often becomes an obstacle to their relationship. Vronsky insists that Anna leave her husband and son and begin to live with him as a wife. Anna makes an excuse by saying that her husband will never give her a divorce, and she does not agree to the position of a mistress. At the same time, Anna constantly insists that she cannot live in a lie, but continues to deceive her husband. However, she herself does not want to keep her secret, and she wants to tell everything to her husband so that everything becomes clear between them. The feelings of Alexei Alexandrovich, for whom a public scandal is tantamount to the end of his career and who prefers to live by conventions (i.e., lies from Anna’s point of view), do not concern her at all.

At the races, due to Vronsky’s incorrect movement, the horse under him falls and breaks its back. Anna does not take her eyes off him during the race. Seeing Vronsky on the ground, Anna completely betrays herself: she rushes about, gasps loudly, does not notice that her husband is inviting her to leave, points binoculars at Vronsky, and sobs loudly. Only after learning that the rider is unharmed does she somehow calm down. On the way home, she informs her husband that she is in a love affair with Vronsky, and is afraid and hates Alexei Alexandrovich. Karenin demands compliance with external conventions and leaves immediately.

The Shcherbatskys travel. On the waters they meet Madame Stahl, a Russian lady who moves in a wheelchair, and Varenka, a girl who looks after her. Varenka is always busy, always helping someone, resolving conflicts. Varenka is the adopted daughter of Madame Stahl. Kitty really likes her, and she becomes close to this active and compassionate person. Kitty tells Varenka about the story with Vronsky, she consoles and reassures her, urging her to take a more balanced approach to the vicissitudes of fate, assures that Kitty’s case is far from the only one, Kitty tries to follow Varenka’s example and look after the sick artist Petrov, but incurs the suspicions of Petrov’s wife . In addition, it turns out that Madame Stahl has not gotten up for ten years, not because she is dangerously ill, but because she is poorly built (short legs). Kitty recovers, and the Shcherbatskys go to Moscow.

Part three

Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev comes to the village to visit Levin to rest. He discovers that his brother easily communicates with peasants and understands the farm. The brothers have long conversations about the people, about the need for education, and it turns out that the armchair reformer Koznyshev faces stubborn opposition from the practitioner Levin. During mowing, Levin works equally with the men; he seems to be resting in a heavy physical labor, he really likes working on the land.

Next door to Levin's estate (Pokrovskoye) is the Oblonsky village of Ergushovo, where Dolly and her children go to cut costs. The house is completely unfurnished, and Dolly herself is in despair from the huge number of economic problems that have befallen her. Levin visits her and makes the necessary orders, which helps Dolly a lot and allows her to quickly improve her life and find a common language with the servants.

A grateful Dolly tells him that she has invited Kitty to stay with her for the summer. She wants to reconcile her sister with Levin, but he admits to Dolly that he proposed to Kitty, which she rejected. Dolly tries as delicately as possible to convince him that all is not lost, and that he does not need to consider himself insulted. Karenin is trying to convince himself that Anna’s crime should not throw him off balance, that he needs to continue living as if nothing had happened, that what happened is his wife’s problem, that he is not the first and he is not the last deceived husband. He decides not to fight a duel, obeying the voice of reason, not to start a lawsuit that will only harm his impeccable reputation. He is not jealous of Anna, he is considering the possibility of living separately, but comes to the conclusion that this will only contribute to his wife’s “promiscuity”, and decides that best option- live as before, only without respecting Anna.

Karenin is confident that over time the affair will end and his relationship with his wife will be restored. He sends Anna a polite letter, in which he sets out the conclusions he has come to, promises the same financial support, and explains the need to preserve the family - first of all, for the sake of Seryozha. Anna, having received the letter, behaves quite impulsively. She decides to take Seryozha and leave her husband, orders her things to be packed, but then unpacks them. She understands that she cannot neglect the light and the way of life that she is used to leading, but she is also not ready for the role of a mistress, she cries bitterly, asks herself questions where only “I” is heard, etc.

Vronsky intends to sort out his situation. First of all, he settles his financial affairs and finds out that his income should not be increased (for Anna, for example), but cut. Then it turns out that Anna is pregnant. Vronsky is faced with the need to retire. Anna is waiting for a decision from him, but at his first word she is ready to leave both her husband and son and leave with Vronsky. She admits (without any reason) to her husband that she cannot change anything, and he declares that he is ignoring her and again demands to behave decently. The daughter of the leader of the Sviyazhsky district is being wooed to Levin. During a visit to Sviyazhsky, Levin expresses his thoughts on the need to conduct farming in Russia in a Russian, and not a foreign, manner, and to take into account the character traits of Russian peasants and workers.

