The author of the novel “Anna Karenina” is the people's educator, psychologist, classic novelist, philosopher and Russian writer L. N. Tolstoy. The beginning of his literary activity dates back to 1852. It was then that his autobiographical story “Childhood” was published. This was the first part of a trilogy. Somewhat later, the works “Adolescence” and “Youth” appeared.

Another of the most famous works of L. N. Tolstoy is the epic novel “War and Peace”. The reason for writing the work was the Sevastopol and Caucasian events. The novel describes a military campaign and family chronicles unfolding against its background. This work, the main character of which the author considers the people, conveys to the reader the “people's thought.”

L.N. Tolstoy reflected the problems of married life in his next work - the novel Anna Karenina.

The significance of Tolstoy's work

The works of the outstanding Russian writer significantly influenced world literature. Tolstoy's authority during his lifetime was truly irrefutable. After the death of the classic, his popularity grew even more. There is hardly a person who will remain indifferent if he comes across “Anna Karenina” - a novel that tells not only about the fate of a woman. The work vividly describes the history of the country. It also reflects the morality that the life of the very bottom adheres to. The reader is shown the splendor of salons and the poverty of the village. Against the backdrop of this ambiguous Russian life, an extraordinary and bright personality is described, striving for happiness.

The image of a woman in literary works

Representatives of the fair half of humanity often became the heroes of the works of the classics of the past. There are many examples of this. This is Ekaterina from “The Thunderstorm” and Larisa from “Dowry” by the writer Ostrovsky. The image of Nina from Chekhov’s “The Seagull” is vivid. All these women, in the struggle for their happiness, oppose public opinion.

L.N. touched on the same topic in his brilliant work. Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is the image of a special woman. A distinctive feature of the heroine is her belonging to the highest level of society. She seems to have everything. Anna is beautiful, rich and educated. They admire her, her advice is taken into account. However, she is deprived of happiness in her married life and experiences loneliness in her family. Probably, the fate of this woman would have turned out differently if love had reigned in her house.

The main character of the novel

In order to understand why Anna Karenina throws herself under a train at the end of the work, you need to carefully read the work of the great writer. Only understanding the image of this heroine will allow us to draw certain conclusions.
At the beginning of the story, Anna Karenina appears to the reader as an attractive young woman belonging to high society. L. N. Tolstoy describes his heroine as friendly, cheerful and pleasant to talk to. Anna Karenina is an exemplary wife and mother. Most of all she loves her little son. As for the husband, outwardly their relationship is simply exemplary. However, upon closer examination, artificiality and falsehood are noticeable in them. A woman is connected with her husband not by love, but by respect.

Meeting with Vronsky

With her unloved husband, Anna lived in luxury and prosperity. They had a son, Serezhenka. It seems like life is good. However, everything changes radically with a meeting with Vronsky. From this moment on, the image of Anna Karenina undergoes radical changes. The heroine's thirst for love and life awakens.

The emerging new feeling inexorably pulls her towards Vronsky. His strength is such that Anna is simply not able to resist. Anna Karenina appears to the reader as honest, sincere and open. gives an understanding that she is simply not able to live in a false and difficult relationship with her husband. As a result, Anna gives in to the passionate feeling that arises.

Parting

The image of Anna Karenina is contradictory. Confirmation of this lies in her life outside of marriage. According to the heroine, happiness can only be possible when the laws are strictly followed. She tried to start a new life. In this case, the basis was the misfortune of people close to her. Anna feels like a criminal. At the same time, generosity emanates from Karenin. He is ready to forgive his wife everything and save the marriage. However, this high morality of her husband only evokes hatred in Anna.

Through the mouth of his wife, the author compares Karenin to an evil and soulless machine. He checks all his feelings against the norms of the law, which are established by the church and the state. Undoubtedly, he suffers from the fact that his wife cheated on him. However, he does it in a unique way. He just wants to shake off the “dirt” with which Anna “spattered” him and calmly continue his work. The basis of his feelings is not heartfelt experiences, but a cold mind. Karenin's rationality allows him to find a path of cruel punishment for Anna. He separates her from her son. The heroine is faced with a choice. And she goes to Vronsky. However, this path turned out to be disastrous for her. He led her to the abyss, and this can explain the fact that Anna Karenina threw herself under a train.

