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Anna Karenina — Chronicle

Ordered by year where the text states one — taken as written, never inferred. This book has no continuous chronology, so nothing is carried forward: events with no stated year are listed at the end, in chapter order. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.

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573 events · 1 carry a year stated nearby in the text · the rest left undated

1863 (1 events)

1863
Alexey Alexandrovitch decides to preserve the marriage and demands Anna Arkadyevna return to Petersburg.

PART THREE · Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · not later than Tuesday

Karenin Anna

Whatever your conduct may have been, I do not consider myself justified in breaking the ties in which we are bound by a Higher Power. The family cannot be broken up by a whim, a caprice, or even by the sin of one of the partners in the marriage, and our life must go on as it has done in the past. This is essential for me, for you, and for our son. I am fully persuaded that you have repented and do repent of what has called forth the present letter, and that you will cooperate with me in eradicating the cause of our estrangement, and forgetting the past. In the contrary event, you can conjecture what awaits you and your son. All this I hope to discuss more in detail in a personal interview. As the season is drawing to a close, I would beg you to return to Petersburg as quickly as possible, not later than Tuesday.

Undated

PART ONE · Chapter 1
Dolly discovered Stepan Arkadyevitch’s affair with the French governess.

PART ONE · Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Oblonskys’ house]]

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl

PART ONE · Chapter 1
Dolly announced that she could no longer live with Stepan in the same house.

PART ONE · Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Oblonskys’ house]]

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.

PART ONE · Chapter 1
Dolly refused to see Stepan after his inappropriate smile during their confrontation.

PART ONE · Chapter 1 · Since then

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Since then she had refused to see her husband.

PART ONE · Chapter 2
Anna Arkadyevna is scheduled to arrive alone.

PART ONE · Chapter 2 · tomorrow

Stepan Arkadyevitch Anna

Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow

PART ONE · Chapter 2
Darya Alexandrovna announces that she is going away.

PART ONE · Chapter 2

Darya Alexandrovna

Darya Alexandrovna told me to inform you that she is going away.

PART ONE · Chapter 3
Stepan Arkadyevitch enters his wife’s bedroom to address their unresolved marital crisis.

PART ONE · Chapter 3

Stepan Arkadyevitch

with rapid steps walked through the drawing-room, and opened the other door into his wife’s bedroom.

PART ONE · Chapter 4
Darya Alexandrovna declares Stepan Arkadyevitch a stranger and threatens to leave him.

PART ONE · Chapter 4 · at once

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

I am going away at once, and you may live here with your mistress!

PART ONE · Chapter 5
Stepan Arkadyevitch received the presidency of a Moscow government board through Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin.

PART ONE · Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Stepan Arkadyevitch Karenin

This post he had received through his sister Anna’s husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, who held one of the most important positions in the ministry to whose department the Moscow office belonged.

PART ONE · Chapter 5
Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin stopped attending district council meetings after quarreling with its members.

PART ONE · Chapter 5

Levin

I have quarreled with them all, and don’t go to the meetings any more

PART ONE · Chapter 6
Dolly married Oblonsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 6 · In his student days

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

In his student days he had all but been in love with the eldest, Dolly, but she was soon married to Oblonsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 6
Natalia married the diplomat Lvov.

PART ONE · Chapter 6 · soon

Natalia Lvov

But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the world when she married the diplomat Lvov.

PART ONE · Chapter 6
Young Prince Shtcherbatsky drowned in the Baltic.

PART ONE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Baltic]] · when Levin left the university

young Prince Shtcherbatsky

Young Shtcherbatsky went into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin’s relations with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his friendship with Oblonsky, became less intimate.

PART ONE · Chapter 6
Konstantin Levin realized that Kitty was the sister he truly loved.

PART ONE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · when early in the winter of this year

Levin Kitty

But when early in the winter of this year Levin came to Moscow, after a year in the country, and saw the Shtcherbatskys, he realized which of the three sisters he was indeed destined to love.

PART ONE · Chapter 6
Konstantin Levin decided to offer Kitty marriage.

PART ONE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · after spending two months alone in the country

Levin Kitty

And he had now come to Moscow with a firm determination to make an offer, and get married if he were accepted.

PART ONE · Chapter 8
Konstantin Levin resigns from the district council and stops attending its meetings.

PART ONE · Chapter 8

Levin

No, I’m not a member now; I’ve resigned,” answered Levin, “and I no longer attend the meetings.

PART ONE · Chapter 8
Nikolay Levin reappears in Moscow after estranging himself from his brothers.

PART ONE · Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Nikolay Levin

Oh! do you know brother Nikolay’s turned up again?

PART ONE · Chapter 8
Sergey Ivanovitch pays Nikolay Levin’s IOU to Trubin and sends it to him.

PART ONE · Chapter 8

Sergey Ivanovitch Nikolay Levin Trubin

I sent to find out where he is living, and sent him his IOU to Trubin, which I paid.

PART ONE · Chapter 8
Nikolay Levin rejects his brothers’ assistance and asks Sergey Ivanovitch to leave him alone.

PART ONE · Chapter 8

Nikolay Levin Sergey Ivanovitch

I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That’s the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolay Levin.

PART ONE · Chapter 9
Kitty invites Levin to put on skates and skate together, advancing their courtship.

PART ONE · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Zoological Gardens]] · At four o’clock

Levin Kitty

“I should so like to see how you skate. Put on skates, and let us skate together.”

PART ONE · Chapter 9
Levin declares that his stay depends on Kitty, and she abruptly skates away from him.

PART ONE · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Zoological Gardens]]

Levin Kitty

“I don’t know. It depends upon you,” he said, and was immediately horror-stricken at his own words.

PART ONE · Chapter 9
Kitty invites Levin to visit her family that evening before saying goodbye.

PART ONE · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Zoological Gardens]] · this evening

Levin Kitty

She turned her head, and with a smile said: “Good-bye till this evening.”

PART ONE · Chapter 10
Princess Shahovskaya marries Brenteln, fulfilling the marriage prediction.

PART ONE · Chapter 10

Princess Shahovskaya Brenteln

She foretold, for instance, that Princess Shahovskaya would marry Brenteln. No one would believe it, but it came to pass.

PART ONE · Chapter 10
Levin resolves to settle his future with Kitty after Stepan reveals his wife's prediction.

PART ONE · Chapter 10 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Levin Stepan Arkadyevitch Kitty

She says that Kitty is certain to be your wife.” At these words Levin’s face suddenly lighted up with a smile, a smile not far from tears of emotion. “She says that!” cried Levin. “I always said she was exquisite, your wife. There, that’s enough, enough said about it,” he said, getting up from his seat.

PART ONE · Chapter 11
Levin learns that Vronsky is in love with Kitty and is his rival.

PART ONE · Chapter 11 · soon after you’d gone

Levin Stepan Arkadyevitch Vronsky Kitty

Well, he turned up here soon after you’d gone, and as I can see, he’s over head and ears in love with Kitty

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Levin became a serious suitor for Kitty through frequent visits and evident love.

PART ONE · Chapter 12 · the beginning of the winter

Levin Kitty

Levin’s appearance at the beginning of the winter, his frequent visits, and evident love for Kitty, had led to the first serious conversations between Kitty’s parents as to her future

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Levin abruptly departed, ending his immediate pursuit of Kitty.

PART ONE · Chapter 12 · When Levin had abruptly departed

Levin

When Levin had abruptly departed, the princess was delighted, and said to her husband triumphantly: “You see I was right.”

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Count Vronsky became Kitty’s second serious suitor and appeared to intend marriage.

PART ONE · Chapter 12 · When Vronsky appeared on the scene

Vronsky Kitty

When Vronsky appeared on the scene, she was still more delighted, confirmed in her opinion that Kitty was to make not simply a good, but a brilliant match.

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Count Vronsky openly courted Kitty through flirting, dancing, and continual visits.

PART ONE · Chapter 12

Vronsky Kitty

Vronsky openly flirted with Kitty at balls, danced with her, and came continually to the house, consequently there could be no doubt of the seriousness of his intentions.

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Kitty disclosed Vronsky’s conversation about awaiting his mother before undertaking anything important.

PART ONE · Chapter 12 · the week before

Kitty Vronsky Princess Shtcherbatskaya

The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka.

PART ONE · Chapter 12
Princess Shtcherbatskaya realized that Kitty was in love with Count Vronsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 12

Kitty Vronsky Princess Shtcherbatskaya

She saw that her daughter was in love with him

PART ONE · Chapter 13
Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin proposes marriage to Kitty, but she refuses.

PART ONE · Chapter 13 · At half-past seven

Levin Kitty

“I meant to say ... I came for this ... to be my wife!” he brought out, not knowing what he was saying; but feeling that the most terrible thing was said, he stopped short and looked at her.... She was breathing heavily, not looking at him. She was feeling ecstasy. Her soul was flooded with happiness. She had never anticipated that the utterance of love would produce such a powerful effect on her. But it lasted only an instant. She remembered Vronsky. She lifted her clear, truthful eyes, and seeing his desperate face, she answered hastily: “That cannot be ... forgive me.”

PART ONE · Chapter 14
Kitty refuses Levin, ending his hoped-for proposal.

PART ONE · Chapter 14

Kitty Levin

“Thank God, she has refused him,” thought the mother

PART ONE · Chapter 14
Levin realizes that Kitty loves Vronsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 14

Kitty Vronsky Levin

And simply from the look in her eyes, that grew unconsciously brighter, Levin knew that she loved that man

PART ONE · Chapter 14
Levin is no longer a member of the district council.

PART ONE · Chapter 14

Levin

“No, princess, I’m no longer a member of the council,” he said.

PART ONE · Chapter 15
Kitty refused Levin’s offer despite feeling pity for him.

PART ONE · Chapter 15 · At the end of the evening

Kitty Levin

At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity she felt for Levin, she was glad at the thought that she had received an offer.

PART ONE · Chapter 16
Vronsky and Kitty’s secret spiritual bond grows stronger.

PART ONE · Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Shtcherbatskys’]] · that evening

Vronsky Kitty

But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents were saying, he felt on coming away from the Shtcherbatskys’ that the secret spiritual bond which existed between him and Kitty had grown so much stronger that evening that some step must be taken.

PART ONE · Chapter 16
Vronsky courts Kitty without intending marriage.

PART ONE · Chapter 16

Vronsky Kitty

He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage

PART ONE · Chapter 17
Levin apparently proposed to Kitty, according to Stepan Arkadyevitch’s inference.

PART ONE · Chapter 17 · yesterday

Levin Kitty Stepan Arkadyevitch

Do you mean he made your belle-sœur an offer yesterday?” “Maybe,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

PART ONE · Chapter 18
A guard is crushed to death by the moving train.

PART ONE · Chapter 18

the guard

A guard, either drunk or too much muffled up in the bitter frost, had not heard the train moving back, and had been crushed.

PART ONE · Chapter 18
Vronsky gives two hundred roubles to support the dead guard’s widow.

PART ONE · Chapter 18

Vronsky the widow

“You gave my assistant two hundred roubles. Would you kindly explain for whose benefit you intend them?” “For the widow,” said Vronsky, shrugging his shoulders.

PART ONE · Chapter 19
Dolly discovers Stepan Arkadyevitch’s infidelity through a letter to his mistress, her governess.

PART ONE · Chapter 19

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

to get a letter ... his letter to his mistress, my governess.

PART ONE · Chapter 19
Anna reveals that Stepan Arkadyevitch is remorseful and still loves Dolly deeply.

PART ONE · Chapter 19

Anna Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

he’s tortured by two things: that he’s ashamed for the children’s sake, and that, loving you—yes, yes, loving you beyond everything on earth

PART ONE · Chapter 20
Their estrangement remains, but separation is no longer discussed and reconciliation becomes possible.

PART ONE · Chapter 20 · 📍 [[the Oblonskys’]] · that day

Stepan Arkadyevitch Darya Alexandrovna

In the relations of the husband and wife the same estrangement still remained, but there was no talk now of separation, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the possibility of explanation and reconciliation.

PART ONE · Chapter 21
Dolly and Stepan Arkadyevitch reconcile.

PART ONE · Chapter 21 · 📍 [[the Oblonskys’]]

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

From his tone both Kitty and Anna knew that a reconciliation had taken place.

PART ONE · Chapter 22
Anna Arkadyevna deliberately ignores Vronsky and dances with Yegorushka Korsunsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky Yegorushka Korsunsky

At that instant Vronsky came up. “Well, since it’s impossible tonight, let us start,” she said, not noticing Vronsky’s bow, and she hastily put her hand on Korsunsky’s shoulder.

PART ONE · Chapter 22
Vronsky fails to return Kitty’s loving look during their interrupted waltz, deeply wounding her.

PART ONE · Chapter 22

Kitty Vronsky

Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards—for several years after—that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.

PART ONE · Chapter 23
Vronsky asked Anna Karenina for the mazurka before Kitty, thwarting Kitty’s expectation of dancing with him.

PART ONE · Chapter 23

Vronsky Anna Kitty Countess Nordston

“He asked her for the mazurka before me,” said Countess Nordston, knowing Kitty would understand who were “he” and “her.”

PART ONE · Chapter 23
Countess Nordston arranged for Kitty to dance the mazurka with Korsunsky.

PART ONE · Chapter 23

Countess Nordston Korsunsky Kitty

Countess Nordston found Korsunsky, with whom she was to dance the mazurka, and told him to ask Kitty.

PART ONE · Chapter 24
Konstantin Levin’s courtship failed as she chose Vronsky instead.

PART ONE · Chapter 24

Levin Vronsky

“Yes, she was bound to choose him. So it had to be, and I cannot complain of anyone or anything.

PART ONE · Chapter 24
Nikolay Levin recognizes Konstantin Levin and invites him to stay for supper.

PART ONE · Chapter 24 · towards eleven o’clock

Nikolay Levin Levin

“Ah, Kostya!” he exclaimed suddenly, recognizing his brother, and his eyes lit up with joy.

PART ONE · Chapter 24
Nikolay Levin publicly declares Marya Nikolaevna his life partner, equivalent to his wife.

PART ONE · Chapter 24

Nikolay Levin Marya Nikolaevna

“And this woman,” Nikolay Levin interrupted him, pointing to her, “is the partner of my life, Marya Nikolaevna.

PART ONE · Chapter 24
Nikolay Levin had rejected contact with Konstantin Levin and Sergey Ivanovitch.

PART ONE · Chapter 24

Nikolay Levin Levin Sergey Ivanovitch

“I wrote to you and Sergey Ivanovitch both that I don’t know you and don’t want to know you.

PART ONE · Chapter 25
Nikolay Levin begins founding a locksmiths’ association with shared production, profits, and instruments.

PART ONE · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[village of Vozdrem, Kazan government]]

Nikolay Levin

And so we’re founding a locksmiths’ association, where all the production and profit and the chief instruments of production will be in common.

PART ONE · Chapter 25
Nikolay Levin becomes hopelessly drunk, and Marya Nikolaevna helps get him to bed.

PART ONE · Chapter 25 · that night

Nikolay Levin Marya Nikolaevna

Konstantin with the help of Masha persuaded him not to go out anywhere, and got him to bed hopelessly drunk.

PART ONE · Chapter 25
Marya Nikolaevna promises to inform Konstantin Levin if Nikolay Levin needs help.

PART ONE · Chapter 25

Marya Nikolaevna Levin Nikolay Levin

Masha promised to write to Konstantin in case of need, and to persuade Nikolay Levin to go and stay with his brother.

PART ONE · Chapter 26
Konstantin Levin resolves never to forget Nikolay and to be ready to help him.

PART ONE · Chapter 26 · that day

Levin Nikolay

Then remembering his brother Nikolay, he resolved to himself that he would never allow himself to forget him, that he would follow him up, and not lose sight of him, so as to be ready to help when things should go ill with him.

PART ONE · Chapter 26
Konstantin Levin resolves to work harder and live with less luxury.

PART ONE · Chapter 26 · that day

Levin

But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.