He is not sure of the usefulness of schools, because schools will not boost the economy: “Schools will not help, but an economic system will help in which the people will be richer, there will be more leisure, and then there will be schools.” He believes that peasants should be interested in the success of the farm and should be paid more. Levin begins to rationally organize his economy. Levin's reforms meet with misunderstanding on the part of the peasants. Housekeeping takes up so much effort and time that Levin doesn’t even pay attention to Kitty’s arrival in Ergushovo.

Part four

The Karenins continue to live in the same house, Anna still sees Vronsky. She experiences attacks of jealousy more and more often, and Vronsky begins to grow cold towards her. Anna is furious because her husband remains completely calm outwardly; she wants him to kill her, but to stop her “torture.” Anna constantly repeats to both Karenin and Vronsky that she will soon die (from childbirth). One day, Karenin runs into Vronsky on the porch of his house, forces his wife to explain himself to him, announces that he is moving to Moscow and taking Seryozha, Karenin goes to a lawyer to find out if a divorce is possible, but realizing that for the process it is necessary to make his wife's love letters public , decides not to start litigation. He leaves for Moscow.

While visiting the Oblonskys, Kitty meets Levin again. Karenin is also present there. To Dolly’s attempts to talk to him about reconciliation with Anna, he coldly replies that he does not see such a possibility. “I can’t forgive, and I don’t want to, and I think it’s unfair. I did everything for this woman, and she trampled everything into the dirt that is characteristic of her.” Kitty spends the whole evening with Levin. They understand each other perfectly, declare their love (they write the first letters of the words of the explanation in chalk). In fact, Kitty agrees to marry Levin and invites him to propose to her parents. They approve of their daughter's choice. Preparations for the wedding begin.

Karenin receives a telegram from Anna, in which she writes about her imminent death and begs him to come. Knowing Anna's character, Alexey Alexandrovich decides that this is a trick, but still sets off on his journey. In the house he finds a crying Vronsky and a confused servant; Anna gave birth to a girl, but she herself is dying (puerperal fever). She is delirious, but when she regains consciousness, she calls her husband, calls him a saint, and asks for forgiveness. Karenin explains to Vronsky, saying that he has forgiven Anna everything. Vronsky leaves, goes home and decides to shoot himself, but only wounds himself. Then he decides to leave for Tashkent, but asks permission to see Anna first. Anna remains to live.

While everything in the house revolves around her, Alexey Alexandrovich manages to arrange medical care for her and arrange for the newborn (find a wet nurse, etc.). Anna recovers, but falls into apathy, and her husband does nothing to change her living conditions (he neither takes her away nor gives her a divorce). Oblonsky begins a conversation with Karenin and again starts talking about divorce. Karenin is beside himself because he is in Once again trampled into the dirt - after all his generous deeds. He agrees to give a divorce. Vronsky does not go to Tashkent, but leaves for Italy with Anna and little Anya. Alexey Alexandrovich is left alone with Seryozha.

Part five

Preparations for the wedding are in full swing at the Shcherbatskys' house. Levin really likes “happy chores”; he even fasts and confesses, which he has not done for many years. He confesses to the priest that he doubts the existence of God; and he urges him to believe for the sake of his future children. The priest treats Levin kindly, does not demand vows from him, and Levin waits for the wedding day with a pure soul, rejoicing that he will not have to lie. The wedding ceremony is described very solemnly. Everything seems unusually majestic to Levin, he is grateful to the priest who found the right words, happy that standing nearby Kitty feels the same as he does.

That same evening the young people leave for the village. At first, inexperienced spouses cannot get used to each other - petty quarrels and petty jealousy poison their happiness. Three months later they return to Moscow, and their lives improve. They receive news that Levin’s brother, Nikolai, is dying, a woman (from the street) lives with him, who takes care of him to the best of her ability. Kitty decides to go with her husband. She manages to quickly find a common language with Nikolai, who is immediately attracted to her by her sincerity and compassion, while in the company of Konstantin himself, Nikolai feels uncomfortable. Nikolai is capricious, he dies long and painfully. Kitty's health is also deteriorating. The doctor determines pregnancy.