The second main character of the work “Anna Karenina”

Alexey Vronsky is a brilliant representative of the highest circles of Russia of the period described in the novel. He is handsome, rich and well connected. Adjutant Vronsky is kind and sweet by nature. He is smart and educated. The lifestyle of the novel's protagonist is typical of a young aristocrat of that time. He serves in the guards regiment. His expenses per year amount to 45,000 rubles.

Vronsky, who shares the habits and views of the aristocratic environment, is loved by his comrades. After meeting Anna, the young man reconsiders his life. He understands that he is obliged to change her usual way of life. Vronsky sacrifices freedom and ambition. He resigns and, having parted with his usual secular environment, is looking for new paths in life. The restructuring of his worldview did not allow him to gain satisfaction and peace of mind.

Life with Vronsky

Why does Anna Karenina throw herself under a train at the end of the novel, because fate connected her with a wonderful young man, giving her a sincere and deep feeling? Despite the fact that love has come to the main character, after leaving her husband, the woman cannot find peace.

Neither Vronsky’s deep feeling for her, nor the little daughter who was born, nor entertainment and trips bring her peace. Anna's mental discord is further aggravated by separation from her son. Society doesn't understand her. Her friends turn away from her. Over time, Anna increasingly comes to realize the depth of her misfortune. The character of the heroine changes. She becomes suspicious and irritable. As a sedative, Anna begins to take morphine, which further intensifies the feelings that arise. The woman begins to be jealous of Vronsky without any reason. She feels dependent on his desires and love. However, Anna understands perfectly well that because of her, Vronsky gave up many important things in life. That is why she seeks to replace his entire world with herself. Gradually, it becomes more and more difficult to unravel the tangle of complex relationships, and thoughts of death begin to come to the heroine. And this is in order to stop being guilty, shifting the feeling that has arisen onto Vronsky, while simultaneously freeing herself. All this will serve as an answer to the question: “Why does Anna Karenina throw herself under a train?”

Tragedy

In the image of the main character of his novel, Tolstoy showed a spontaneous and integral woman who lives by feeling. However, it would be wrong to explain the entire tragedy of fate and situation only by her nature. It is located much deeper, because it was the social environment that became the reason that Anna Karenina felt the alienation of society.

The characterization of the image of the main character indicates that she is only concerned about personal problems - marriage, love and family. The situation that developed in her life after leaving her husband did not suggest a decent way out of the situation. Why does Anna Karenina throw herself under a train? Her desperate step can be explained by the unbearable life that arose due to the rejection of her action by society.

Origins of the tragedy

The difficult fate of women is described in many literary works. She did not escape Pushkin's Tatiana and Turgenev's Elena, Nekrasov's Decembrists and Ostrovsky's heroines. What they have in common with Anna Karenina is the naturalness and sincerity of actions and feelings, purity of thoughts, as well as the deep tragedy of fate. Tolstoy showed the experiences of his heroine to readers most deeply, completely and psychologically subtly.

Anna’s tragedy began not even when she, a married woman, posed a real challenge to society. Dissatisfaction with her fate arose even during the period when she, still a very young girl, was married off to a tsarist official. Anna sincerely tried to create a happy family. However, she failed. Then she began to justify her life with her unloved husband by love for her son. And this is already a tragedy. Being a lively and bright person, Anna for the first time realized what true love is. And it is not surprising that the woman tried to break free from the world that disgusted her. However, in doing so she lost her son.

The heroine's mental anguish

Anna did not want to hide her new life from others. Society was simply shocked. A real wall of alienation has grown around Karenina. Even those who had done much worse in their lives began to condemn her. And Anna could not come to terms with this rejection.

Yes, high society showed its hypocrisy. However, the woman had to realize that she was not in a vacuum. Living in a society, you have to reckon with its laws and orders.

Tolstoy is a wise psychologist. He describes the mental anguish of the heroine of his novel simply amazing. Does the author condemn this woman? No. He suffers and loves with her.

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What are your years?

What kind of literary heroes do you imagine? Adults who have experienced a lot, they resolve complex moral issues, change their own and others’ destinies. Have you ever tried to find out how old these people are? It turns out that many of them are quite young by modern standards.