PART ONE · Chapter 26
Pava gives birth to a calf.

PART ONE · Chapter 26 · 📍 [[the cowhouse]]

Pava

But there had been an important and joyful event: Pava, his best cow, an expensive beast, bought at a show, had calved.

PART ONE · Chapter 26
Buckwheat is scorched in Levin’s new drying machine, prompting his reprimand of the bailiff.

PART ONE · Chapter 26

Levin Vassily Fedorovitch

The bailiff came in, and said everything, thank God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched.

PART ONE · Chapter 27
Agafea Mihalovna informs Levin that Prohor squandered money drinking and nearly killed his wife by beating her.

PART ONE · Chapter 27

Agafea Mihalovna Levin Prohor

He heard Agafea Mihalovna talking of how Prohor had forgotten his duty to God, and with the money Levin had given him to buy a horse, had been drinking without stopping, and had beaten his wife till he’d half killed her.

PART ONE · Chapter 28
Anna announces that she will leave Moscow that same day instead of staying longer.

PART ONE · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · early next morning

Anna

After the ball, early next morning, Anna Arkadyevna sent her husband a telegram that she was leaving Moscow the same day.

PART ONE · Chapter 28
Anna confesses to Dolly that she is leaving early because of a troubling secret.

PART ONE · Chapter 28 · today

Anna Darya Alexandrovna

Do you know why I’m going today instead of tomorrow? It’s a confession that weighs on me; I want to make it to you

PART ONE · Chapter 28
Anna acknowledges that Vronsky's attention caused Kitty jealousy and stirred emotion in her.

PART ONE · Chapter 28

Anna Kitty Vronsky

She was not merely doubting herself, she felt emotion at the thought of Vronsky, and was going away sooner than she had meant, simply to avoid meeting him.

PART ONE · Chapter 30
Alexei Vronsky declares that he has come to be wherever Anna Karenina is.

PART ONE · Chapter 30

Anna Vronsky

“What am I coming for?” he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. “You know that I have come to be where you are,” he said; “I can’t help it.”

PART ONE · Chapter 31
Vronsky tells Anna the truth about his feelings for her.

PART ONE · Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Bologova]]

Vronsky Anna

He knew only that he had told her the truth, that he had come where she was, that all the happiness of his life, the only meaning in life for him, now lay in seeing and hearing her.

PART ONE · Chapter 31
Alexey Alexandrovitch recognizes Vronsky and formally exchanges greetings with him.

PART ONE · Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Vronsky Anna Karenin

“Count Vronsky,” said Anna. “Ah! We are acquainted, I believe,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch indifferently, giving his hand.

PART ONE · Chapter 31
Alexey Alexandrovitch permits Vronsky to visit their home on Mondays.

PART ONE · Chapter 31

Vronsky Karenin

“I hope I may have the honor of calling on you,” he said. Alexey Alexandrovitch glanced with his weary eyes at Vronsky. “Delighted,” he said coldly. “On Mondays we’re at home.

PART ONE · Chapter 32
Anna reunites with Seryozha at home.

PART ONE · Chapter 32

Anna Seryozha

The first person to meet Anna at home was her son. He dashed down the stairs to her

PART ONE · Chapter 33
Alexey Alexandrovitch passed a new act in the council and received ovations for it.

PART ONE · Chapter 33

Karenin

With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.

PART ONE · Chapter 34
Baroness Shilton planned to sue her husband for a divorce and recovery of her property.

PART ONE · Chapter 34

Baroness Shilton

Now I want to begin a suit against him. What do you advise? Kamerovsky, look after the coffee; it’s boiling over. You see, I’m engrossed with business! I want a lawsuit, because I must have my property.

PART ONE · Chapter 34
Petritsky faced imprisonment threats and possible removal from his regiment because of his scandals.

PART ONE · Chapter 34

Petritsky

His tailor was trying to get him locked up, and another fellow, too, was threatening to get him locked up. The colonel of the regiment had announced that if these scandals did not cease he would have to leave.

PART ONE · Chapter 34
Laura abandoned Fertinghof and pursued Mileev.

PART ONE · Chapter 34

Laura Fertinghof Mileev

Impossible! he cried, at the news that Laura had flung over Fertinghof and had made up to Mileev.

PART ONE · Chapter 34
Petritsky quarreled with Berkoshov and planned to send seconds.

PART ONE · Chapter 34

Petritsky Berkoshov

He’d had a row, too, with Berkoshov, and was going to send seconds to him, but of course it would come to nothing.

PART TWO · Chapter 1
Kitty’s doctors decide she should go abroad and drink the waters for her health.

PART TWO · Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Shtcherbatskys’ house]] · At the end of the winter

Kitty

Finally his decision was pronounced: they were to go abroad, but to put no faith in foreign quacks, and to apply to him in any need.

PART TWO · Chapter 1
Kitty accepts the proposed journey abroad and begins discussing preparations.

PART TWO · Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Shtcherbatskys’ house]]

Kitty

“Really, I’m quite well, mamma. But if you want to go abroad, let’s go!” she said, and trying to appear interested in the proposed tour, she began talking of the preparations for the journey.

PART TWO · Chapter 2
Dolly gives birth to another baby, a little girl.

PART TWO · Chapter 2 · at the end of the winter

Darya Alexandrovna

she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter

PART TWO · Chapter 2
A consultation settles that Kitty and her family will go abroad.

PART TWO · Chapter 2 · that day

Kitty

The only point of interest was that it was settled they should go abroad.

PART TWO · Chapter 2
Dolly and Stepan Arkadyevitch reconcile, but their family harmony begins breaking down again.

PART TWO · Chapter 2

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Her relations with Stepan Arkadyevitch after their reconciliation had become humiliating. The union Anna had cemented turned out to be of no solid character, and family harmony was breaking down again at the same point.

PART TWO · Chapter 2
Vronsky’s dishonorable conduct is identified as the cause of Kitty’s suffering.

PART TWO · Chapter 2

Kitty Vronsky

by the change in her tone both Dolly and the prince knew she was speaking of Vronsky.

PART TWO · Chapter 2
Dolly states that Vronsky has deceived Kitty horribly.

PART TWO · Chapter 2

Kitty Vronsky

And then, he has deceived her so horribly.

PART TWO · Chapter 3
Levin proposed to Kitty, but she refused him.

PART TWO · Chapter 3

Levin Kitty

Kitty’s misery, her inconsolable misery, was due precisely to the fact that Levin had made her an offer and she had refused him

PART TWO · Chapter 3
Vronsky deceived Kitty, causing her to detest him.

PART TWO · Chapter 3

Vronsky Kitty

Vronsky had deceived her, and that she was fully prepared to love Levin and to detest Vronsky.

PART TWO · Chapter 3
Kitty apologized tearfully to Darya Alexandrovna, restoring their mutual understanding.

PART TWO · Chapter 3

Kitty Darya Alexandrovna

Kitty was on her knees before her. “Dolinka, I am so, so wretched!” she whispered penitently.

PART TWO · Chapter 3
Kitty stayed with Darya Alexandrovna and nursed the children through scarlet fever.

PART TWO · Chapter 3

Kitty Darya Alexandrovna

Kitty insisted on having her way, and went to stay at her sister’s and nursed the children all through the scarlatina, for scarlatina it turned out to be.

PART TWO · Chapter 4
Anna abandons serious-minded society and begins frequenting Betsy’s fashionable world.

PART TWO · Chapter 4 · since her return from Moscow

Anna Betsy

But since her visit to Moscow she had done quite the contrary. She avoided her serious-minded friends, and went out into the fashionable world.

PART TWO · Chapter 4
Anna realizes Vronsky’s pursuit delights her and has become the central interest of her life.

PART TWO · Chapter 4 · Soon after her return from Moscow

Anna Vronsky

she realized distinctly from the rush of disappointment that she had been deceiving herself, and that this pursuit was not merely not distasteful to her, but that it made the whole interest of her life.

PART TWO · Chapter 4
Vronsky openly commits himself to pursuing Anna into adultery despite her marriage.

PART TWO · Chapter 4

Vronsky Anna

the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery

PART TWO · Chapter 5
The colonel orders Petritsky and Prince Kedrov to accompany Vronsky in apologizing to Venden.

PART TWO · Chapter 5

Vronsky Petritsky Prince Kedrov Venden

They talked it over, and decided that Petritsky and Kedrov must go with Vronsky to Venden’s to apologize.

PART TWO · Chapter 5
Vronsky mediates the dispute, partially softening Venden’s feelings while leaving the outcome uncertain.

PART TWO · Chapter 5

Vronsky Venden Petritsky Prince Kedrov

And these two influences were not in fact without effect; though the result remained, as Vronsky had described, uncertain.

PART TWO · Chapter 5
The colonel decides not to pursue the complaint further.

PART TWO · Chapter 5 · 📍 [[French theater]]

Vronsky Petritsky Prince Kedrov Venden

The colonel, thinking it all over, made up his mind not to pursue the matter further

PART TWO · Chapter 6
Society publicly identifies Alexey Vronsky as the shadow Anna brought back from Moscow.

PART TWO · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Bolshaia Morskaia]]

Anna Vronsky

“The great change is that she brought back with her the shadow of Alexey Vronsky,” said the ambassador’s wife.

PART TWO · Chapter 6
Guests allude to Tushkevitch’s secret relations with Princess Betsy.

PART TWO · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Bolshaia Morskaia]]

Betsy Tushkevitch

This conversation was maintained, since it rested on allusions to what could not be talked of in that room—that is to say, of the relations of Tushkevitch with their hostess.

PART TWO · Chapter 7
Anna tells Vronsky that Kitty Shtcherbatskaya is very ill.

PART TWO · Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Anna Vronsky Kitty

Oh, I have had a letter from Moscow. They write me that Kitty Shtcherbatskaya’s very ill.

PART TWO · Chapter 7
Anna reveals that love means far more to her than Vronsky understands.

PART TWO · Chapter 7

Anna Vronsky

“Love,” she repeated slowly, in an inner voice, and suddenly, at the very instant she unhooked the lace, she added, “Why I don’t like the word is that it means too much to me, far more than you can understand,”

PART TWO · Chapter 7
Anna refuses to leave with her husband and chooses to remain for supper.

PART TWO · Chapter 7 · after staying half an hour

Anna Karenin

Alexey Alexandrovitch, after staying half an hour, went up to his wife and suggested that they should go home together. But she answered, not looking at him, that she was staying to supper.

PART TWO · Chapter 8
Alexey Alexandrovitch realizes Anna Arkadyevna may love Vronsky.

PART TWO · Chapter 8

Karenin Anna Vronsky

For the first time the question presented itself to him of the possibility of his wife’s loving someone else, and he was horrified at it.

PART TWO · Chapter 8
Alexey Alexandrovitch decides to warn Anna Arkadyevna about the danger he perceives.

PART TWO · Chapter 8 · tonight

Karenin Anna

I am bound to point out the danger I perceive, to warn her, even to use my authority. I ought to speak plainly to her.

PART TWO · Chapter 9
Alexey Alexandrovitch confronts Anna after her animated conversation with Count Vronsky attracted society’s attention.

PART TWO · Chapter 9 · this evening

Anna Karenin Vronsky

Your too animated conversation this evening with Count Vronsky” (he enunciated the name firmly and with deliberate emphasis) “attracted attention.

PART TWO · Chapter 9
Alexey Alexandrovitch warns Anna that their marriage can be severed only by a crime.

PART TWO · Chapter 9

Anna Karenin

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

PART TWO · Chapter 9
Alexey Alexandrovitch declares his love and asks Anna to disclose any basis for his concerns.

PART TWO · Chapter 9

Anna Karenin

I love you. But I am not speaking of myself; the most important persons in this matter are our son and yourself.

PART TWO · Chapter 9
Anna refuses to explain herself and ends the conversation.

PART TWO · Chapter 9

Anna Karenin

I have nothing to say. And besides,” she said hurriedly, with difficulty repressing a smile, “it’s really time to be in bed.”

PART TWO · Chapter 10
Alexey Alexandrovitch and Anna’s inner marital relations completely changed.

PART TWO · Chapter 10

Karenin Anna

Outwardly everything was the same, but their inner relations were completely changed.

PART TWO · Chapter 11
Anna and Alexey Vronsky consummate their illicit liaison.

PART TWO · Chapter 11

Anna Vronsky

that desire had been fulfilled.

PART TWO · Chapter 12
Marya Nikolaevna reports that Nikolay Levin’s health is worsening.

PART TWO · Chapter 12 · In February

Marya Nikolaevna Levin Nikolay Levin

In February he had received a letter from Marya Nikolaevna telling him that his brother Nikolay’s health was getting worse

PART TWO · Chapter 12
Konstantin Levin persuades Nikolay Levin to see a doctor and travel abroad for treatment.

PART TWO · Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · In February

Levin Nikolay Levin

in consequence of this letter Levin went to Moscow to his brother’s and succeeded in persuading him to see a doctor and to go to a watering-place abroad.

PART TWO · Chapter 13
Levin orders the cows driven to the meadow and the calves released into the paddock.

PART TWO · Chapter 13

Levin

Levin gazed admiringly at the cows he knew so intimately to the minutest detail of their condition, and gave orders for them to be driven out into the meadow, and the calves to be let into the paddock.

PART TWO · Chapter 13
Levin redirects two workmen from the granary to sow clover.

PART TWO · Chapter 13

Levin

Indeed, it was such a lovely day that one could not be angry. “Ignat!” he called to the coachman

PART TWO · Chapter 13
Levin orders Vassily to move the seed cart’s horse to the hedge and directs the sowing.

PART TWO · Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Birch Dale]]

Levin

When Vassily came up, Levin told him to lead the horse to the hedge.

PART TWO · Chapter 13
Levin takes the sieve and personally sows a row of clover beside Vassily and Mishka.

PART TWO · Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Birch Dale]]

Levin Vassily Mishka

He watched how Mishka strode along, swinging the huge clods of earth that clung to each foot; and getting off his horse, he took the sieve from Vassily and started sowing himself.

PART TWO · Chapter 13
Levin promises Vassily a bonus for each acre if the clover produces a good crop.

PART TWO · Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Birch Dale]]

Levin Vassily

And if there’s a good crop you shall have half a rouble for every acre.”

PART TWO · Chapter 14
Stepan Arkadyevitch reveals that he is involved with a new woman.

PART TWO · Chapter 14

Stepan Arkadyevitch

“Yes, my boy, there is!”

PART TWO · Chapter 15
Stepan Arkadyevitch reveals Kitty is seriously ill and has been sent abroad because doctors fear she may not live.

PART TWO · Chapter 15

Levin Stepan Arkadyevitch Kitty

She’s never thought of being married, and isn’t thinking of it; but she’s very ill, and the doctors have sent her abroad. They’re positively afraid she may not live.

PART TWO · Chapter 16
Ryabinin completes the purchase of Oblonsky’s forest under the agreed terms.

PART TWO · Chapter 16 · Within an hour

Stepan Arkadyevitch Ryabinin

Within an hour the merchant, stroking his big overcoat neatly down, and hooking up his jacket, with the agreement in his pocket, seated himself in his tightly covered trap, and drove homewards.

PART TWO · Chapter 17
Ryabinin completes the forest purchase, paying Stepan Arkadyevitch three months in advance.

PART TWO · Chapter 17

Stepan Arkadyevitch Ryabinin

The business of the forest was over, the money in his pocket;

PART TWO · Chapter 17
Konstantin Levin reveals that Kitty rejected his proposal.

PART TWO · Chapter 17

Levin Kitty Stepan Arkadyevitch

And I tell you—I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating reminiscence.

PART TWO · Chapter 18
Vronsky refused an important career position to remain in the regiment and see Anna Karenina.

PART TWO · Chapter 18 · of late

Vronsky

She had heard of late that her son had refused a position offered him of great importance to his career, simply in order to remain in the regiment, where he could be constantly seeing Madame Karenina.

PART TWO · Chapter 18
Countess Vronskaya changed her opinion after learning of Vronsky’s desperate passion and career sacrifice.

PART TWO · Chapter 18 · of late

Countess Vronskaya Vronsky

She learned that great personages were displeased with him on this account, and she changed her opinion.

PART TWO · Chapter 18
Vronsky and Anna Karenina’s connection became widely known throughout society.

PART TWO · Chapter 18

Vronsky Anna Karenin

But in spite of that, his love was known to all the town; everyone guessed with more or less confidence at his relations with Madame Karenina.

PART TWO · Chapter 18
Countess Vronskaya sent her elder son to summon Vronsky after learning about his connection.

PART TWO · Chapter 18

Countess Vronskaya Vronsky

She had not seen him since his abrupt departure from Moscow, and she sent her elder son to bid him come to see her.

PART TWO · Chapter 19
Yashvin bets heavily on Alexey Vronsky in the races.

PART TWO · Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Krasnoe Selo]] · On the day of the races at Krasnoe Selo

Yashvin Vronsky

(Yashvin had bet heavily on Vronsky in the races.)

PART TWO · Chapter 21
Vronsky decides they must end their false position and hide somewhere alone with their love.

PART TWO · Chapter 21

Vronsky Anna

Yes, we must put an end to it,” he decided.

PART TWO · Chapter 22
Anna reveals to Vronsky that she is pregnant.

PART TWO · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky

“I’m with child,” she said, softly and deliberately.

PART TWO · Chapter 22
Vronsky concludes their deception must end because Anna’s pregnancy makes concealment impossible.

PART TWO · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky Karenin

“Neither you nor I have looked on our relations as a passing amusement, and now our fate is sealed. It is absolutely necessary to put an end”—he looked round as he spoke—“to the deception in which we are living.”

PART TWO · Chapter 22
Vronsky proposes that Anna leave her husband and live openly with him.

PART TWO · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky

“Leave your husband and make our life one.”

PART TWO · Chapter 22
Anna resists Vronsky’s proposal, insisting that she remains her husband’s wife and sees no clear escape.

PART TWO · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky Karenin

“But how, Alexey, tell me how?” she said in melancholy mockery at the hopelessness of her own position. “Is there any way out of such a position? Am I not the wife of my husband?”

PART TWO · Chapter 23
Anna refuses to disclose the affair or leave Alexey Alexandrovitch, demanding that Vronsky stop discussing it.

PART TWO · Chapter 23

Anna Vronsky

“Never. Leave it to me. I know all the baseness, all the horror of my position; but it’s not so easy to arrange as you think. And leave it to me, and do what I say. Never speak to me of it. Do you promise me?... No, no, promise!...”

PART TWO · Chapter 23
Anna arranges a secret meeting with Vronsky.

PART TWO · Chapter 23 · Tonight, at one o’clock

Anna Vronsky

“When?” he murmured in a whisper, gazing in ecstasy at her. “Tonight, at one o’clock,” she whispered

PART TWO · Chapter 24
Alexander warns Vronsky that his absence and visit to Peterhof may threaten his military service.

PART TWO · Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Peterhof]] · on Monday

Alexander Vronsky Vronsky

I’m worrying myself because the remark has just been made to me that you weren’t here, and that you were seen in Peterhof on Monday.

PART TWO · Chapter 24
Alexander gives Vronsky their mother’s letter before the race.

PART TWO · Chapter 24

Alexander Vronsky Vronsky

I only wanted to give you Mother’s letter. Answer it, and don’t worry about anything just before the race.

PART TWO · Chapter 24
Vronsky draws number seven among the race competitors.

PART TWO · Chapter 24

Vronsky

Vronsky drew the number seven.

PART TWO · Chapter 24
Vronsky mounts Frou-Frou and begins riding toward the race’s starting point.

PART TWO · Chapter 24

Vronsky

Before the mare had time to move, Vronsky stepped with an agile, vigorous movement into the steel-toothed stirrup, and lightly and firmly seated himself on the creaking leather of the saddle.

PART TWO · Chapter 24
Mahotin overtakes Vronsky on the approach to the starting point, intensifying their rivalry.

PART TWO · Chapter 24

Vronsky Mahotin

suddenly Vronsky heard the sound of a horse galloping in the mud behind him, and he was overtaken by Mahotin on his white-legged, lop-eared Gladiator.

PART TWO · Chapter 25
Mahotin overtakes Vronsky after Vronsky falls with Frou-Frou.

PART TWO · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[race course]]

Vronsky Mahotin Frou-Frou

The white legs of a chestnut horse flashed by close to him, and Mahotin passed at a swift gallop.

PART TWO · Chapter 25
Vronsky’s mistake breaks Frou-Frou’s back, leaving her unable to rise.

PART TWO · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[race course]]

Vronsky Frou-Frou

The clumsy movement made by Vronsky had broken her back.

PART TWO · Chapter 25
The injured Frou-Frou is condemned to be shot.

PART TWO · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[race course]]

Vronsky Frou-Frou

The mare had broken her back, and it was decided to shoot her.

PART TWO · Chapter 25
Yashvin leads Vronsky home after the disastrous race.

PART TWO · Chapter 25 · half an hour later

Vronsky Yashvin

Yashvin overtook him with his cap, and led him home, and half an hour later Vronsky had regained his self-possession.

PART TWO · Chapter 26
Lidia Ivanovna withdrew from Anna Arkadyevna, and Alexey Alexandrovitch began avoiding her.

PART TWO · Chapter 26 · 📍 [[Peterhof]] · That year

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Anna Karenin

That year Countess Lidia Ivanovna declined to settle in Peterhof, was not once at Anna Arkadyevna’s, and in conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch hinted at the unsuitability of Anna’s close intimacy with Betsy and Vronsky. Alexey Alexandrovitch sternly cut her short, roundly declaring his wife to be above suspicion, and from that time began to avoid Countess Lidia Ivanovna.

PART TWO · Chapter 26
Alexey Alexandrovitch stopped discussing his suspicions and jealousies with Anna Arkadyevna.

PART TWO · Chapter 26 · From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya’s

Karenin Anna

From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya’s he had never spoken again to Anna of his suspicions and his jealousies

PART TWO · Chapter 26
Alexey Alexandrovitch was found to have an enlarged liver and weakened digestion.

PART TWO · Chapter 26

Karenin

The doctor was extremely dissatisfied with Alexey Alexandrovitch. He found the liver considerably enlarged, and the digestive powers weakened

PART TWO · Chapter 26
Alexey Alexandrovitch stopped staying overnight at the country villa.

PART TWO · Chapter 26 · Since his return from abroad

Karenin Anna

Since his return from abroad Alexey Alexandrovitch had twice been at their country villa. Once he dined there, another time he spent the evening there with a party of friends, but he had not once stayed the night there, as it had been his habit to do in previous years.

PART TWO · Chapter 27
Anna departs with Princess Tverskaya, leaving Alexey Alexandrovitch behind after his visit.

PART TWO · Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Peterhof]]

Anna Betsy Karenin

“I’m going; good-bye!” said Anna, and kissing her son, she went up to Alexey Alexandrovitch and held out her hand to him.

PART TWO · Chapter 28
Alexey Alexandrovitch realizes from Anna’s expression that she is in love with Vronsky.

PART TWO · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[race-course]] · during the race

Karenin Anna Vronsky

He examined that face again, trying not to read what was so plainly written on it, and against his own will, with horror read on it what he did not want to know.

PART TWO · Chapter 28
Kuzovlev falls at the stream during the steeplechase.

PART TWO · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[race-course]] · At that moment

Kuzovlev

The first fall—Kuzovlev’s, at the stream—agitated everyone

PART TWO · Chapter 29
Vronsky survives the accident, while his horse breaks its back.

PART TWO · Chapter 29

Vronsky

the rider was not killed, but the horse had broken its back.

PART TWO · Chapter 29
Anna confesses loving Vronsky and being his mistress to Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART TWO · Chapter 29

Anna Karenin Vronsky

I love him, I am his mistress; I can’t bear you; I’m afraid of you, and I hate you....

PART TWO · Chapter 30
Princess Shtcherbatskaya presented Kitty to the German princess.

PART TWO · Chapter 30 · the day after their arrival

Princess Shtcherbatskaya Kitty

Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished, above everything, to present her daughter to this German princess, and the day after their arrival she duly performed this rite.

PART TWO · Chapter 30
Fürst Shtcherbatsky went away to Carlsbad, leaving Kitty alone with her mother.

PART TWO · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Carlsbad]] · when all this was so firmly established

Fürst Shtcherbatsky Kitty Princess Shtcherbatskaya

When all this was so firmly established, Kitty began to be very much bored, especially as the prince went away to Carlsbad and she was left alone with her mother.

PART TWO · Chapter 30
Kitty learned that Nikolay Levin was Konstantin Levin’s brother and formed an intense dislike of him.

PART TWO · Chapter 30 · Soon after the arrival of the Shtcherbatskys

Nikolay Levin Marya Nikolaevna Kitty Levin

Not so much from what her mother told her, as from the fact that it was Konstantin’s brother, this pair suddenly seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant.

PART TWO · Chapter 31
Varenka intervenes and leads Levin away from his confrontation with the doctor.

PART TWO · Chapter 31 · yesterday

Levin Varenka

She came to the rescue before anyone; she took the man by the arm and led him away.

PART TWO · Chapter 31
Varenka reveals she is not related to Madame Stahl but was raised by her.

PART TWO · Chapter 31

Varenka Madame Stahl

No, she’s not my aunt. I call her mamma, but I am not related to her; I was brought up by her,

PART TWO · Chapter 31
Kitty and Varenka formally become acquainted and begin a friendship.

PART TWO · Chapter 31

Kitty Varenka

Kitty blushed with pleasure, and slowly, without speaking, pressed her new friend’s hand

PART TWO · Chapter 31
Varenka gains the princess’s formal acquaintance after Kitty’s mother approaches her.

PART TWO · Chapter 31

Varenka

she herself approached Varenka and made acquaintance with her.

PART TWO · Chapter 32
Madame Stahl’s family substituted Varenka for her deceased infant, and Madame Stahl later continued raising her.

PART TWO · Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · the same night

Madame Stahl Varenka

the family of Madame Stahl, knowing her sensibility, and fearing the news would kill her, had substituted another child, a baby born the same night and in the same house in Petersburg, the daughter of the chief cook of the Imperial Household. This was Varenka.

PART TWO · Chapter 32
Varenka’s beloved abandoned their relationship and married another girl at his mother’s wish.

PART TWO · Chapter 32 · once

Varenka

I cared for him, and he cared for me; but his mother did not wish it, and he married another girl.

PART TWO · Chapter 32
Kitty reveals her continuing shame over an unrequited love and rejects the man she once loved.

PART TWO · Chapter 32

Kitty Varenka

Of course not; I never said a word, but he knew it. No, no, there are looks, there are ways; I can’t forget it, if I live a hundred years.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Kitty becomes acquainted with Madame Stahl and finds comfort through a newly revealed spiritual world.

PART TWO · Chapter 33

Kitty Madame Stahl

Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a great influence on her, it also comforted her in her mental distress.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Kitty gives herself wholly to a new religious and spiritual life.

PART TWO · Chapter 33

Kitty

Seeing now clearly what was the most important, Kitty was not satisfied with being enthusiastic over it; she at once gave herself up with her whole soul to the new life that was opening to her.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Kitty begins serving sick people, especially Petrov’s family, as a sister of mercy.

PART TWO · Chapter 33 · 📍 [[the springs]]

Kitty Varenka Petrov

She saw that Kitty did not merely imitate Varenka in her conduct, but unconsciously imitated her in her manner of walking, of talking, of blinking her eyes.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Kitty associates with Petrov’s family and becomes proud of helping them.

PART TWO · Chapter 33 · 📍 [[the springs]]

Kitty Petrov

that she avoided society acquaintances and associated with the sick people who were under Varenka’s protection, and especially one poor family, that of a sick painter, Petrov. Kitty was unmistakably proud of playing the part of a sister of mercy in that family.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Anna Pavlovna changes her mind and cancels the planned mountain expedition.

PART TWO · Chapter 33 · that day

Anna Pavlovna

That day Varenka came to dinner and told them that Anna Pavlovna had changed her mind and given up the expedition for the morrow.

PART TWO · Chapter 33
Anna Pavlovna becomes cool toward Kitty and watches her interactions with Petrov.

PART TWO · Chapter 33 · a few days ago

Anna Pavlovna Kitty Petrov

Now, a few days ago, everything was suddenly spoiled. Anna Pavlovna had met Kitty with affected cordiality, and had kept continual watch on her and on her husband.

PART TWO · Chapter 34
Kitty loses her idealized view of Madame Stahl after discovering her apparent vanity and hypocrisy.

PART TWO · Chapter 34

Kitty Madame Stahl Prince Alexander Shtcherbatsky

she felt that the heavenly image of Madame Stahl, which she had carried for a whole month in her heart, had vanished, never to return

PART TWO · Chapter 35
Mihail Alexeyevitch delays leaving because Anna Pavlovna blames Kitty for his reluctance.

PART TWO · Chapter 35

Mihail Alexeyevitch Anna Pavlovna Kitty

only that Mihail Alexeyevitch (that was the artist’s name) had meant to leave earlier, and now he doesn’t want to go away,” said Varenka, smiling. “Well, well!” Kitty urged impatiently, looking darkly at Varenka. “Well, and for some reason Anna Pavlovna told him that he didn’t want to go because you are here.

PART TWO · Chapter 35
Kitty and Varenka reconcile after Kitty angrily accuses her of insincerity.

PART TWO · Chapter 35

Kitty Varenka

“Varenka, forgive me, do forgive me,” whispered Kitty, going up to her. “I don’t remember what I said. I....” “I really didn’t mean to hurt you,” said Varenka, smiling. Peace was made.

PART TWO · Chapter 35
Kitty returns home to Russia cured and serene, leaving her Moscow troubles behind.

PART TWO · Chapter 35 · 📍 [[Russia]]

Kitty

The doctor’s prediction was fulfilled. Kitty returned home to Russia cured. She was not so gay and thoughtless as before, but she was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

PART THREE · Chapter 1
Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev came to stay in the country with Konstantin Levin.

PART THREE · Chapter 1 · towards the end of May

Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev Levin

Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother.

PART THREE · Chapter 2
Agafea Mihalovna fell while carrying pickled mushrooms and sprained her wrist.

PART THREE · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[cellar]] · Early in June

Agafea Mihalovna

Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.

PART THREE · Chapter 2
A second bee swarm escaped, though the farm lads managed to catch it.

PART THREE · Chapter 2

Fomitch

This is the second swarm that has flown away.... Luckily the lads caught them.

PART THREE · Chapter 3
Sergey Ivanovitch defeats Konstantin Levin in their argument over district self-government.

PART THREE · Chapter 3

Sergey Ivanovitch Levin

Konstantin was silent. He felt himself vanquished on all sides

PART THREE · Chapter 4
Konstantin Levin summons mowers and arranges to join them cutting hay the next day.

PART THREE · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Kalinov meadow]] · Towards evening

Levin Tit

Towards evening Konstantin Levin went to his counting house, gave directions as to the work to be done, and sent about the village to summon the mowers for the morrow, to cut the hay in Kalinov meadow, the largest and best of his grass lands.

PART THREE · Chapter 4
Konstantin Levin begins mowing alongside the peasants after Tit gives him a sharpened scythe.

PART THREE · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Kalinov meadow]] · Next morning

Levin Tit

Levin took the scythe, and began trying it. As they finished their rows, the mowers, hot and good-humored, came out into the road one after another, and, laughing a little, greeted the master.

PART THREE · Chapter 4
Konstantin Levin completes his first row and realizes he can continue mowing with the peasants.