Vronsky and Anna travel around Europe. Anna persuades herself to be guilty towards her husband, but, despite all her efforts, she does not feel even a shadow of guilt. She wants to see Seryozha, and she and Vronsky return to St. Petersburg. There they are awaited by the wary attitude of the light, which does not want to take them back. Anna decides to see her son on his birthday at all costs. Alexey Alexandrovich “could not in any way reconcile his recent forgiveness, his tenderness, his love for his sick wife and someone else’s child with what now happened, that is, with the fact that, as if as a reward for all this, he now found himself alone, disgraced , ridiculed, unwanted and despised by everyone."

He strives with all his might to forget himself, to immerse himself in his work, to seem unperturbed, but he comes to despair from the consciousness of his complete loneliness. All women are disgusting to him, he has no friends, all his relatives are dead. Countess Lidia Ivanovna begins to visit him frequently, who tries to support and encourage him and takes on the responsibilities of arranging Karenin’s life. She inspires Karenin with the idea of ​​the need for Seryozha’s complete isolation from Anna and announces to the boy that his mother has died. However, soon Lydia Ivanovna receives a letter from Anna, where she asks for assistance in arranging a meeting with her son. The Countess writes an answer in an insulting tone for Anna and refuses her. On top of that, Alexey Alexandrovich is no longer promoted, although he is still active and businesslike.

Karenin is trying to establish contact with Seryozha, is personally involved in his education, but cannot find an approach to the boy. Seryozha withdraws more and more into himself, misses his mother, realizing that he must love his father, cannot bring himself to be grateful to him. On Seryozha's birthday, Anna tricks her way into her husband's house. Seryozha is very happy with her, he admits that he never believed in her death. Karenin enters, and Anna runs away without giving Seryozha the toys she bought for him. Anna is bored locked up, and she, contrary to the advice of Vronsky (who suspects that this will not lead to good), goes to the theater. One of the ladies, Kartasova, insults Anna, declaring that it is shameful to sit next to Karenina. Although most of those present agree that this is an evil and undignified prank, a scandal is guaranteed. Returning home, Anna blames Vronsky for everything.

Part six

Dolly is visiting Kitty in Pokrovskoye. Varenka also arrives, she takes care of Kitty. Levin's brother Sergei Ivanovich shows signs of attention to Varenka. Everyone is waiting for Koznyshev’s proposal, he himself has been preparing for a long time, but still does not dare to make it. Stiva arrives with his friend Veslovsky, who begins to look after Kitty. Both of them cause active irritation in Levin, and he kicks Veslovsky out of his house. Dolly goes to visit Anna at the Vozdvizhenskoye estate, where she lives with Vronsky and daughter Anya.

Anna is still pretty, she pays a lot of attention to her wardrobe, and rides horseback. Anna is rather indifferent to her daughter; she does not know many of the small, tedious and charming details of upbringing. small child, which Dolly lived with all her life. Vronsky sets up a modern hospital and is passionate about housekeeping. Anna delves into his affairs, helps him as best she can, and begins to write a book for children. Few people visit them, so both of them are very grateful to Dolly for her action. Among other things, Anna happily tells Dolly that she will no longer be able to have children. She doesn't want to look bad and be pregnant, i.e. sick. She dreams only of Vronsky’s passionate love, realizing that he is not interested in her ailments and can leave her. Anna no longer even thinks about divorce; she pays little attention to her daughter, but wants to return Seryozha, whom, along with Vronsky, she loves.

She studies issues of architecture, agronomy, and horse breeding from books and magazines, achieving significant success, so that Vronsky himself sometimes turns to her for advice. He increasingly feels that Anna is entangling him with “invisible nets”; the thirst for independence is awakening in him more and more. He goes to provincial elections. Anna decides to make an effort on herself and not bother Vronsky with stormy scenes of jealousy and copious tears. However, it doesn't last long. She writes Vronsky a contradictory letter about Anya’s illness, sometimes demanding to come immediately, sometimes adding that she herself will come to him. In Vronsky’s absence, she begins to take morphine. Vronsky returns and immediately reveals the deception. The scenes are unpleasant for him, he is burdened by the endless showdowns, and he himself no longer wants Anna to divorce Karenin.