"Anna Karenina". Anna - 25–26 years old

The exact age of Anna Karenina is not mentioned in the novel, but some conclusions can be drawn from quotes from the characters themselves. So, at the time of the beginning of her affair with Vronsky, Anna had been married for eight years:

“Alexey Alexandrovich smiled coldly with his lips alone, wanting to show her and himself the firmness of his conviction; but this ardent defense, although it did not shake him, poisoned his wound. He spoke with great animation.
- It is very difficult to make mistakes when the wife herself announces this to her husband. Announces that eight years of life and a son are all a mistake and that she wants to live again,” he said angrily, sniffling.
“Anna and vice - I can’t connect, I can’t believe it.”

Lev Tolstoy. "Anna Karenina"

We meet the second remark, which brings us closer to the solution to Karenina’s age, in the heroine’s conversation with her brother Stiva:

“You cannot see your situation like I do. Let me tell you my opinion frankly. - Again he smiled cautiously with his almond smile. - I'll start from the beginning: you married a man who is twenty years older than you. You married without love or without knowing love. It was a mistake, let's say.
- Terrible mistake! - said Anna.”

Lev Tolstoy. "Anna Karenina"

"Captain's daughter" . Petr Grinev - 17 years old

The terrible events of the Pugachev uprising, a duel with the scoundrel Shvabrin and a love that will last a lifetime - all this the hero of the story “The Captain's Daughter” experienced at a tender age by modern standards. However, even Pushkin’s contemporaries were not at all surprised by the youth of Petrusha Grinev, and the events of the story, we recall, take place half a century before the author’s birth.

“I lived as a teenager, chasing pigeons and playing leapfrog with the yard boys. Meanwhile, I was sixteen years old. Then my fate changed.
One autumn, my mother was making honey jam in the living room, and I, licking my lips, looked at the seething foam. Father at the window was reading the Court Calendar, which he receives every year. This book always had a strong influence on him: he never re-read it without special participation, and reading this always produced in him an amazing excitement of bile. Mother, who knew by heart all his habits and customs, always tried to shove the unfortunate book as far away as possible, and thus the Court Calendar did not catch his eye sometimes for entire months. But when he found it by chance, he would not let it out of his hands for hours at a time. So, the priest read the Court Calendar, occasionally shrugging his shoulders and repeating in a low voice: “Lieutenant General!.. He was a sergeant in my company!.. He was a holder of both Russian orders!.. How long ago have we...” Finally, the priest threw the calendar on the sofa and plunged into reverie, which did not bode well.
Suddenly he turned to his mother: “Avdotya Vasilyevna, how old is Petrusha?”
“Yes, now I’m seventeen years old,” answered my mother. - Petrusha was born in the same year that Aunt Nastasya Garasimovna frowned, and when else...
“Okay,” interrupted the priest, “it’s time for him to go into service.” It’s enough for him to run around the maidens and climb dovecotes.”

Alexander Pushkin. "Captain's daughter"

"Eugene Onegin" . Onegin and the general, Tatiana's husband

Thanks to time indications generously scattered throughout the novel “Eugene Onegin,” literary critic Yuri Lotman calculated the exact year of birth of the title character. He also drew attention to another interesting fact: Tatiana’s husband, an “important general” whose name we don’t even know, turns out to be not an old man at all.

“Contrary to popular belief, still N.O. Lerner (essay “Tatyana’s Husband” in the book: “Stories about Pushkin”, L., 1929, pp. 213–216) showed that Tatiana’s husband could well have been an old man. Griboedov wrote to Begichev in 1816: “...Nowadays, most of the generals are those whose chins are not pubescent” (A.S. Griboyedov. Complete collection of works, vol. III. Pg., 1917, p. 122). Onegin, who was born in 1795 or so, could have been less than thirty years old in the spring of 1825. Prince N is his relative and friend! - with whom Onegin is on first name terms, he could be five years older.”

"Woe from Wit". Sofia - 17 years old

In the play "Woe from Wit" Sophia appears as an adult girl, seventeen years old is the age of marriage, but we know that they met Chatsky earlier, moreover, they were in love with each other. And again, Yuri Lotman suggests that at the beginning of the story left behind the scenes, Sophia could not have been more than fourteen.

“...Chatsky was absent for three years, therefore, fell in love with her [Sophia] when she was 14 years old, and perhaps earlier, since the text shows that before his resignation and departure abroad, he served in the army for some time and for a certain period lived in St. Petersburg (“Tatyana Yuryevna told something, / Returning from St. Petersburg, / With the ministers about your connection...” - III, 3). Consequently, Sophia was 12–14 years old when the time came for her and Chatsky
Those feelings, in both of us the movements of those hearts,
Which have never cooled in me,
No entertainment, no change of place.
I breathed and lived by them, I was constantly busy!”

Yuri Lotman. "Roman A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". A comment"

"Poor Lisa". Lisa - 17 years old

Another quite “adult” heroine, about whose youth the author nevertheless tells the reader. Lisa fell in love with Erast at the age of seventeen, but already at fifteen the poor thing was left an orphan with a sick mother in her arms and was forced to forget childhood fun.

“Only Lisa, who remained after her father for fifteen years, - only Lisa, not sparing her tender youth, not sparing her rare beauty, worked day and night - weaving canvases, knitting stockings, picking flowers in the spring, and taking berries in the summer - and selling them in Moscow. The sensitive, kind old woman, seeing her daughter’s tirelessness, often pressed her to her weakly beating heart, called her divine mercy, nurse, the joy of her old age, and prayed to God to reward her for all that she does for her mother.”

Nikolai Karamzin. "Poor Lisa"

"War and Peace" . Natasha Rostova - 13 years old at the beginning of the novel; at the time of the death of Prince Andrei - 20 years

The novel begins in 1805; it is reported that Natasha was only thirteen years old at that time, but she had already managed to force Boris to swear eternal love for her, and he subsequently did not hesitate to give up this oath.

The years passed, and by the time the Napoleonic army appeared in Moscow, the heroine was already twenty. She managed to survive a number of disappointments and betrayals, and also suffered the death of Prince Andrei.

“The guest’s daughter was already straightening her dress, looking questioningly at her mother, when suddenly from the next room several men’s and women’s feet were heard running to the door, the crash of a chair being snagged and knocked over, and a thirteen-year-old girl ran into the room, wrapping her short muslin skirt around something, and stopped. in the middle of the room. It was obvious that she accidentally, with an uncalculated run, ran so far. At the same moment a student with a crimson collar, a guards officer, a fifteen-year-old girl and a fat, ruddy boy in a children's jacket appeared at the door.
The count jumped up and, swaying, spread his arms wide around the running girl.

When reading the classics at school, we rarely think about how old this or that character was. Recently, a friend of our company from Los Angeles sent a funny letter, here is its content:

• “Marya Gavrilovna from Pushkin’s “The Snowstorm” was no longer young: “She was in her 20th year”;

• Juliet's mother was 28 years old at the time of the events described in the play;
• “Balzac age” - 30 years;

• Ivan Susanin was 32 years old at the time of the feat (he had a 16-year-old daughter of marriageable age);

• The old pawnbroker from Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment was 42 years old;

• At the time of her death, Anna Karenina was 28 years old, Vronsky was 23 years old, Anna Karenina’s old husband was 48 years old (at the beginning of the events described in the novel, everyone was 2 years younger);
• The old man Cardinal Richelieu was 42 years old at the time of the siege of the fortress of La Rochelle described in The Three Musketeers;
• From the notes of 16-year-old Pushkin: “An old man about 30 years old entered the room” (it was Karamzin);
• From Tynyanov: “Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was older than all those gathered. He was thirty-four years old - the age of extinction”;
• Pushkin wrote the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” at the age of 19;
• The brilliant Evariste Galois made a great mathematical discovery at the age of 19 - the “Galois group” (at the age of 20 he was killed in a duel for political reasons). Galois was the youngest of the greats and the greatest of the young."

Of course, this letter made us smile, but it also made us think. Would anyone now agree that 34 years is the age of extinction, and the “old woman pawnbroker” and “old man Richelieu” at 42 sound somehow insulting?

Yes, “at 40, life is just beginning,” as we were told in the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears.”

In fact, we want to stay young as long as possible, we even added a few years to “Balzac’s age” and believe that it is 40 years. But in fact, the expression, which became a classic, occurred after the publication of the novel “A Woman of Thirty” by the French writer Honore de Balzac.