PART THREE · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Kalinov meadow]]

Levin Tit

So they mowed the first row. And this long row seemed particularly hard work to Levin; but when the end was reached and Tit, shouldering his scythe, began with deliberate stride returning on the tracks left by his heels in the cut grass, and Levin walked back in the same way over the space he had cut, in spite of the sweat that ran in streams over his face and fell in drops down his nose, and drenched his back as though he had been soaked in water, he felt very happy. What delighted him particularly was that now he knew he would be able to hold out.

PART THREE · Chapter 5
Levin abandons returning home and joins the peasants for dinner and rest.

PART THREE · Chapter 5

Levin

The sop was so good that Levin gave up the idea of going home. He dined with the old man

PART THREE · Chapter 5
The mowers complete cutting the entire big meadow, leaving only the corners.

PART THREE · Chapter 5

Levin Mishka Tit

They had cut the whole of the big meadow, which had, in the years of serf labor, taken thirty scythes two days to mow.

PART THREE · Chapter 5
The mowers decide to cut Mashkin Upland and return to work.

PART THREE · Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Mashkin Upland]] · At the afternoon rest

Levin Tit

At the afternoon rest, when they were sitting down again, and those who smoked had lighted their pipes, the old man told the men that “Mashkin Upland’s to be cut—there’ll be some vodka.”

PART THREE · Chapter 5
Prohor Yermilin leads the mowers into Mashkin Upland, where they begin cutting in formation.

PART THREE · Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Mashkin Upland]] · The sun was already sinking into the trees

Prohor Yermilin Levin Tit

After a brief consultation—whether to take the rows lengthwise or diagonally—Prohor Yermilin, also a renowned mower, a huge, black-haired peasant, went on ahead.

PART THREE · Chapter 6
Levin and the peasants complete mowing the whole meadow.

PART THREE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Mashkin Upland]]

Levin

We mowed the whole meadow!

PART THREE · Chapter 6
Oblonsky reports Dolly’s troubles and asks Levin to visit and help her.

PART THREE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Ergushovo]]

Stepan Arkadyevitch Darya Alexandrovna Levin

I have had a letter from Dolly; she’s at Ergushovo, and everything seems going wrong there. Do ride over and see her, please; help her with advice; you know all about it.

PART THREE · Chapter 6
Levin decides to visit Dolly, suggesting that Sergey Ivanovitch accompany him.

PART THREE · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Ergushovo]]

Levin Sergey Ivanovitch Darya Alexandrovna

That’s capital! I will certainly ride over to her,” said Levin. “Or we’ll go together.

PART THREE · Chapter 6
Sergey Ivanovitch concedes that Levin may be partly right in their previous disagreement.

PART THREE · Chapter 6

Sergey Ivanovitch Levin

I think you are partly right.

PART THREE · Chapter 7
Darya Alexandrovna moved to the country with the children to reduce expenses.

PART THREE · Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Ergushovo]] · Meanwhile

Darya Alexandrovna

Meanwhile Dolly and the children had moved into the country, to cut down expenses as much as possible. She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry

PART THREE · Chapter 7
Marya Philimonovna organized repairs and supplies, making country life comfortable for Darya Alexandrovna.

PART THREE · Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Ergushovo]] · in a week’s time

Marya Philimonovna Darya Alexandrovna

Very soon Marya Philimonovna had established her club, so to say, under the acacias, and there it was, in this club, consisting of the bailiff’s wife, the village elder, and the counting-house clerk, that the difficulties of existence were gradually smoothed away, and in a week’s time everything actually had come round.

PART THREE · Chapter 7
Lily began bathing after a bathing-shed was constructed.

PART THREE · Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Ergushovo]]

Lily

They even rigged up a bathing-shed of straw hurdles. Lily began to bathe

PART THREE · Chapter 8
Darya Alexandrovna took the children to receive the sacrament after nearly a year’s absence.

PART THREE · Chapter 8 · 📍 [[church]] · On the Sunday in St. Peter’s week

Darya Alexandrovna Aliosha Tanya Lily Grisha Nikolinka

On the Sunday in St. Peter’s week Darya Alexandrovna drove to mass for all her children to take the sacrament.

PART THREE · Chapter 8
Tanya secretly gave Grisha her tart, sharing it with him despite his punishment.

PART THREE · Chapter 8 · 📍 [[drawing-room]] · at lunch

Tanya Grisha

On the pretext of wanting to give some dinner to her dolls, she had asked the governess’s permission to take her share of tart to the nursery, and had taken it instead to her brother.

PART THREE · Chapter 8
Darya Alexandrovna forgave Grisha after witnessing Tanya share her tart with him.

PART THREE · Chapter 8 · 📍 [[drawing-room]] · at lunch

Darya Alexandrovna Grisha

But on the way, as she passed the drawing-room, she beheld a scene, filling her heart with such pleasure that the tears came into her eyes, and she forgave the delinquent herself.

PART THREE · Chapter 9
Kitty is going to spend the summer with Darya Alexandrovna.

PART THREE · Chapter 9 · the summer

Kitty Darya Alexandrovna

You know, Kitty’s coming here, and is going to spend the summer with me.

PART THREE · Chapter 9
Darya Alexandrovna’s household arrangements have been successfully settled.

PART THREE · Chapter 9 · now

Darya Alexandrovna Marya Philimonovna

At first things were rather uncomfortable, but now we’ve settled everything capitally—thanks to my old nurse

PART THREE · Chapter 10
Konstantin Dmitrievitch reveals that Katerina Alexandrovna refused his proposal.

PART THREE · Chapter 10

Levin Darya Alexandrovna

“You know I made an offer and that I was refused,” said Levin

PART THREE · Chapter 10
Darya Alexandrovna reveals Katerina Alexandrovna was uncertain between Konstantin Dmitrievitch and Vronsky.

PART THREE · Chapter 10 · At the time when you made Kitty an offer

Darya Alexandrovna Kitty Levin Vronsky

At the time when you made Kitty an offer she was just in a position in which she could not answer. She was in doubt. Doubt between you and Vronsky.

PART THREE · Chapter 10
Konstantin Dmitrievitch decides to avoid visiting when Katerina Alexandrovna is present.

PART THREE · Chapter 10

Levin Kitty

No, I shan’t come. Of course I won’t avoid meeting Katerina Alexandrovna, but as far as I can, I will try to save her the annoyance of my presence.”

PART THREE · Chapter 10
Tanya and Grisha fight violently, shattering Darya Alexandrovna’s pride in her children.

PART THREE · Chapter 10 · While Levin had been outside

Tanya Grisha Darya Alexandrovna

Tanya was pulling Grisha’s hair, while he, with a face hideous with rage, was beating her with his fists wherever he could get at her.

PART THREE · Chapter 11
Levin discovers that a haystack contains only thirty-two loads instead of fifty.

PART THREE · Chapter 11

Levin

There turned out to be only thirty-two loads in the stack.

PART THREE · Chapter 11
The peasants settle the dispute by taking eleven stacks, each counted as fifty loads.

PART THREE · Chapter 11

Levin

After a prolonged dispute the matter was decided by the peasants taking these eleven stacks, reckoning them as fifty loads each.

PART THREE · Chapter 11
Ivan Parmenov is revealed to have married two years earlier.

PART THREE · Chapter 11 · two years last St. Philip’s day

Ivan Parmenov

“Married already?” “Yes, it’s two years last St. Philip’s day.”

PART THREE · Chapter 12
Levin recognizes Kitty as the solution to his life and abandons his plans to marry a peasant girl.

PART THREE · Chapter 12 · At the very instant when this apparition was vanishing

Levin Kitty

There only, in the carriage that had crossed over to the other side of the road, and was rapidly disappearing, there only could he find the solution of the riddle of his life

PART THREE · Chapter 13
Anna reveals her affair with Vronsky to Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART THREE · Chapter 13 · When returning from the races

Anna Karenin Vronsky

When returning from the races Anna had informed him of her relations with Vronsky

PART THREE · Chapter 13
Alexey Alexandrovitch decides to keep Anna, conceal the affair, and require her to end intercourse with Vronsky.

PART THREE · Chapter 13 · When this decision had been finally adopted

Karenin Anna Vronsky

there was only one solution,—to keep her with him, concealing what had happened from the world, and using every measure in his power to break off the intrigue, and still more—though this he did not admit to himself—to punish her. “I must inform her of my conclusion, that thinking over the terrible position in which she has placed her family, all other solutions will be worse for both sides than an external status quo, and that such I agree to retain, on the strict condition of obedience on her part to my wishes, that is to say, cessation of all intercourse with her lover.”

PART THREE · Chapter 15
Anna disclosed the truth of her affair to Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART THREE · Chapter 15

Anna Karenin

On the way home from the races she had told her husband the truth in a moment of excitement

PART THREE · Chapter 15
Anna wrote that she was leaving and taking Seryozha with her.

PART THREE · Chapter 15

Anna Karenin Seryozha

After what has happened, I cannot remain any longer in your house. I am going away, and taking my son with me.

PART THREE · Chapter 15
Anna announced her departure for Moscow and began packing her belongings.

PART THREE · Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that day

Anna

told the governess and the servants that she was going that day to Moscow, and at once set to work to pack up her things.

PART THREE · Chapter 16
Alexey Alexandrovitch’s letter demands Anna’s return and warns of consequences involving her son.

PART THREE · Chapter 16

Anna Karenin

“Preparations shall be made for your arrival here ... I attach particular significance to compliance....”

PART THREE · Chapter 16
Anna cancels the planned departure and decides to visit Betsy instead.

PART THREE · Chapter 16 · 📍 [[summer villa]]

Anna

“We are not going,” she said to Annushka, as she came in.

PART THREE · Chapter 17
Anna secretly writes to Vronsky, insisting they meet at the Vrede garden.

PART THREE · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vrede garden]] · at six o’clock

Anna Vronsky

“It’s essential for me to see you. Come to the Vrede garden. I shall be there at six o’clock.”

PART THREE · Chapter 17
Vronsky informs Betsy that he cannot attend the croquet party.

PART THREE · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Princess Tverskaya’s]]

Vronsky Betsy

“Alexey’s playing us false,” she said in French; “he writes that he can’t come,”

PART THREE · Chapter 17
Betsy writes Vronsky an invitation to come to dinner.

PART THREE · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Princess Tverskaya’s]]

Betsy Vronsky

“I’m telling him to come to dinner. I’ve one lady extra to dinner with me, and no man to take her in.

PART THREE · Chapter 19
Vronsky discovers that his debts amount to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds.

PART THREE · Chapter 19 · the day after the races

Vronsky

Writing out on note paper in his minute hand all that he owed, he added up the amount and found that his debts amounted to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds

PART THREE · Chapter 19
Vronsky decides to borrow money, reduce expenses, and sell his race horses.

PART THREE · Chapter 19

Vronsky

One thing only could and ought to be done, and Vronsky determined upon it without an instant’s hesitation: to borrow money from a money-lender, ten thousand roubles, a proceeding which presented no difficulty, to cut down his expenses generally, and to sell his race horses.

PART THREE · Chapter 19
Vronsky writes to Rolandak about selling his race horses.

PART THREE · Chapter 19

Vronsky Rolandak

Resolving on this, he promptly wrote a note to Rolandak, who had more than once sent to him with offers to buy horses from him.

PART THREE · Chapter 19
Vronsky burns Anna’s three notes after rereading them.

PART THREE · Chapter 19 · the previous day

Vronsky Anna

Then he took out of his notebook three notes of Anna’s, read them again, burned them

PART THREE · Chapter 20
Anna revealed to Vronsky that she was pregnant.

PART THREE · Chapter 20 · Only the day before

Anna Vronsky

Only the day before she had told him that she was with child.

PART THREE · Chapter 20
Vronsky urged Anna to leave her husband.

PART THREE · Chapter 20 · at the first moment when she spoke to him of her position

Vronsky Anna

his heart had prompted him to beg her to leave her husband.

PART THREE · Chapter 20
Vronsky refused an offered post and was subsequently passed over.

PART THREE · Chapter 20 · two years before

Vronsky

he had refused a post that had been offered him, hoping that this refusal would heighten his value; but it turned out that he had been too bold, and he was passed over.

PART THREE · Chapter 20
Serpuhovskoy returned from Central Asia after rising two ranks and receiving a rare order.

PART THREE · Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · a few days before

Serpuhovskoy

Serpuhovskoy, who had left school with him and had been his rival in class, in gymnastics, in their scrapes and their dreams of glory, had come back a few days before from Central Asia, where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rarely bestowed upon generals so young.

PART THREE · Chapter 20
Serpuhovskoy became celebrated as a rising star and anticipated receiving a command.

PART THREE · Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · As soon as he arrived in Petersburg

Serpuhovskoy

As soon as he arrived in Petersburg, people began to talk about him as a newly risen star of the first magnitude.

PART THREE · Chapter 21
Serpuhovskoy distributes three hundred roubles among the soldiers.

PART THREE · Chapter 21

Serpuhovskoy

Please have this divided from me, each man as much as it runs to.” And he hurriedly took notes for three hundred roubles from his pocketbook, blushing a little.

PART THREE · Chapter 21
Serpuhovskoy offers to advance Vronsky if he retires from the regiment.

PART THREE · Chapter 21

Serpuhovskoy Vronsky

give me carte blanche_, retire from the regiment, and I’ll draw you upwards imperceptibly.”

PART THREE · Chapter 21
Princess Tverskaya sends Vronsky a note, after which he leaves the fête for home.

PART THREE · Chapter 21

Betsy Vronsky

A man brought it from Princess Tverskaya.” Vronsky opened the letter, and flushed crimson. “My head’s begun to ache; I’m going home,” he said to Serpuhovskoy.

PART THREE · Chapter 22
Anna reveals everything to Alexey Alexandrovitch and declares she cannot be his wife.

PART THREE · Chapter 22 · yesterday

Anna Karenin

“I did not tell you yesterday,” she began, breathing quickly and painfully, “that coming home with Alexey Alexandrovitch I told him everything ... told him I could not be his wife, that ... and told him everything.”

PART THREE · Chapter 22
Anna refuses Vronsky’s plan to arrange their life because she will not leave her husband and child.

PART THREE · Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Vrede Villa]] · Tomorrow

Anna Vronsky

“But my child!” she shrieked. “You see what he writes! I should have to leave him, and I can’t and won’t do that.”

PART THREE · Chapter 23
Alexey Alexandrovitch triumphs in the Commission; his motion passes and three new commissions are appointed.

PART THREE · Chapter 23 · On Monday

Karenin Stremov

When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest. Stremov, who was also a member of the Commission, and also stung to the quick, began defending himself, and altogether a stormy sitting followed; but Alexey Alexandrovitch triumphed, and his motion was carried, three new commissions were appointed

PART THREE · Chapter 23
Anna Arkadyevna declares she cannot change, and Alexey Alexandrovitch imposes terms for maintaining their marriage.

PART THREE · Chapter 23 · Next morning, Tuesday

Anna Karenin

I’m a guilty woman, I’m a bad woman, but I am the same as I was, as I told you then, and I have come to tell you that I can change nothing.

PART THREE · Chapter 23
Alexey Alexandrovitch demands Anna Arkadyevna stop seeing the other man and preserve appearances.

PART THREE · Chapter 23 · Next morning, Tuesday

Karenin Anna

I want you not to meet that man here, and to conduct yourself so that neither the world nor the servants can reproach you ... not to see him.

PART THREE · Chapter 24
Levin handed over management of his estate to the bailiff.

PART THREE · Chapter 24

Levin

He handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff

PART THREE · Chapter 24
Levin left his estate to visit Sviazhsky in a remote district.

PART THREE · Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Surovsky district]] · next day

Levin Sviazhsky

and set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky

PART THREE · Chapter 27
Madame Sviazhskaya reveals that an expert found the Sviazhskys’ property management incurred a loss.

PART THREE · Chapter 27 · that summer

Levin Madame Sviazhskaya Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky

Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a German expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.

PART THREE · Chapter 28
Levin decides to return home early to implement his new agricultural project.

