![]() ![]() It is a sideline of the novel, but "reflects life in its banality," as Basinsky notes. Eventually he decided not to begin with a winning ‘novel’ opening, but rather, with an ordinary scene in the Oblonsky family. In one of the multiple drafts of Karenina' Tolstoy also started with a description of a high-society evening and a rumor of one lady's adultery. If Pushkin's fragment begins "The guests are arriving at the cottage", Tolstoy's novel introduces the reader with a short phrase - "Everything was mixed up in the Oblonsky house." Tolstoy rapidly managed to come up with the outline of an entire novel. Tolstoy was thrilled that Pushkin "gets straight to the point," immediately bringing the reader into the thick of things, and so he decided to experiment with a similar form. "She is terribly fickle," the crowd whispered of her, in reference to her adultery. It describes the beginning of a high-society opera evening when suddenly one fine lady named Volskaya shows up, attracting everyone's attention. He read and reread it, and was especially inspired by the unfinished fragment: "The guests are arriving at the cottage". In 1873, Tolstoy accidentally came across a volume of Pushkin's Tales of Belkin. ![]() But finally this creative crisis revealed deep insights, and without expecting it Tolstoy began work on "a novel about private life in the modern era." ![]() However, he failed to create any natural characters - he just couldn't put his finger on the essence of this distant historical era. ![]() Vasily Lanovoy as Vronsky and Tatyana Samoilova as KareninaĪfter the great success of his novel, War and Peace, (1867), which is about Russia’s war against Napoleonic France, Tolstoy decided to dive deeper into history and write a novel about Peter the Great. ![]()
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