What happened over time? Were our ancestors in a hurry to live, or are we stuck in our development, hoping that tomorrow will come someday and then we will “live for real”? Is it the wrong time? Or are we not the same? Something to think about, right?

In the meantime, we present our answer to the classics. For us, really, at 40, everything is just beginning!

I do not even know where to start. I’ll try to systematize the chaos that’s going on in my head after watching the “brave film adaptation.”

Plot. I understand that it is difficult to contain everything that L.N. wrote about within a two-hour film. Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, but this is not a reason to turn a powerful Russian novel into a comic book. It seems that everything is in place - the events are the same, the key phrases from the book, and the fictional characters are not observed, but there is no integrity.

Form. The action takes place in theatrical settings, at times on the stage, the mise-en-scène is well constructed - the handwriting of playwright Tom Stoppard, who wrote the script for the film, can be discerned in them. Transitions between scenes are kept to a minimum. Remember the episode from “Love and Doves”, when Mikhailov’s hero leaves the Derensky hut, opens the door and jumps into the sea? In Anna Karenina the same technique is constantly used.

Characters of the heroes, their age and external conformity. First, let's clarify the age of the main characters. The exact age of neither Vronsky, nor Anna, nor Karenin is unknown. If we think logically: Anna got married at 17-18 years old, her son Seryozha is 8 years old, then she is 26-28 years old. I definitely saw somewhere in the book that Vronsky was a little younger than her, I thought I had left a bookmark on this fragment, but I never found it. Wikipedia has a link to unpublished fragments of the novel: “Vronsky was endowed with rare qualities: modesty, courtesy, calmness and dignity. According to family legend, Vronsky wore a silver earring in his left ear, at the age of 25 he had a beard and began to go bald.” And in the novel there is such a character - Serpukhovskoy, it is said about him that he is a general and Vronsky was the same age as him. Would you like to know at what age at that time one could become a general? Really at 25 years old? I found a lot of information about Karenin on the Internet, that he is 44 years old, I don’t know where it came from. In a conversation with Anna, Stiva says that Karenin is 20 years older than her. Thus, Anna is 26-28, Vronsky is 25-26, Karenin is 46-48. With age we more or less figured it out.
Now let's look at the similarities.

Anna Arkadyevna Karenina

Everyone knows that the prototype of Anna Karenina is the daughter of A.S. Pushkina Maria Hartung.
“Anna... in a black, low-cut velvet dress, revealing her full shoulders and chest, chiseled like old ivory, and rounded arms with a thin tiny hand. The whole dress was trimmed with Venetian guipure. On her head, in her black hair, "of her own, without any admixture, there was a small garland of pansies and the same on a black ribbon belt between white lace. Her hairstyle was invisible... On her chiseled strong neck there was a string of pearls."
It’s as if Lev Nikolayevich painted a verbal portrait from this picture, right?

If you think that I posted a still from another movie, you are mistaken. This is an episode from Anna Karenina, symbolizing the suffering of the unfortunate woman. The cigarette apparently hints at deep thoughts.
I understand that external similarity cannot be one hundred percent, but the type, in my opinion, should correspond to the description. The character also failed - with Tolstoy you understand and despise Karenina at the same time. Keira Knightley's Anna turned out to be flat, simplified, and doll-like.

Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky

The prototype of Vronsky was Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Remember the romance "Among the Noisy Ball"? Alexey Konstantinovich wrote this poem to his future wife S.A. Miller-Bakhmetyeva, who left her husband and family for his sake. This story caused a lot of noise in the world.
What do we know about Vronsky? “...was a short, tightly built brunette, with a good-natured, handsome, extremely calm and firm face. In his face and figure, from short-cropped black hair and a freshly shaved chin to a wide, brand new uniform, everything was simple and at the same time elegant. " "Vronsky...was beginning to go bald prematurely."

Now compare it with this cheerful doll. By the way, the actor who played Alexei Vronsky, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is brunette in real life. I don’t understand what the director wanted to say by turning him blond. And how could Kitty and Anna fall in love with this sugary young man?

Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin

The prototype of Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin was Baron Vladimir Mikhailovich von Mengden, a landowner and official, a member of the State Council, a callous man, small in stature and unattractive, married to the beautiful Elizaveta Ivanovna Obolenskaya. Karenin had a St. Petersburg fresh face, a self-confident figure, and a slightly prominent back. When walking, he moved his entire pelvis and blunt legs. A large round hat rested on her ears. He wrapped his cold and bony legs in a fluffy blanket. When he smiled, “unfading white teeth” were revealed. The voice is thin.

In the film, Karenin is played by Jude Law. I have a good attitude towards him as an actor, but, in my opinion, it’s too early for him to play such characters. Karenin in the book is a deep person: outwardly dry and callous, but with a noble and kind soul. In the film, he turned out to be a kind of soft-bodied, boring saint that you can wipe your feet on. It is impossible to understand how a person with such a character could fly up the career ladder.

Konstantin Levin

But most of all I was shocked by Levin. By the way, the surname Levin is usually pronounced incorrectly through “e”, correctly through “yo” (Levin).
Yes, yes, this village fool, Ivanushka, is the nobleman Konstantin Levin. It is known that its prototype is Leo Tolstoy himself.

The story of Levin and Kitty looks very strange, and it is difficult for a person who has never read Anna Karenina to understand what these characters are doing in the film.

Stiva Arkadievich Oblonsky

The only character who matched the description and character was Stiva - dissolute, easy-going and charming. Something between N. Mikhalkov and O. Menshikov.

Entourage. You know, I can accept that the Russian mentality is difficult to understand. I can understand that it is difficult for a foreigner to talk about the Russian soul, the origins of communism, peasants, history, and Russian life. But why the hell does the Karenin’s dacha in Peterhof look like a French garden with trimmed bushes twice the height of a man, why are the Russian interiors of city houses in the French style. In our age of the Internet, it’s enough to press a button and spend half an hour studying the issue.
Look.

This is what a Russian train looks like according to the British. Why it is icy, hardly anyone can explain. The only thing missing to complete the picture is bears.

And this is what the noble estate of Konstantin Levin looks like. By the way, they filmed in Kizhi. I didn’t find any other evidence in the pictures, so take my word for it

Well, for those rare birds who flew to the end of the vast post.
Gag. If you remember, in the novel there is not even a hint of sex scenes; in the film they are present with the comment: “this is love.” And there was a moment when Karenin took out a case with a condom in the hope of fulfilling his marital duty. Apparently, this fragment was supposed to characterize Karenin as a pedant.

I will end here, dear comrades. And you decide for yourself whether you will watch this disgrace or not.

Tatyana Drubich, who played Anna Karenina in Solovyov’s film adaptation of Lev Tolstoy’s novel, speaks about the age of her heroine somehow uncertainly, I would say, evasively. Literally: “Tolstoy does not have a single mention of Anna’s age. Karenin was 44, but with Anna there is complete uncertainty. It is only known that she married late. Karenin married her by some coincidence. It is clear that this the story of mature people..." (From an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda).

It may seem that Drubich, willingly or unwillingly, is trying to justify the choice of director Sergei Solovyov, who saw his Anna in her, the 45-year-old actress. Well, a film adaptation is always an interpretation: each of us has our own Anna, and our Vronsky. In the end, Oleg Yankovsky, who brilliantly and very convincingly played Karenin, looked older than his 44-year-old book character.

And yet, determining the age of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (Drubich argues precisely with this fact) is not so difficult. Indeed, there are no direct references to him in the novel. But there are more than obvious clues. Let's go back to the source. In the fourth part of the novel, Stiva talks with Anna:

“You can’t see your situation like I do. Let me tell you my opinion frankly.” Again he smiled cautiously with his almond smile. “I’ll start from the beginning: you married a man who is twenty years older than you. You married without love or not knowing love. It was a mistake, let's say.
- A terrible mistake! - said Anna."
(L.N. Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Part four)

So, Karenin is forty-four, and Anna is twenty years (plus or minus a year or two - it doesn’t matter) younger than her husband. Thus, she is 25-26 years old. No more! Not 30, not 35, and certainly not 40. What kind of “complete uncertainty” can we talk about? Clarity! Absolute. Another thing is that for the 70s of the 19th century, 26-year-old Anna was considered a completely mature woman, and her husband (remember, he was only 44 years old) was “almost an old man.”

Keywords: novel, Tolstoy, Sergei Solovyov, Anna Karenina