PART THREE · Chapter 28 · early in the morning

Levin

He had not intended to go away next day, but he now determined to go home early in the morning.

PART THREE · Chapter 28
Levin resolves to revolutionize his entire farming system.

PART THREE · Chapter 28 · half the night

Levin

He had made up his mind to revolutionize his whole system.

PART THREE · Chapter 29
Levin establishes a new agricultural partnership system on his estate.

PART THREE · Chapter 29 · by autumn

Levin

But in spite of all these difficulties he got his way, and by autumn the system was working, or at least so it seemed to him.

PART THREE · Chapter 29
Levin abandons unified management and divides the estate’s agricultural operations into separate lots.

PART THREE · Chapter 29

Levin

At first Levin had thought of giving up the whole farming of the land just as it was to the peasants, the laborers, and the bailiff on new conditions of partnership; but he was very soon convinced that this was impossible, and determined to divide it up.

PART THREE · Chapter 29
Ivan becomes a partner in the cattle-yard with workers drawn mainly from his family.

PART THREE · Chapter 29

Levin Ivan

The simple-hearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in the cattle-yard.

PART THREE · Chapter 29
Ryezunov and six peasant families take waste land under new partnership conditions.

PART THREE · Chapter 29

Levin Fyodor Ryezunov

A distant part of the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow for eight years, was with the help of the clever carpenter, Fyodor Ryezunov, taken by six families of peasants on new conditions of partnership

PART THREE · Chapter 29
Shuraev assumes management of the vegetable gardens under the partnership arrangement.

PART THREE · Chapter 29

Levin Shuraev

and the peasant Shuraev took the management of all the vegetable gardens on the same terms.

PART THREE · Chapter 30
The old servant agrees to join Levin’s cattle partnership by purchasing cattle.

PART THREE · Chapter 30

Levin old servant

An agreement had been made with the old servant

PART THREE · Chapter 31
Nikolay comes to stay with Konstantin Levin for a month or two before leaving for Moscow.

PART THREE · Chapter 31 · now

Nikolay Levin

Well, I’ll spend a month or two with you, and then I’m off to Moscow.

PART THREE · Chapter 31
Nikolay ends his relationship with Marya Nikolaevna and declares he has cast her off.

PART THREE · Chapter 31 · now

Nikolay Marya Nikolaevna

You know I got rid of that woman.

PART THREE · Chapter 31
Nikolay announces plans to enter government service in Moscow through Myakov’s promised position.

PART THREE · Chapter 31 · now

Nikolay Myakov

Do you know, Myakov has promised me a place there, and I’m going into the service.

PART THREE · Chapter 32
Konstantin and Nikolay quarrel over Konstantin’s labor theory, and Nikolay decides to leave.

PART THREE · Chapter 32 · the third day

Levin Nikolay Levin

In spite of all Levin’s efforts to soothe his brother afterwards, Nikolay would listen to nothing he said, declaring that it was better to part

PART THREE · Chapter 32
Nikolay leaves Konstantin, warning him not to remember him with resentment.

PART THREE · Chapter 32 · just at parting

Nikolay Levin

It was only just at parting that Nikolay kissed him, and said, looking with sudden strangeness and seriousness at his brother: “Anyway, don’t remember evil against me, Kostya!”

PART THREE · Chapter 32
Nikolay reveals that he is gravely ill and may not see Konstantin again.

PART THREE · Chapter 32 · just at parting

Nikolay Levin Levin

You see, and you know, that I’m in a bad way, and maybe we shall not see each other again.

PART THREE · Chapter 32
Konstantin sets off on his foreign tour after Nikolay’s departure.

PART THREE · Chapter 32 · Three days after his brother’s departure

Levin

Three days after his brother’s departure, Levin too set off for his foreign tour.

PART FOUR · Chapter 1
Alexey Alexandrovitch became aware that Anna was seeing Vronsky away from home.

PART FOUR · Chapter 1

Karenin Anna Vronsky

Vronsky was never at Alexey Alexandrovitch’s house, but Anna saw him away from home, and her husband was aware of it.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2
Vronsky received a promotion to colonel and left the regimental quarters.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2 · that winter

Vronsky

Vronsky had that winter got his promotion, was now a colonel, had left the regimental quarters, and was living alone.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2
Anna Karenina summoned Vronsky to visit while Alexey Alexandrovitch attended the council.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2 · this evening

Anna Vronsky Karenin

I am ill and unhappy. I cannot come out, but I cannot go on longer without seeing you. Come in this evening. Alexey Alexandrovitch goes to the council at seven and will be there till ten.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2
Vronsky encountered Alexey Alexandrovitch at the entrance, and Alexey Alexandrovitch departed.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Karenins’ entrance]]

Vronsky Karenin

In the very doorway Vronsky almost ran up against Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2
Anna Karenina received Vronsky after waiting anxiously for him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Karenins’ entrance]]

Anna Vronsky

He was still in the hall when he caught the sound of her retreating footsteps.

PART FOUR · Chapter 3
Anna realizes she is pregnant as she feels new life stirring within her.

PART FOUR · Chapter 3

Anna

She was listening to the stirring of the new life within her.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4
Alexey Alexandrovitch announces he will leave for Moscow and initiate divorce through a lawyer.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · tomorrow

Karenin Anna

I have come to tell you that I am going tomorrow to Moscow, and shall not return again to this house, and you will receive notice of what I decide through the lawyer into whose hands I shall intrust the task of getting a divorce.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4
Alexey Alexandrovitch declares he will take Seryozha away from Anna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4

Karenin Anna Seryozha

My son is going to my sister’s,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch, with an effort recalling what he had meant to say about his son.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4
Alexey Alexandrovitch seizes Anna’s portfolio containing her important papers.

PART FOUR · Chapter 4

Karenin Anna

but from that action he saw he had guessed right, and roughly pushing away her hand, he quickly snatched a portfolio in which he knew she used to put her most important papers.

PART FOUR · Chapter 5
Alexey Alexandrovitch reveals his marital deception and seeks a divorce without losing his son.

PART FOUR · Chapter 5

Karenin

I have the misfortune,” Alexey Alexandrovitch began, “to have been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all relations with my wife by legal means—that is, to be divorced, but to do this so that my son may not remain with his mother.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 6
Stremov manipulated extreme measures until public opinion condemned them, defeating Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART FOUR · Chapter 6

Stremov Karenin

These measures, still further exaggerated in opposition to what was Alexey Alexandrovitch’s fundamental idea, were passed by the commission, and then the aim of Stremov’s tactics became apparent. Carried to an extreme, the measures seemed at once to be so absurd that the highest authorities, and public opinion, and intellectual ladies, and the newspapers, all at the same time fell foul of them, expressing their indignation both with the measures and their nominal father, Alexey Alexandrovitch. Stremov drew back, affecting to have blindly followed Karenin, and to be astounded and distressed at what had been done. This meant the defeat of Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART FOUR · Chapter 6
Alexey Alexandrovitch secured permission to investigate the native tribes personally and prepared to depart.

PART FOUR · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[remote provinces]]

Karenin

To the astonishment of the commission, he announced that he should ask permission to go himself to investigate the question on the spot. And having obtained permission, Alexey Alexandrovitch prepared to set off to these remote provinces.

PART FOUR · Chapter 7
Stepan Arkadyevitch gives Masha Tchibisova the promised coral necklace and arranges to take her to supper.

PART FOUR · Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Grand Theater]] · The next day

Stepan Arkadyevitch Masha Tchibisova

gave Masha Tchibisova, a pretty dancing-girl whom he had just taken under his protection, the coral necklace he had promised her the evening before, and behind the scenes in the dim daylight of the theater, managed to kiss her pretty little face, radiant over her present.

PART FOUR · Chapter 7
Levin accepts Stepan Arkadyevitch’s invitation to dinner.

PART FOUR · Chapter 7 · today

Stepan Arkadyevitch Levin

“Of course.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 8
Alexey Alexandrovitch authorized the lawyer to proceed and enclosed Vronsky’s notes to Anna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 8 · that morning

Karenin Anna

Without the slightest hesitation he gave him permission to act as he might judge best. In the letter he enclosed three of Vronsky’s notes to Anna, which were in the portfolio he had taken away.

PART FOUR · Chapter 8
Alexey Alexandrovitch revealed to Stepan Arkadyevitch that he was beginning divorce proceedings against Anna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 8

Karenin Stepan Arkadyevitch Anna

Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife.

PART FOUR · Chapter 8
Alexey Alexandrovitch formalized the deputation’s instructions and sent guidance to Petersburg.

PART FOUR · Chapter 8 · that morning

Karenin

Alexey Alexandrovitch was busily engaged with them for a long while, drew up a program for them from which they were not to depart, and on dismissing them wrote a letter to Petersburg for the guidance of the deputation.

PART FOUR · Chapter 9
Kitty and Levin reunite, revealing renewed mutual romantic hope and affection.

PART FOUR · Chapter 9 · that evening

Kitty Levin

She was delighted, and so confused at her own delight that there was a moment, the moment when he went up to her sister and glanced again at her, when she, and he, and Dolly, who saw it all, thought she would break down and would begin to cry.

PART FOUR · Chapter 11
Kitty and Levin grow emotionally closer through a mysterious private communication.

PART FOUR · Chapter 11

Kitty Levin

She and Levin had a conversation of their own, yet not a conversation, but some sort of mysterious communication, which brought them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of glad terror before the unknown into which they were entering.

PART FOUR · Chapter 11
Turovtsin stayed with Dolly’s children for three weeks, caring for them during scarlet fever.

PART FOUR · Chapter 11 · Last winter

Turovtsin Darya Alexandrovna

all Dolly’s children had scarlet fever, and he happened to come and see her. And only fancy,” she said in a whisper, “he felt so sorry for her that he stayed and began to help her look after the children. Yes, and for three weeks he stopped with them, and looked after the children like a nurse.

PART FOUR · Chapter 12
Vasya Pryatchnikov fought a duel with Kvitsky and killed him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Tver]] · today

Vasya Pryatchnikov Kvitsky

they told me today he fought a duel with Kvitsky at Tver, and has killed him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 12
Anna Arkadyevna confessed her infidelity and said she wanted to begin life again.

PART FOUR · Chapter 12

Anna Karenin

It is extremely difficult to be mistaken when a wife herself informs her husband of the fact—informs him that eight years of her life, and a son, all that’s a mistake, and that she wants to begin life again,

PART FOUR · Chapter 12
Alexey Alexandrovitch resolved to pursue extreme measures, indicating his intention to divorce Anna Arkadyevna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 12

Karenin Anna

“Oh, this is awful, awful! But can it be true that you are resolved on a divorce?” “I am resolved on extreme measures. There is nothing else for me to do.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 13
Kitty and Levin acknowledge their mutual love, and Kitty agrees to tell her parents Levin will come tomorrow morning.

PART FOUR · Chapter 13 · tomorrow morning

Kitty Levin

In their conversation everything had been said; it had been said that she loved him, and that she would tell her father and mother that he would come tomorrow morning.

PART FOUR · Chapter 15
Kitty accepts Levin’s love, and their engagement is settled with her parents’ consent.

PART FOUR · Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Shtcherbatskys’]] · at twelve o’clock

Levin Kitty

Her mother and father had consented without demur, and were happy in her happiness.

PART FOUR · Chapter 16
Kitty and Levin confirm their engagement and agree she will not give him up.

PART FOUR · Chapter 16 · now

Kitty Levin

“Now it is settled.” He added: “Settled that you’ll take me whatever I may be—you won’t give me up? Yes?” “Yes, yes.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 16
Levin reveals his past lack of purity and faith to Kitty through his diary.

PART FOUR · Chapter 16 · the same evening

Kitty Levin

with his sanction gave Kitty his diary, in which there was written the confession that tortured him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 16
Kitty forgives Levin for his past, though she finds the confession terrible.

PART FOUR · Chapter 16

Kitty Levin

“Yes, I forgive you; but it’s terrible!”

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Stremov is appointed to the post Alexey Alexandrovitch had coveted.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17

Stremov

The first telegram was the announcement of Stremov’s appointment to the very post Karenin had coveted.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Anna Arkadyevna successfully gives birth to a daughter.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17 · yesterday

Anna

“A successful confinement yesterday.”

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Anna Arkadyevna develops puerperal fever and is expected to die.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17

Anna

The doctors said that it was puerperal fever, and that it was ninety-nine chances in a hundred it would end in death.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Alexey Alexandrovitch forgives Anna Arkadyevna after witnessing her remorse and illness.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Karenin Anna

But I saw her and forgave her.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Alexey Alexandrovitch forgives Count Vronsky and takes his hand.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Karenin Vronsky

Alexey Alexandrovitch gave him his hand, not attempting to restrain the tears that streamed from his eyes.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Alexey Alexandrovitch abandons revenge and resolves not to abandon Anna Arkadyevna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Karenin Anna

This is my position: you can trample me in the mud, make me the laughing-stock of the world, I will not abandon her, and I will never utter a word of reproach to you,” Alexey Alexandrovitch went on.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17
Anna Arkadyevitch’s condition improves enough for the doctors to say there is hope.

PART FOUR · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · On the third day

Anna

On the third day it was the same thing, and the doctors said there was hope.

PART FOUR · Chapter 18
Vronsky shoots himself in the chest but survives, wounded and bleeding.

PART FOUR · Chapter 18

Vronsky

pulling the revolver to the left side of his chest, and clutching it vigorously with his whole hand, as it were, squeezing it in his fist, he pulled the trigger. He did not hear the sound of the shot, but a violent blow on his chest sent him reeling. He tried to clutch at the edge of the table, dropped the revolver, staggered, and sat down on the ground, looking about him in astonishment. He did not recognize his room, looking up from the ground, at the bent legs of the table, at the wastepaper basket, and the tiger-skin rug. The hurried, creaking steps of his servant coming through the drawing-room brought him to his senses. He made an effort at thought, and was aware that he was on the floor; and seeing blood on the tiger-skin rug and on his arm, he knew he had shot himself.

PART FOUR · Chapter 18
Varya arrives with doctors, puts the wounded Vronsky to bed, and remains to nurse him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 18 · An hour later

Varya Vronsky

An hour later Varya, his brother’s wife, had arrived, and with the assistance of three doctors, whom she had sent for in all directions, and who all appeared at the same moment, she got the wounded man to bed, and remained to nurse him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19
Alexey Alexandrovitch forgives his wife and Alexey Vronsky, replacing resentment with pity.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19

Karenin Anna Vronsky

He forgave his wife and pitied her for her sufferings and her remorse. He forgave Vronsky, and pitied him, especially after reports reached him of his despairing action.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19
Anna’s baby daughter falls ill.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19 · Towards the end of February

Anna

Towards the end of February it happened that Anna’s baby daughter, who had been named Anna too, fell ill.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19
Alexey Alexandrovitch recognizes the instability of his relations with Anna Arkadyevna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19

Karenin Anna

Above all, he felt the instability and unnaturalness of his relations with his wife.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19
Anna Arkadyevna reveals that Alexey Vronsky wants to visit before departing for Tashkend.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19

Anna Vronsky Betsy

Betsy’s been telling me that Count Vronsky wants to come here to say good-bye before his departure for Tashkend.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19
Anna Arkadyevna refuses to receive Alexey Vronsky before his departure.

PART FOUR · Chapter 19

Anna Vronsky

I told her I could not receive him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21
Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky is appointed a Kammerherr.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21

Stepan Arkadyevitch

I’ve been made a Kammerherr; of course, one has to say thank you.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21
Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky comes to Petersburg chiefly to settle Anna’s marital crisis.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Stepan Arkadyevitch Anna

that’s what I’ve come for. At least not solely for that ... I’ve been made a Kammerherr; of course, one has to say thank you. But the chief thing was having to settle this.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21
Anna Karenina declares that she cannot live with her husband and hates him despite his virtues.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21 · Today and this morning and all past days and days to come

Anna

I can’t live with him. Do you understand? the sight of him has a physical effect on me, it makes me beside myself. I can’t, I can’t live with him.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21
Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky proposes divorce as the solution and offers to arrange it.

