Sophia Tolstaya
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Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya, sometimes anglicised as Sofia Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstoy and Sonya Tolstoy, was a Russian diarist, and the wife of writer Count Leo Tolstoy.
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Sophia Tolstaya in 1862
Sophia Tolstaya and daughter Alexandra Tolstaya
Family of Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, 1887
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Often considered to be among the greatest works of world literature, Tolstoy himself called it his fi
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…publication of The Cossacks. On the eve of their wedding, Tolstoy gave Sophia his diaries that detailed his sexual relations with female servants. (In Anna Karenina, 34-year-old Konstantin Levin, a semi-autobiographical character, behaves similarly, asking his 19-year-old fiancée Kitty to read his diaries and learn…
Cover page of the first volume of Anna Karenina, Moscow, 1878
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Greta Garbo in a publicity still for Anna Karenina, MGM's influential 1935 production of Tolstoy's novel.
Portrait of a Young Woman (or so called "Anna Karenina") by Aleksei Mikhailovich Kolesov, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw