Анна Каренина (илл. А. Самохвалова)

"Anna Karenina" - luchshiĭ roman o zhenshchine, napisannyĭ v XIX veke. Zamysel "romana iz sovremennoĭ zhizni" voznik u L. N. Tolstogo eshche v 1870 godu. "Vchera vecherom on mne skazal, - otmetila Sofʹi͡a Andreevna Tolstai͡a v svoem dnevnike 24 fevrali͡a 1870 goda, - chto emu predstavilsi͡a tip zhenshchiny, zamuzhneĭ, iz vysshego obshchestva, no poteri͡avsheĭ sebi͡a". Pervye glavy "Anny Kareninoĭ" uvideli svet v 1875 godu v zhurnale "Russkiĭ vestnik": Tolstoĭ reshilsi͡a predʺi͡avitʹ ikh na sud publiki eshche do okonchanii͡a rukopisi v t͡selom. Publikat͡sii͡a romana prodolzhalasʹ tri goda. Uspekh prevzoshel vse ozhidanii͡a. Kak pisala odna iz sovremennit͡s Tolstogo, "vsi͡akai͡a glava „Anny Kareninoĭ" podymala vse obshchestvo na dyby, i ne bylo kont͡sa tolkam, vostorgam, i peresudam, i sporam, kak budto delo shlo o voprose, kazhdomu lichno blizkom". Po slovam F. M. Dostoevskogo, "Anna Karenina" porazila chitateleĭ "ne tolʹko vsednevnostʹi͡u soderzhanii͡a, no i ogromnoĭ psikhologicheskoĭ razrabotkoĭ dushi chelovecheskoĭ, strashnoĭ glubinoĭ i siloĭ".Roman publikuetsi͡a v soprovozhdenii illi͡ustrat͡siĭ vydai͡ushchegosi͡a russkogo khudozhnika KhKh veka Aleksandra Samokhvalova; v izdanie vkli͡uchena statʹi͡a professora SPbGU Andrei͡a Stepanova.

"Anna Karenina" is the best novel about a woman written in the XIX century. The idea of "a novel from modern life" originated with Leo Tolstoy back in 1870. "Last night he told me," Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya noted in her diary on February 24, 1870, "that he had imagined a type of woman, married, from high society, but who had lost herself." The first chapters of Anna Karenina were published in 1875 in the Russian Bulletin magazine: Tolstoy decided to present them to the public before the end of the manuscript as a whole. The publication of the novel lasted three years. The success exceeded all expectations. As one of Tolstoy's contemporaries wrote, "every chapter of Anna Karenina raised the whole society on its hind legs, and there was no end to rumors, raptures, and gossip, and disputes, as if it was about a question that was personally close to everyone." According to F. M. Dostoevsky, "Anna Karenina" struck readers "not only with its daily content, but also with a huge psychological development of the human soul, terrible depth and strength."The novel is published accompanied by illustrations by the outstanding Russian artist of the twentieth century Alexander Samokhvalov; the publication includes an article by Professor of St. Petersburg State University Andrey Stepanov.