PART FOUR · Chapter 21

Stepan Arkadyevitch Anna

while divorce would solve the difficulty completely.

PART FOUR · Chapter 22
Alexey Alexandrovitch consents to take the disgrace and give up his son so Anna can obtain a divorce.

PART FOUR · Chapter 22

Karenin Anna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Yes, yes!” he cried in a shrill voice. “I will take the disgrace on myself, I will give up even my son, but ... but wouldn’t it be better to let it alone? Still you may do as you like....

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Vronsky survives a dangerous gunshot wound and begins recovering.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23 · for several days

Vronsky

for several days he had lain between life and death

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Vronsky agrees to Serpuhovskoy’s appointment at Tashkend despite its personal cost.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Tashkend]] · the nearer the time of departure came

Vronsky

Serpuhovskoy had planned his appointment at Tashkend, and Vronsky agreed to the proposition without the slightest hesitation.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Betsy reports that Alexey Alexandrovitch has agreed to a divorce, allowing Vronsky to visit Anna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23 · Next day

Betsy Stepan Arkadyevitch Karenin Vronsky

she had heard through Oblonsky as a positive fact that Alexey Alexandrovitch had agreed to a divorce, and that therefore Vronsky could see Anna.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Anna accepts Vronsky completely, renewing their commitment to remain together.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23

Anna Vronsky

Yes, you have conquered me, and I am yours

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Vronsky declines the Tashkend appointment and retires from the army.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23 · now

Vronsky

he declined it, and observing dissatisfaction in the most exalted quarters at this step, he immediately retired from the army.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23
Anna and Vronsky go abroad without divorcing, while Alexey Alexandrovitch remains with Seryozha.

PART FOUR · Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · A month later

Anna Vronsky Karenin Seryozha

A month later Alexey Alexandrovitch was left alone with his son in his house at Petersburg, while Anna and Vronsky had gone abroad, not having obtained a divorce

PART FIVE · Chapter 1
Princess Shtcherbatskaya consented to hold Levin and Kitty’s wedding before Lent.

PART FIVE · Chapter 1 · before Lent

Princess Shtcherbatskaya Levin Kitty

And therefore, deciding to divide the trousseau into two parts—a larger and smaller trousseau—the princess consented to have the wedding before Lent.

PART FIVE · Chapter 1
Stepan Arkadyevitch arranged Levin’s confession so he could obtain the required marriage certificate.

PART FIVE · Chapter 1 · four days left

Stepan Arkadyevitch Levin

Stepan Arkadyevitch arranged this also, and Levin had to go to confession.

PART FIVE · Chapter 1
Levin confessed his religious doubts and received absolution before his marriage.

PART FIVE · Chapter 1 · the next day

Levin

Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, in the abundance and riches of His loving-kindness, forgives this child....” and, finishing the prayer of absolution, the priest blessed him and dismissed him.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2
Levin asks Kitty to call off their marriage unless she loves him.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2 · On the day of the wedding

Levin Kitty

I’ve come to say that there’s still time. This can all be stopped and set right.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2
Kitty reassures Levin that she loves him, and they become completely reconciled.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2 · On the day of the wedding

Levin Kitty

When the princess came into the room five minutes later, she found them completely reconciled.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2
Darya Alexandrovna and Stepan Arkadyevitch bless Levin with the holy picture before the wedding.

PART FIVE · Chapter 2 · already half-past six

Levin Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Darya Alexandrovna did the same, and immediately was in a hurry to get off

PART FIVE · Chapter 3
Kouzma mistakenly packs Levin’s wedding clothes without the required clean shirt, delaying his departure.

PART FIVE · Chapter 3 · 📍 [[hotel]]

Kouzma Levin

Kouzma had not thought of leaving out a clean shirt, and on receiving instructions to pack up everything and send it round to the Shtcherbatskys’ house, from which the young people were to set out the same evening, he had done so, packing everything but the dress suit.

PART FIVE · Chapter 3
Kouzma delivers the shirt, enabling Levin to leave for the church.

PART FIVE · Chapter 3 · 📍 [[hotel]] · At last

Kouzma Levin

At last the guilty Kouzma flew panting into the room with the shirt.

PART FIVE · Chapter 3
Levin runs from the hotel toward the church after receiving the shirt.

PART FIVE · Chapter 3 · 📍 [[hotel]] · Three minutes later

Levin Stepan Arkadyevitch

Three minutes later Levin ran full speed into the corridor, not looking at his watch for fear of aggravating his sufferings.

PART FIVE · Chapter 4
Levin and Kitty complete the wedding ceremony and exchange rings, formally joining their lives.

PART FIVE · Chapter 4

Levin Kitty

And the bridal pair tried several times to understand what they had to do, and each time made some mistake and were corrected by the priest in a whisper. At last, having duly performed the ceremony, having signed the rings with the cross, the priest handed Kitty the big ring, and Levin the little one.

PART FIVE · Chapter 5
Kitty and Levin marry during a church wedding ceremony.

PART FIVE · Chapter 5

Kitty Levin

In the church there was all Moscow, all the friends and relations; and during the ceremony of plighting troth, in the brilliantly lighted church, there was an incessant flow of discreetly subdued talk

PART FIVE · Chapter 6
Kitty and Levin marry in the church ceremony.

PART FIVE · Chapter 6

Kitty Levin

The priest got him out of his difficulty. He smiled his kindly smile and said gently, “Kiss your wife, and you kiss your husband,”

PART FIVE · Chapter 6
The newly married couple leave for the country.

PART FIVE · Chapter 6 · the same night

Kitty Levin

After supper, the same night, the young people left for the country.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7
Vronsky and Anna arranged to move into a newly taken palazzo.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7

Vronsky Anna

the business about the palazzo had been arranged. The steward was prepared to sign the agreement.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7
Vronsky and Golenishtchev unexpectedly reunited and restored their friendly connection.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7

Vronsky Golenishtchev

But now they beamed and exclaimed with delight on recognizing one another.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7
Vronsky introduced Anna to Golenishtchev, openly acknowledging their life together.

PART FIVE · Chapter 7

Vronsky Anna Golenishtchev

Do you know Madame Karenina? We are traveling together. I am going to see her now

PART FIVE · Chapter 8
Anna leaves her husband’s house and parts from her son, then lives abroad with Vronsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8

Anna Vronsky

the departure from her husband’s house, the parting from her son—all that seemed to her like a delirious dream, from which she had waked up alone with Vronsky abroad.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8
Vronsky sacrifices his political ambition for Anna and adopts civilian dress.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8 · after joining his life to hers

Vronsky Anna

He, who had in her opinion such a marked aptitude for a political career, in which he would have been certain to play a leading part—he had sacrificed his ambition for her sake

PART FIVE · Chapter 8
Vronsky begins painting after seeking new occupations abroad.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8 · after joining his life to hers

Vronsky

he set to work to paint.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8
Vronsky paints Anna’s portrait in Italian costume, and it is considered extremely successful.

PART FIVE · Chapter 8

Vronsky Anna

in that style he began to paint Anna’s portrait in Italian costume, and the portrait seemed to him, and to everyone who saw it, extremely successful.

PART FIVE · Chapter 9
Vronsky and Anna moved into the palazzo, reinforcing his new identity as an artistic patron.

PART FIVE · Chapter 9

Vronsky Anna

The pose chosen by Vronsky with their removal into the palazzo was completely successful

PART FIVE · Chapter 9
Anna, Vronsky, and Golenishtchev went to Mihailov’s studio and requested permission to view his picture.

PART FIVE · Chapter 9 · An hour later

Anna Vronsky Golenishtchev Mihailov

An hour later Anna, with Golenishtchev by her side and Vronsky on the front seat of the carriage, facing them, drove up to a new ugly house in the remote suburb. On learning from the porter’s wife, who came out to them, that Mihailov saw visitors at his studio, but that at that moment he was in his lodging only a couple of steps off, they sent her to him with their cards, asking permission to see his picture.

PART FIVE · Chapter 10
Mihailov and Sasha reconcile after their quarrel.

PART FIVE · Chapter 10

Mihailov Sasha

And having made peace with his wife he put on an olive-green overcoat with a velvet collar and a hat

PART FIVE · Chapter 10
Mihailov transforms his sketch into a vivid, clearly defined figure.

PART FIVE · Chapter 10

Mihailov

The figure from a lifeless imagined thing had become living, and such that it could never be changed.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Mihailov unveils his painting, “the exhortation to Pilate,” for the visitors’ judgment.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Mihailov Vronsky Anna Golenishtchev

“Here, if you please,” he said, moving on one side with his nimble gait and pointing to his picture, “it’s the exhortation to Pilate.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Golenishtchev praises Pilate’s characterization, sending Mihailov from depression into ecstatic confidence.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Mihailov Golenishtchev

His heart warmed to Golenishtchev for this remark, and from a state of depression he suddenly passed to ecstasy.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Anna praises Christ’s expression as pitying Pilate, pleasing Mihailov.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Anna Mihailov

“How marvelous Christ’s expression is!” said Anna.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Golenishtchev criticizes Mihailov’s portrayal of Christ as man-god rather than God-man.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Golenishtchev Mihailov

“That is, that you make Him the man-god, and not the God-man.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Mihailov reveals that he cannot paint a Christ absent from his own heart.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Mihailov

“I cannot paint a Christ that is not in my heart,” said Mihailov gloomily.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11
Golenishtchev argues that Ivanov’s Christ raises a theological question that destroys artistic unity.

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Golenishtchev Mihailov Ivanov

“And before the picture of Ivanov the question arises for the believer and the unbeliever alike, ‘Is it God, or is it not God?’ and the unity of the impression is destroyed.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 12
Mihailov corrects Christ’s foreshortened leg in his painting.

PART FIVE · Chapter 12 · Today

Mihailov

He took his palette and began to work. As he corrected the leg he looked continually at the figure of John in the background

PART FIVE · Chapter 12
Vronsky decides to buy Mihailov’s picture of the boys.

PART FIVE · Chapter 12

Vronsky

“Yes, I mustn’t let it slip; I must buy it,” said Vronsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13
Mihailov sold Vronsky a picture and agreed to paint Anna’s portrait.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13 · On the day fixed

Mihailov Vronsky Anna

Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture, and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. On the day fixed he came and began the work.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13
Mihailov completed Anna’s portrait, ending the sittings and leaving the portrait with them.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13

Mihailov Anna Vronsky

they were glad when the sittings were over, and they were left with a magnificent portrait in their possession, and he gave up coming.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13
Vronsky abandoned his unfinished painting after recognizing its defects.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13

Vronsky

With his characteristic decision, without explanation or apology, he simply ceased working at painting.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13
Anna and Vronsky resolved to return to Russia and spend summer on Vronsky’s family estate.

PART FIVE · Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Russia]] · The summer

Anna Vronsky

They resolved to go to Russia, to the country. In Petersburg Vronsky intended to arrange a partition of the land with his brother, while Anna meant to see her son. The summer they intended to spend on Vronsky’s great family estate.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14
Levin and Kitty have their first marital quarrel after he returns late and lost.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14 · in the very early days

Levin Kitty

And all at once in the very early days they quarreled, so that she said he did not care for her, that he cared for no one but himself, burst into tears, and wrung her arms.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14
Levin and Kitty reconcile after their first quarrel, renewing their happiness.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14

Levin Kitty

They made peace. She, recognizing that she was wrong, though she did not say so, became tenderer to him, and they experienced new, redoubled happiness in their love.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14
Levin and Kitty repeatedly quarrel over trivial causes during their difficult early marriage.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14 · during all this early time

Levin Kitty

But that did not prevent such quarrels from happening again, and exceedingly often too, on the most unexpected and trivial grounds.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14
After returning from Moscow, Levin and Kitty's married life begins to proceed more smoothly.

PART FIVE · Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · in the third month of their married life

Levin Kitty

It was only in the third month of their married life, after their return from Moscow, where they had been staying for a month, that their life began to go more smoothly.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16
Marya Nikolaevna reconciled with Nikolay Dmitrievitch and moved with him to a provincial town.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Marya Nikolaevna Nikolay Dmitrievitch

She had found Nikolay Dmitrievitch, had again made it up with him in Moscow, and had moved with him to a provincial town

PART FIVE · Chapter 16
Nikolay Dmitrievitch fell gravely ill while returning to Moscow, and his survival became doubtful.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Nikolay Dmitrievitch

he had been taken so ill on the road that it was doubtful if he would ever leave his bed again

PART FIVE · Chapter 16
Levin learned that Nikolay Dmitrievitch was dying and decided to go to him.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16 · Tomorrow

Levin Nikolay Dmitrievitch

Nikolay, my brother, is at death’s door. I shall go to him.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16
After reconciling, Levin and Kitty decided to travel together to Nikolay Dmitrievitch.

PART FIVE · Chapter 16 · the next day

Levin Kitty

It was decided that they should go together the next day.

PART FIVE · Chapter 17
Konstantin Levin discovers that Nikolay Levin is alive but reduced to a death-like physical condition.

PART FIVE · Chapter 17

Levin Nikolay Levin

to realize the terrible truth that this death-like body was his living brother.

PART FIVE · Chapter 17
Kitty enters Nikolay Levin’s sick-room and begins comforting him at his bedside.

PART FIVE · Chapter 17

Kitty Nikolay Levin

she immediately clasped in her fresh young hand the skeleton of his huge hand, pressed it, and began speaking

PART FIVE · Chapter 18
Kitty reorganizes Nikolay Levin’s sickroom and begins intensive nursing care.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18

Kitty Nikolay Levin

She sent for the doctor, sent to the chemist’s, set the maid who had come with her and Marya Nikolaevna to sweep and dust and scrub; she herself washed up something, washed out something else, laid something under the quilt.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18
Nikolay Levin is cleaned, given fresh bedding, and regains hope.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18

Kitty Nikolay Levin

The sick man himself, washed and combed, lay in clean sheets on high raised pillows, in a clean night-shirt with a white collar about his astoundingly thin neck, and with a new expression of hope looked fixedly at Kitty.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18
A new doctor examines Nikolay Levin and prescribes medicine and a strict diet.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18

Nikolay Levin

The new doctor took up a stethoscope and sounded the patient, shook his head, prescribed medicine, and with extreme minuteness explained first how to take the medicine and then what diet was to be kept to.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18
Levin turns Nikolay Levin and kisses his hand, then leaves the room sobbing.

PART FIVE · Chapter 18

Levin Nikolay Levin

Levin, shaking with sobs and unable to articulate a word, went out of the room.

PART FIVE · Chapter 19
Kitty persuades Nikolay to receive extreme unction and absolution.

PART FIVE · Chapter 19 · tomorrow

Kitty Nikolay

I am very glad I persuaded him to receive extreme unction tomorrow

PART FIVE · Chapter 20
Nikolay Levin dies after prolonged agony and prayer for the dying.

PART FIVE · Chapter 20 · Towards night

Nikolay Levin Levin Kitty Marya Nikolaevna

And a minute later the face brightened, a smile came out under the mustaches, and the women who had gathered round began carefully laying out the corpse.

PART FIVE · Chapter 20
The doctor confirms that Kitty is pregnant.

PART FIVE · Chapter 20

Kitty

The doctor confirmed his suppositions in regard to Kitty. Her indisposition was a symptom that she was with child.

PART FIVE · Chapter 21
Anna left Alexey Alexandrovitch’s house, leaving him alone and publicly disgraced.

PART FIVE · Chapter 21

Anna Karenin

It was only when Anna had left his house

PART FIVE · Chapter 21
Alexey Alexandrovitch abandoned his composure, canceled his carriage, barred visitors, and skipped dinner.

PART FIVE · Chapter 21 · on the second day after her departure

Karenin Korney

He gave orders for the carriage that was awaiting him to be taken back, and for no one to be admitted, and he did not go down to dinner.