Part seven

The Levins move to Moscow. Konstantin pays visits, goes to the theater and everywhere feels equally out of place. Among others, he visits Anna and Vronsky. Anna tries to impress Levin, who admires her. Kitty accuses him of being in love with Anna (like Vronsky once did). Levin promises to avoid Karenina’s company from now on.

Kitty goes into labor. Levin is scared to death, he feels incredibly sorry for his suffering wife, he no longer wants a child and only prays that Kitty remains alive. Everything ends well. The Levins had a son, Dmitry. Stiva Oblonsky's affairs are in a deplorable state. He tries to work through Karenin for a salary increase, but he considers him an empty worker, although he agrees to “put in a good word.” Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin, together with Countess Lidia Ivanovna, attends meetings of a certain “mystical” society.

Anna suffers more and more from causeless jealousy, from isolation, from Vronsky’s cooling. She behaves more and more impulsively and selfishly, which further pushes her loved one away from her. She either asks for forgiveness, then pretends to be offended by pride, then again threatens to die, then showers Vronsky with passionate caresses. Vronsky is jarred by talk of love, which is almost gone, and the news of Karenin’s agreement to divorce is unpleasant to him. Anna dreams of punishing Vronsky for his coldness (even to her own detriment); she simply needs violent expressions of feelings, which has not been observed in her chosen one for a long time. Peace of mind completely lost by her, she contradicts herself, doesn’t know what she wants, can’t stay at home alone, rushes about, cries, writes meaningless notes to Vronsky. Anna goes to Dolly, hoping to receive sympathy and consolation from her, but finds Kitty at the Oblonskys. As if by chance, Anna notices that Levin was with her and she really liked her. Not finding an answer from Vronsky at home, Anna is completely immersed in painful and incoherent thoughts about her lost love. Remembering how on the day they met Vronsky, a train crushed a man in front of their eyes, Anna goes to the station and throws herself onto the rails.

Part Eight

Karenin takes little Anya. Happy Kitty raises Mitya, whom Levin also loves very much. The Levins give Dolly part of their estate to amend financial situation Oblonsky family. Vronsky leaves for Serbia. Levin, who thought a lot about God, comes to the idea that “the undoubted manifestation of God is the laws of good... in recognition of which I... am united with other people in one society of believers, which is called the church... my life is now ... not only is not meaningless, as it was before, but has an undoubted meaning of good, which I have the power to put into it!

At the end of the winter of 1873 in Moscow, a serious family conflict broke out in the Oblonsky house. Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky was caught by his wife in adultery with his governess. The prince himself was very a good man, but unfortunately did not like his job and his wife. And he had one more peculiarity: Steve, despite any problems, always found the time and energy to have dinner at a restaurant. And during this period, the Oblonskys were waiting for the prince’s sister Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, while Stiva was having dinner at a restaurant with his friend, Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin, who had come from the village.

Levin has long been in love with an eighteen-year-old girl, Kitty Shcherbatskaya. He intends to offer her his hand and heart, but understands that she will not pay attention to a simple landowner. Kitty herself cannot understand her feelings. She is very easy and calm with Levin, but she is also very nice to another man - a representative of the St. Petersburg “golden youth”, Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky. But Kitty does not know that Vronsky does not want to marry her, due to the fact that the girl does not know this, in the hope of a happy future with Alexei, Kitty refuses Levin.

Anna Karenina comes to town. During her arrival at the station, she is noticed by Vronsky, who was struck by the beauty of the woman. Vronsky himself came to meet his mother, who came from St. Petersburg. But at that moment, at the station, the station guard gets hit by a train. Anna Karenina sees this sight and considers it a bad sign.

Thanks to Anna Dolly, Stiva Oblonsky’s wife forgives her husband for treason. After this, she goes to the ball in the company of the Oblonskys and Shcherbatskys. In it, Kitty hopes for Vronsky’s explanation and admires Anna’s beauty. But a little later, the girl notices that her lover and Anna are communicating very tenderly; an inexplicable craving for each other is noticeable in all their gestures. After some time, Anna Karenina left for St. Petersburg. Vronsky also went there. And Levin did not stop blaming himself for his failure with Kitty; he went to the village, where he set strict limits for himself that were there before.

