Disgusted with the entire trip, Levin leaves Moscow. Levin goes to see his elder brother Nicholas, who is sickly and lives in depraved conditions. She realizes that her hopes are shot Vronsky never wanted to marry her. The two of them are completely smitten, and Kitty's heart is shattered. The source of this inattention becomes clear when she watched Vronsky waltz with Anna. At a ball the next night, Kitty notices that Vronsky is distracted and inattentive to her. At the urgings of Anna, Vronsky leaves 200 roubles for the guard's widow.Īnna ably convinces Dolly not to leave Oblonsky. Before they leave the station, a railroad guard is run over and killed by a passing train. So is Vronsky, at once, charmed by Anna's spirit and vitality. It turns out that Anna and Vronsky's mother were seatmates in the same compartment, and his mother is quite taken with Anna. When Oblonsky goes to the railway station to meet Anna the next morning, he runs into Vronsky, who is waiting for his mother to get off the same train.

And indeed, when Levin proposes to Kitty, but she rejects him in the hopes that Vronsky will make his proposal soon. At dinner with Oblonsky that night, Levin learns that he has a rival for Kitty's affections: Count Alexis Kirilovich Vronsky. He skates with Kitty and flirts with her boldly, but she sends him mixed signals.

Oblonsky suggests a meeting with Levin later that evening at the park where Kitty ice-skates. Levin is in town to see Oblonsky's sister-in-law, Kitty Shcherbatskaya, for Levin is rather smitten with the eighteen-year-old girl. That same day, Oblonsky runs into his friend Constantine Levin, who has just arrived from his country estate. Petersburg, and moves in the highest circles of Russian Society with the reputation of a charming woman. Anna is married to a distinguished official in St. He is happy that his sister, Anna Karenina, will be coming the next day to visit and smooth things over between himself and Dolly. Tolstoy imbues the simple tale of a love affair with rich portraits of Russian high society, politics, and religion.Īs the book opens, Prince Stephen Oblonsky, known as Stiva, is arguing with his wife, Dolly: he has had an affair with their children's governess, and she is threatening to leave him. Anna Karenina, considered by many critics to be Tolstoy's finest achievement, is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century.

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