PART FIVE · Chapter 21
Alexey Alexandrovitch proposed to Anna after her aunt pressured him to make an honorable offer.

PART FIVE · Chapter 21

Karenin Anna

He made the offer, and concentrated on his betrothed and his wife all the feeling of which he was capable.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22
Countess Lidia Ivanovna assumes responsibility for managing Alexey Alexandrovitch’s household and caring for Seryozha.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Karenin Seryozha

Countess Lidia Ivanovna kept her promise. She did actually take upon herself the care of the organization and management of Alexey Alexandrovitch’s household.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22
Countess Lidia Ivanovna tells Seryozha that his father is a saint and his mother is dead.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Seryozha

Countess Lidia Ivanovna went into Seryozha’s part of the house, and dropping tears on the scared child’s cheeks, she told him that his father was a saint and his mother was dead.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22
Korney quietly takes over management of Alexey Alexandrovitch’s household.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22 · now

Korney Karenin

they were modified by Korney, Alexey Alexandrovitch’s valet, who, though no one was aware of the fact, now managed Karenin’s household

PART FIVE · Chapter 22
Countess Lidia Ivanovna turns Alexey Alexandrovitch into an ardent adherent of the new Christian doctrine.

PART FIVE · Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · of late

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Karenin

she almost turned him to Christianity—that is, from an indifferent and apathetic believer she turned him into an ardent and steadfast adherent of the new interpretation of Christian doctrine, which had been gaining ground of late in Petersburg.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23
Countess Lidia Ivanovna takes Alexey Alexandrovitch under her special protection after his trouble.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Karenin

from the time that after Karenin’s trouble she took him under her special protection

PART FIVE · Chapter 23
Countess Lidia Ivanovna learns that Anna Karenina is in Petersburg and seeks to prevent Alexey Alexandrovitch meeting her.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · For several days now

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Anna

She had learned that Anna and Vronsky were in Petersburg. Alexey Alexandrovitch must be saved from seeing her

PART FIVE · Chapter 23
Anna Karenina requests permission to see Seryozha once before her departure.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23 · the next morning

Anna Seryozha Countess Lidia Ivanovna

I entreat permission to see him once before my departure.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23
Countess Lidia Ivanovna refuses Anna Karenina’s request to see Seryozha.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23 · the next morning

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Anna Seryozha

“Say that there is no answer,” said Countess Lidia Ivanovna

PART FIVE · Chapter 23
Countess Lidia Ivanovna summons Alexey Alexandrovitch to discuss a grave and painful subject.

PART FIVE · Chapter 23 · the next morning

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Karenin

I must talk with you of a grave and painful subject.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Alexey Alexandrovitch and Putyatov received the Alexander Nevsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24

Karenin Putyatov

He and Putyatov have received the Alexander Nevsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Alexey Alexandrovitch was separated from Madame Karenina.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24 · shortly after his separation from his wife

Karenin Anna

Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his first note on the new judicial procedure

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Alexey Alexandrovitch’s official career came to an end.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24 · in the course of that year

Karenin

it had become evident to everyone in the course of that year that his career was at an end.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Madame Karenina was seen walking arm in arm with Alexey Vronsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · yesterday

Anna Vronsky

I met her yesterday with Alexey Vronsky, bras dessous, bras dessous, in the Morsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Alexey Alexandrovitch undertook Seryozha’s education and hired a tutor.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24

Karenin Seryozha

Alexey Alexandrovitch devoted some time to the theoretical study of the subject. After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to superintend it, he set to work

PART FIVE · Chapter 24
Countess Lidia Ivanovna received a letter from Madame Karenina, learning she was in Petersburg.

PART FIVE · Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Anna

I have received a letter from her. She is here in Petersburg.

PART FIVE · Chapter 25
Alexey Alexandrovitch consents to Countess Lidia Ivanovna refusing Anna’s request concerning her son.

PART FIVE · Chapter 25

Karenin Anna Countess Lidia Ivanovna

And Alexey Alexandrovitch consented, and Countess Lidia Ivanovna sent the following letter in French:

PART FIVE · Chapter 26
Alexey Alexandrovitch receives the Alexander Nevsky.

PART FIVE · Chapter 26 · today

Karenin

You know papa’s received the Alexander Nevsky today?

PART FIVE · Chapter 26
Alexey Alexandrovitch grants the bandaged clerk’s request for assistance.

PART FIVE · Chapter 26 · today

Karenin

The hall-porter nodded his head affirmatively.

PART FIVE · Chapter 26
Countess Lidia Ivanovna sends Seryozha a birthday present, which Korney takes to Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART FIVE · Chapter 26

Countess Lidia Ivanovna Seryozha Korney Karenin

Korney took it to your papa.

PART FIVE · Chapter 27
Alexey Alexandrovitch received the Alexander Nevsky as a new official honor.

PART FIVE · Chapter 27

Karenin

She told me you’d been given a new star.

PART FIVE · Chapter 27
Seryozha learned his mother was alive but considered dead to him because she was deemed wicked.

PART FIVE · Chapter 27 · Later

Seryozha Karenin Countess Lidia Ivanovna

Later, when he accidentally learned from his old nurse that his mother was not dead, and his father and Lidia Ivanovna had explained to him that she was dead to him because she was wicked

PART FIVE · Chapter 27
Alexey Alexandrovitch punished Seryozha by forbidding him to visit Nadinka.

PART FIVE · Chapter 27 · that evening

Seryozha Karenin Nadinka

His father punished Seryozha by not letting him go to see Nadinka, Lidia Ivanovna’s niece

PART FIVE · Chapter 28
Alexey Vronsky declared Anna Karenina his wife, intending divorce and marriage.

PART FIVE · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · the next morning

Vronsky Anna

Alexey Vronsky told him directly that he looked upon his connection with Madame Karenina as marriage; that he hoped to arrange a divorce, and then to marry her, and until then he considered her as much a wife as any other wife

PART FIVE · Chapter 28
Alexey Vronsky realized society remained closed to Anna Karenina.

PART FIVE · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]

Vronsky Anna

he very quickly perceived that though the world was open for him personally, it was closed for Anna.

PART FIVE · Chapter 28
Varya refused to invite Anna Karenina into her house because of social consequences.

PART FIVE · Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · The day after his arrival

Vronsky Anna Varya

You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29
Countess Lidia Ivanovna gives no answer to Anna’s request for permission to see Sergey Alexeitch.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · on the third day

Anna Countess Lidia Ivanovna

The commissionaire who took the letter had brought her back the most cruel and unexpected answer, that there was no answer.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29
Anna enters her former home and is recognized and admitted by Kapitonitch.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29 · The next day, at eight o’clock in the morning

Anna Kapitonitch

As he took off the cloak, Kapitonitch glanced at her face, recognized her, and made her a low bow in silence.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29
Anna is reunited with Sergey Alexeitch on his birthday.

PART FIVE · Chapter 29 · The next day, at eight o’clock in the morning

Anna Sergey Alexeitch

He raised himself again on his elbow, turned his tangled head from side to side as though looking for something, and opened his eyes. Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30
Kapitonitch admits Anna Arkadyevna into the house and shows her to Seryozha’s nursery.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[nursery]]

Kapitonitch Anna

Kapitonitch had admitted her and shown her up

PART FIVE · Chapter 30
Anna Arkadyevna reunites with Seryozha during his birthday visit.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[nursery]]

Anna Seryozha

Seryozha, with radiant eyes and smiles, holding his mother by one hand and his nurse by the other, pattered on the rug

PART FIVE · Chapter 30
Anna Arkadyevna tells Seryozha to love his father and admits she wronged him.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[nursery]]

Anna Seryozha Karenin

“Seryozha, my darling,” she said, “love him; he’s better and kinder than I am, and I have done him wrong.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30
Alexey Alexandrovitch enters the nursery and encounters Anna Arkadyevna.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[nursery]]

Karenin Anna

Alexey Alexandrovitch walked in, meeting her.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30
Anna Arkadyevna leaves the nursery immediately after encountering Alexey Alexandrovitch.

PART FIVE · Chapter 30 · 📍 [[nursery]]

Anna

with rapid steps went to the door. Alexey Alexandrovitch walked in, meeting her.

PART FIVE · Chapter 31
Anna sees Seryozha again, profoundly confronting their enduring separation.

PART FIVE · Chapter 31

Anna Seryozha

As intensely as Anna had longed to see her son, and long as she had been thinking of it and preparing herself for it, she had not in the least expected that seeing him would affect her so deeply.

PART FIVE · Chapter 32
Anna decides to attend Patti’s benefit despite Vronsky’s objections.

PART FIVE · Chapter 32

Anna

“I would go if it were possible to get a box.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 33
Anna Arkadyevna attends the theater despite Vronsky’s warning, provoking society’s hostile attention.

PART FIVE · Chapter 33 · 📍 [[the theater]]

Anna

Anna Arkadyevna gave orders to announce that she has gone to the theater.

PART FIVE · Chapter 33
Madame Kartasova publicly insults Anna Arkadyevna and leaves the box.

PART FIVE · Chapter 33 · 📍 [[the theater]]

Madame Kartasova Anna

She has insulted Madame Karenina. Her husband began talking to her across the box, and Madame Kartasova made a scene. She said something aloud, he says, something insulting, and went away.

PART FIVE · Chapter 33
Anna Arkadyevna and Vronsky become completely reconciled and leave for the country.

PART FIVE · Chapter 33 · 📍 [[the country]] · The next day

Anna Vronsky

The next day, completely reconciled, they left for the country.

PART SIX · Chapter 4
Sergey Ivanovitch resolves to declare his feelings to Varenka.

PART SIX · Chapter 4

Sergey Ivanovitch Varenka

He felt that he had made up his mind. Varenka, who had just crouched down to pick a mushroom, rose with a supple movement and looked round. Flinging away the cigar, Sergey Ivanovitch advanced with resolute steps towards her.

PART SIX · Chapter 5
Sergey Ivanovitch’s intended marriage proposal is not spoken, ending their moment of romantic possibility.

PART SIX · Chapter 5 · 📍 [[wood]]

Sergey Ivanovitch Varvara Andreevna

And as soon as these words were uttered, both he and she felt that it was over, that what was to have been said would not be said;

PART SIX · Chapter 6
Stepan Arkadyevitch arrived at the Levins’ with Vassenka Veslovsky instead of the old prince.

PART SIX · Chapter 6 · That evening

Stepan Arkadyevitch Vassenka Veslovsky

As he got nearer to the carriage he saw beside Stepan Arkadyevitch not the prince but a handsome, stout young man in a Scotch cap, with long ends of ribbon behind.

PART SIX · Chapter 7
Levin apologizes for his jealousy, and Kitty reassures him, restoring their mutual happiness.

PART SIX · Chapter 7

Levin Kitty

Katya, I’ve been worrying you! Darling, forgive me! It’s madness! Katya, I’m a criminal.

PART SIX · Chapter 8
Kitty forgives Levin for his previous day's foolishness and assures him she is not angry.

PART SIX · Chapter 8 · Next day

Levin Kitty

Then he had once more to hear her declare that she was not angry with him for going away for two days

PART SIX · Chapter 8
Levin leaves Kitty for two days of shooting.

PART SIX · Chapter 8 · Next day

Levin Kitty

Kitty was distressed, as she always was, at parting for a couple of days from her husband

PART SIX · Chapter 8
Levin orders the carpenter to replace the improperly constructed staircase.

PART SIX · Chapter 8 · Next day

Levin

It seems it’ll be best to make a new one.

PART SIX · Chapter 8
Vassenka discovers his pocketbook may be missing, prompting Levin to send the coachman back.

PART SIX · Chapter 8 · After they had driven over two miles from home

Vassenka Veslovsky Levin

The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself drove the remaining pair.

PART SIX · Chapter 9
Vassenka accidentally discharged his gun, but the charge struck the ground harmlessly.

PART SIX · Chapter 9

Vassenka Veslovsky

The charge flew into the ground without doing harm to anyone.

PART SIX · Chapter 9
Vassenka killed a peewit during the first marsh hunt.

PART SIX · Chapter 9

Vassenka Veslovsky

Except little birds and peewits, of which Vassenka killed one, there was nothing in the marsh.

PART SIX · Chapter 9
Vassenka shot a grouse after Krak found it in the unmown meadow.

PART SIX · Chapter 9

Vassenka Veslovsky

Krak found it again and pointed, and Veslovsky shot it and went back to the carriage.

PART SIX · Chapter 9
Vassenka drove into the marsh, stuck the horses, and broke the wagonette’s mud-guard.

PART SIX · Chapter 9

Levin Vassenka Veslovsky

Veslovsky, eager to see the shooting, had driven into the marsh, and got the horses stuck in the mud.

PART SIX · Chapter 10
The hunters divide to shoot separate parts of the marsh.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Levin Stepan Arkadyevitch Vassenka Veslovsky

Levin could do nothing but agree, and they divided.

PART SIX · Chapter 10
Stepan Arkadyevitch kills two snipe during the first shooting.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Stepan Arkadyevitch

Stepan Arkadyevitch hit one at the very moment when it was beginning its zigzag movements, and the snipe fell in a heap into the mud. Oblonsky aimed deliberately at another, still flying low in the reeds, and together with the report of the shot, that snipe too fell

PART SIX · Chapter 10
Vassenka leaves the marsh to join the peasants for vodka and food.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Vassenka Veslovsky

Veslovsky, bent and stumbling with weariness, holding his gun out at arm’s length, was making his way out of the marsh towards the peasants.

PART SIX · Chapter 10
Levin abandons shooting in frustration after repeated misses.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Levin

At last, after a disgraceful miss, he flung his gun and his hat on the ground.

PART SIX · Chapter 10
Levin finishes the hunt with only five birds in his game-bag.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Levin

He had only five birds in his game-bag when he walked out of the marsh towards the alders where he was to rejoin Stepan Arkadyevitch.

PART SIX · Chapter 10
Stepan Arkadyevitch finishes the hunt with fourteen birds.

PART SIX · Chapter 10

Stepan Arkadyevitch

He had fourteen birds.

PART SIX · Chapter 12
Levin shoots two grouse in the marsh.

PART SIX · Chapter 12 · 📍 [[marsh]] · at earliest dawn

Levin

Ten paces from her former place a grouse rose with a guttural cry and the peculiar round sound of its wings. And immediately after the shot it splashed heavily with its white breast on the wet mire. Another bird did not linger, but rose behind Levin without the dog. When Levin turned towards it, it was already some way off. But his shot caught it. Flying twenty paces further, the second grouse rose upwards, and whirling round like a ball, dropped heavily on a dry place.

PART SIX · Chapter 12
Levin kills three snipe in succession.

PART SIX · Chapter 12 · 📍 [[marsh]]

Levin

And Levin was doubly pleased, in sight of the boy, who expressed his approval, at killing three snipe, one after another, straight off.

PART SIX · Chapter 13
Marya Vlasyevna came to examine Kitty and was retained as her bodyguard.

PART SIX · Chapter 13

Marya Vlasyevna Kitty

She has come to have a look at me. She found me perfectly well, and we have kept her till you are back.

PART SIX · Chapter 13
Levin returned from the hunt with nineteen head of game and one duck.

PART SIX · Chapter 13 · At ten o’clock

Levin

At ten o’clock Levin, weary, hungry, and happy after a tramp of twenty miles, returned to his night’s lodging with nineteen head of fine game and one duck

PART SIX · Chapter 14
Levin and Kitty confront their marital misery and reconcile, returning home comforted and radiant.

PART SIX · Chapter 14 · Next day

Levin Kitty

Although nothing had been pursuing them, and there was nothing to run away from, and they could not possibly have found anything very delightful on that garden seat, the gardener saw with astonishment that they passed him on their way home with comforted and radiant faces.

PART SIX · Chapter 15
Levin dismisses Veslovsky from the house and orders his departure to the station.