Arriving in St. Petersburg, Anna felt very depressed. She was married to a man older than her, and for whom she had no feelings other than respect. She and Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin had an eight-year-old son, Seryozha, but even he did not save Anna from betrayal. The fact is that she fell in love with Vronsky, just as Vronsky fell in love with her. They became lovers. Despite this, in order not to show their relationship, they ordinary life, but the public still understood the nature of the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. This character was clear to Anna Karenina’s husband. He repeatedly tried to talk to his wife, but it was useless. And only once he could not stand it, when at a race, where all the high society was present, Vronsky fell from his horse, and Anna, not knowing the severity of the injury, became very worried. It was then that Alexey Alexandrovich took his wife to the dacha, where he forbade communication with Vronsky and threatened that if she cheated, he would kick her out and not allow her to see her son. But he told her this after the woman told him that she was disgusted with him and that she was cheating on him. Anna, frightened, agreed to his conditions, but her husband, wanting to further humiliate the woman, set strict limits for her, within which she was obliged to create the impression of a happy Karenin family. But Alexey Alexandrovich did not know that after a year of relationship with Vronsky, Anna was expecting a child from her lover.

The life of three people was unbearable. Anna suffered because of such conditions of her husband, she loved Vronsky, and she had a mixed feeling of hatred and compassion for Alexei Alexandrovich. But Vronsky was racking his brains about what to do in this situation. He loved Anna, but if they decided to go against everything and be together, Vronsky would have to quit his service, which he really didn’t want, because he liked her.

Some time later, Anna Karenina gives birth to a girl, but during the birth process, she almost died. Her husband is very worried about her, from whom Anna asks forgiveness for everything. Vronsky was saved in time when he wanted to shoot himself, after he was rejected by Anna, who was in a fever.

But after Anna recovers from a difficult birth, she becomes even more disgusted with Karenin. He, in turn, tenderly cares for the newborn girl. But even this did not help avoid Anna, her daughter and Vronsky, who resigned, from escaping abroad.

Meanwhile, Levin lives in the village. The meaning of his life became the peasants, whom he respected and protected. Levin believed that zemstvo activities did not benefit the peasants. He writes books, enjoys authority among local men, and dreams of a simple working life. He stopped dreaming about family happiness, forgot about his feelings, but suddenly he finds out about Kitty’s illness, and again his heart melted. A little later, he meets a girl while she was on her way to visit her sister in the village. And already in the Oblonskys’ house, Levin realizes that his feelings are mutual, and Kitty agrees to the marriage proposal. They get married and leave for the village.

The life of Anna and Vronsky was cloudless at first. A lot of travel, love, Vronsky tried to support Anna as much as possible at the time of her separation from her son. But when they returned to St. Petersburg, joy gave way to misfortune. Everyone who knew Vronsky and Anna turned away from them, they stopped respecting Anna and no one communicated with her. And when it was Anna’s son’s birthday, she secretly went to see him, and after she saw Seryozha, she began to blame Vronsky for being separated from him, she began to reproach him that Vronsky had lost interest in her and no longer loved her. Vronsky made every effort to explain to the irritated woman that this was not so.

The family life of Kitty and Lensky was not what they imagined it to be. The newlyweds took a long time to get used to each other. They fought often. But only when Lensky was sad, during the death of his brother, did the man realize how close Kitty was to him. The girl supported her husband very much and told him about her pregnancy. Lensky greatly valued Kitty, her care and her closeness. And on this basis he was very jealous of his wife, afraid of losing this closeness.

Anna, according to Dolly, her brother's wife, is behaving insincerely. She entertains guests, takes care of her daughter, but all this is not the same as it was before Vronsky appeared. Anna blames him for all her misfortunes, and Vronsky still loves her. Anna is trying to replace everything that he gave up for Anna, but the quarrels continue.

Karenin does not give Anna a divorce due to the fact that he came under the influence of Princess Myagkaya. And against the backdrop of all the events, Anna begins to be jealous of Vronsky for everything that is possible. She often has an incomprehensible dream, as if a man was standing over her and muttering something incomprehensible. Some time later, after another quarrel, Vronsky goes to his mother, which Anna did not want. She decides to follow him to the station. There she remembers a man who was run over by a train and throws herself under him. After that, she sees a man above her, who said something incomprehensible, and her life is over. Vronsky went to war in Serbia, wanting to forget everything, and his and Anna’s daughter is taken in by Karenin.

Levin is tormented by terrible thoughts about death, he wants to commit suicide, but in time he understands all the goodness of life, thanks to the Gospel. And after that, he lives, receiving joy from life, from Kitty and from his son.