PART SIX · Chapter 15 · 📍 [[the station]] · that day

Levin Veslovsky

“I have ordered the horses to be put-to for you.” “How so?” Vassenka began in surprise. “To drive where?” “For you to drive to the station,” Levin said gloomily.

PART SIX · Chapter 17
Anna joyfully reunites with Darya Alexandrovna after recognizing her in the carriage.

PART SIX · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vozdvizhenskoe]]

Anna Darya Alexandrovna

Anna’s face suddenly beamed with a joyful smile at the instant when, in the little figure huddled in a corner of the old carriage, she recognized Dolly.

PART SIX · Chapter 18
Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky became a careful, businesslike manager of the estate.

PART SIX · Chapter 18 · for a long while past

Vronsky

he has become intensely interested in looking after it. But his is such a rich nature! Whatever he takes up, he does splendidly. So far from being bored by it, he works with passionate interest. He—with his temperament as I know it—he has become careful and businesslike, a first-rate manager

PART SIX · Chapter 18
Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky began building a new hospital costing over a hundred thousand.

PART SIX · Chapter 18 · just now

Vronsky

that’s the new hospital. I believe it will cost over a hundred thousand; that’s his hobby just now.

PART SIX · Chapter 18
Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky restored the ruined park and estate grounds.

PART SIX · Chapter 18 · for a long while past

Vronsky

It had all gone to ruin, but Alexey had everything renewed.

PART SIX · Chapter 19
Annie is revealed to have no surname and is officially called Karenina.

PART SIX · Chapter 19

Anna Annie Alexey

She has no name—that is, she’s a Karenina

PART SIX · Chapter 19
Princess Varvara becomes Anna’s essential chaperon and helps alleviate her difficult position.

PART SIX · Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · In Petersburg

Princess Varvara Anna

In Petersburg there was a moment when a chaperon was absolutely essential for me. Then she turned up.

PART SIX · Chapter 19
Betsy rejects Tushkevitch, who subsequently comes to visit Anna and Alexey.

PART SIX · Chapter 19 · Now

Betsy Tushkevitch

Now he’s been thrown over and he’s come to see us.

PART SIX · Chapter 20
Anna’s husband is expected to give her a divorce.

PART SIX · Chapter 20

Anna

Her husband will give her a divorce, and then I shall go back to my solitude

PART SIX · Chapter 20
Vronsky’s hospital is nearing completion and is expected to be ready by autumn.

PART SIX · Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Vozdvizhenskoe]] · By the autumn

Vronsky

By the autumn it will all be ready. Inside almost everything is done

PART SIX · Chapter 20
Construction begins on a doctor’s house and dispensary beside the hospital.

PART SIX · Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Vozdvizhenskoe]]

Vronsky

That’s the house for the doctor and the dispensary

PART SIX · Chapter 21
Vronsky reveals that Anna’s daughter is legally Alexey Alexandrovitch’s, and future children would bear Karenin’s name.

PART SIX · Chapter 21

Vronsky Anna Karenin

My daughter is by law not my daughter, but Karenin’s. I cannot bear this falsity!

PART SIX · Chapter 21
Vronsky asks Darya Alexandrovna to persuade Anna to write Alexey Alexandrovitch requesting a divorce.

PART SIX · Chapter 21

Vronsky Darya Alexandrovna Anna

Help me to persuade her to write to him and ask for a divorce.

PART SIX · Chapter 21
Darya Alexandrovna agrees to use her influence with Anna and discuss requesting a divorce.

PART SIX · Chapter 21

Darya Alexandrovna Anna

Yes, indeed, for my own sake and for hers I will talk to her

PART SIX · Chapter 22
Vronsky is elected a justice of the peace and embraces the public duty.

PART SIX · Chapter 22

Vronsky Sviazhsky

I am, on the contrary, extremely grateful for the honor they have done me, thanks to Nikolay Ivanitch” (he indicated Sviazhsky), “in electing me a justice of the peace.

PART SIX · Chapter 22
Darya Alexandrovna detects a deep private disagreement between Anna Arkadyevna and Vronsky.

PART SIX · Chapter 22

Anna Vronsky Darya Alexandrovna

Dolly surmised that this question of public activity was connected with some deep private disagreement between Anna and Vronsky.

PART SIX · Chapter 22
Darya Alexandrovna decides to leave and return home after one day.

PART SIX · Chapter 22 · next day

Darya Alexandrovna

But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.

PART SIX · Chapter 23
Anna reveals that a doctor told her she cannot have more children, and she does not want any.

PART SIX · Chapter 23

Anna Darya Alexandrovna

“I shall not, because I don’t wish it.” And, in spite of all her emotion, Anna smiled, as she caught the naïve expression of curiosity, wonder, and horror on Dolly’s face. “The doctor told me after my illness....”

PART SIX · Chapter 23
Anna reveals that Betsy Tverskaya had an affair with Tushkevitch while deceiving her husband.

PART SIX · Chapter 23

Betsy Tushkevitch

Au fond, c’est la femme la plus depravée qui existe. She had an intrigue with Tushkevitch, deceiving her husband in the basest way.

PART SIX · Chapter 24
Anna reveals that divorce could cost her Seryozha and leave her unable to have both him and Vronsky.

PART SIX · Chapter 24

Anna Darya Alexandrovna Vronsky Seryozha

In the first place, he won’t give me a divorce. He’s under the influence of Countess Lidia Ivanovna now.

PART SIX · Chapter 24
Anna explains that she loves Seryozha and Vronsky equally but cannot have them together.

PART SIX · Chapter 24

Anna Darya Alexandrovna Vronsky Seryozha

I receive his consent, but my ... my son? They won’t give him up to me. He will grow up despising me, with his father, whom I’ve abandoned. Do you see, I love ... equally, I think, but both more than myself—two creatures, Seryozha and Alexey.

PART SIX · Chapter 24
Darya Alexandrovna decides to return home rather than remain away from her children.

PART SIX · Chapter 24 · the next day

Darya Alexandrovna

That world of her own seemed to her now so sweet and precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go back next day.

PART SIX · Chapter 24
Darya Alexandrovna leaves her hosts and begins her homeward journey.

PART SIX · Chapter 24 · Next morning

Darya Alexandrovna

Next morning, in spite of the protests of her hosts, Darya Alexandrovna prepared for her homeward journey.

PART SIX · Chapter 25
Provincial elections took place in the Kashinsky province.

PART SIX · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Kashinsky province]] · In October

Vronsky Sviazhsky Koznishev Stepan Arkadyevitch Levin

In October there were the provincial elections in the Kashinsky province, where were the estates of Vronsky, Sviazhsky, Koznishev, Oblonsky, and a small part of Levin’s land.

PART SIX · Chapter 25
Vronsky departed for the elections without fully explaining himself to Anna for the first time.

PART SIX · Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Vozdvizhenskoe]]

Vronsky Anna

It was the first time since the beginning of their intimacy that he had parted from her without a full explanation.

PART SIX · Chapter 26
Sviazhsky was elected district marshal unanimously without a ballot.

PART SIX · Chapter 26 · 📍 [[Seleznevsky district]] · On the fifth day

Sviazhsky

In the Seleznevsky district Sviazhsky was elected unanimously without a ballot

PART SIX · Chapter 27
The election of the marshal of the province was scheduled.

PART SIX · Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hall of Nobility]] · The sixth day

Snetkov

The sixth day was fixed for the election of the marshal of the province.

PART SIX · Chapter 27
Sviazhsky urged Hliustov to ask Snetkov to stand for election.

PART SIX · Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hall of Nobility]]

Sviazhsky Hliustov Sergey Ivanovitch Snetkov

Hliustov would not agree to go with his district to ask Snetkov to stand, while Sviazhsky was persuading him to do so, and Sergey Ivanovitch was approving of the plan.

PART SIX · Chapter 27
Eight districts agreed to invite Snetkov to stand for election.

PART SIX · Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hall of Nobility]]

Snetkov

Now eight districts had agreed to call upon him: if two refused to do so, Snetkov might decline to stand at all

PART SIX · Chapter 28
A ballot admits Flerov, giving the new party a decisive victory.

PART SIX · Chapter 28

Flerov Levin Sergey Ivanovich Koznyshev

The nobleman was allowed the right to vote, and the new party had conquered.

PART SIX · Chapter 28
The old party asks Snetkov to stand as its candidate in the election.

PART SIX · Chapter 28

Snetkov

But the old party did not consider themselves conquered. Levin heard that they were asking Snetkov to stand

PART SIX · Chapter 28
Snetkov becomes overwhelmed while defending his twelve years of service and leaves the room in tears.

PART SIX · Chapter 28

Snetkov

and suddenly he stopped short from the tears that choked him, and went out of the room.

PART SIX · Chapter 28
Snetkov’s partisans disable three noblemen from voting by drunkenness and theft of a uniform.

PART SIX · Chapter 28

Snetkov

Two noble gentlemen, who had a weakness for strong drink, had been made drunk by the partisans of Snetkov, and a third had been robbed of his uniform.

PART SIX · Chapter 28
The new party restores two disabled voters for the impending election.

PART SIX · Chapter 28

Levin

the new party had made haste, during the dispute about Flerov, to send some of their men in a sledge to clothe the stripped gentleman, and to bring along one of the intoxicated to the meeting.

PART SIX · Chapter 30
Mihail Stepanovitch Snetkov is elected marshal of the province by a considerable majority.

PART SIX · Chapter 30

Mihail Stepanovitch Snetkov

The marshal had been voted for by a considerable majority.

PART SIX · Chapter 30
Nevyedovsky becomes the new marshal of the province after receiving the planned higher majority.

PART SIX · Chapter 30

Nevyedovsky

Nevyedovsky had scored a higher majority, as they had planned, and he was the new marshal of the province.

PART SIX · Chapter 31
Nevyedovsky is elected marshal of the province by twenty votes.

PART SIX · Chapter 31 · that day

Nevyedovsky

Nevyedovsky elected by twenty votes. Congratulations. Tell people.

PART SIX · Chapter 31
Vronsky gains unmistakable influence among the province’s nobility through his election success.

PART SIX · Chapter 31

Vronsky

his success was unmistakable, and he was not wrong in supposing that he had already obtained a certain influence.

PART SIX · Chapter 31
Annie becomes seriously ill, with the doctor warning it may be inflammation.

PART SIX · Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Vozdvizhenskoe]] · Today

Annie

Annie is very ill, the doctor says it may be inflammation.

PART SIX · Chapter 31
Vronsky leaves the elections and returns home after learning of Annie’s illness.

PART SIX · Chapter 31 · by the first train that night

Vronsky

But he had to go, and by the first train that night he set off home.

PART SIX · Chapter 32
Anna resolves to accept divorce and marriage when Vronsky or Stiva raises the subject.

PART SIX · Chapter 32

Anna

And she began to long for that, and made up her mind to agree to it the first time he or Stiva approached her on the subject.

PART SIX · Chapter 32
Anna writes to Alexey Alexandrovitch asking for a divorce.

PART SIX · Chapter 32

Anna Karenin

Anna wrote to her husband asking him about a divorce

PART SIX · Chapter 32
Anna and Vronsky move to Moscow and establish themselves together like married people.

PART SIX · Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · towards the end of November

Anna Vronsky

towards the end of November, taking leave of Princess Varvara, who wanted to go to Petersburg, she went with Vronsky to Moscow. Expecting every day an answer from Alexey Alexandrovitch, and after that the divorce, they now established themselves together like married people.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 1
Kitty met Vronsky at Princess Marya Borissovna’s home and remained composed despite her former feelings.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 1

Kitty Vronsky Princess Marya Borissovna

Kitty, though she did not go into society at all on account of her condition, went with her father to see the venerable old lady, and there met Vronsky.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 1
Levin learned about Kitty’s meeting with Vronsky and became reassured by her composure.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Kitty Levin

When he had heard everything, even to the detail that for the first second she could not help flushing, but that afterwards she was just as direct and as much at her ease as with any chance acquaintance, Levin was quite happy again and said he was glad of it

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2
Levin orders Sokolov to sell the wheat and borrow an advance against the mill.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2

Levin Sokolov

I have told Sokolov to sell the wheat, and to borrow an advance on the mill.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2
Dolly’s financial position worsens, leaving her deeply indebted and penniless.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Darya Alexandrovna

Dolly’s position is becoming utterly impossible? She’s in debt all round; she hasn’t a penny.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2
Kitty and Arseny decide to send Levin to discuss Dolly’s financial crisis with Stiva.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Levin Arseny Stepan Arkadyevitch

we determined to send you with him to talk to Stiva.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2
Levin’s bank funds are exhausted, leaving him uncertain how to obtain more money.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Levin

But now the money in the bank had gone, and he could not quite tell where to get the next installment.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 3
University professors split into two parties after younger professors registered a separate resolution.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that winter

Katavasov

Three old professors in the council had not accepted the opinion of the younger professors. The young ones had registered a separate resolution. This, in the judgment of some people, was monstrous, in the judgment of others it was the simplest and most just thing to do, and the professors were split up into two parties.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 3
Levin refused Metrov’s invitation and left the meeting for Lvov’s.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 3 · at the end of the meeting

Levin Metrov Lvov

And having made up his mind to refuse Metrov’s invitation, Levin went up to him at the end of the meeting. Metrov introduced Levin to the chairman, with whom he was talking of the political news. Metrov told the chairman what he had already told Levin, and Levin made the same remarks on his news that he had already made that morning, but for the sake of variety he expressed also a new opinion which had only just struck him. After that the conversation turned again on the university question. As Levin had already heard it all, he made haste to tell Metrov that he was sorry he could not take advantage of his invitation, took leave, and drove to Lvov’s.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 4
Arseny Lvov left diplomatic service and transferred to the department of the court of the palace in Moscow.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · During the previous year

Arseny Lvov

During the previous year he had left the diplomatic service, not owing to any “unpleasantness” (he never had any “unpleasantness” with anyone), and was transferred to the department of the court of the palace in Moscow, in order to give his two boys the best education possible.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 4
Madame Apraksina died suddenly.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 4

Madame Apraksina

a conversation was kept up without a break upon Herzegovina, Princess Korzinskaya, the town council, and the sudden death of Madame Apraksina.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 6
Madame Apraksina dies suddenly.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 6

Madame Apraksina

Levin answered, and repeated an inquiry about Madame Apraksina’s sudden death.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 7
Vronsky’s horse Atlas wins the first prize at the races.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 7

Vronsky

how smartly Vronsky’s Atlas had won the first prize.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 7
Levin becomes reconciled to Vronsky during the club dinner.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 7

Levin Vronsky

Vronsky particularly laughed with such simplehearted amusement that Levin felt quite reconciled to him.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 8
Levin and Vronsky reconcile and become friends.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 8

Levin Vronsky

“Well, there’s nothing for us now but to kiss and be friends,” Vronsky said, with good-natured playfulness, holding out his hand.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9
Anna Arkadyevna’s divorce negotiations stall, delaying her planned marriage to Vronsky.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · for three months past

Anna Vronsky

We are carrying on negotiations with her husband about a divorce. And he’s agreed; but there are difficulties in regard to the son, and the business, which ought to have been arranged long ago, has been dragging on for three months past. As soon as the divorce is over, she will marry Vronsky.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9
Princess Varvara leaves Anna Arkadyevna, considering her situation a breach of propriety.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Anna Princess Varvara

That fool Princess Varvara, even she has left her, considering this a breach of propriety.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9
Vorkuev receives Anna Arkadyevna’s children’s-book manuscript and declares it remarkable.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Anna Vorkuev

She’s writing a children’s book, and doesn’t talk about it to anyone, but she read it to me and I gave the manuscript to Vorkuev ... you know the publisher ... and he’s an author himself too, I fancy. He understands those things, and he says it’s a remarkable piece of work.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9
Anna Arkadyevna takes an English girl into her household and assumes responsibility for the girl’s family.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Anna

She saw them, helped them, got more and more interested in them, and now the whole family is on her hands. But not by way of patronage, you know, helping with money; she’s herself preparing the boys in Russian for the high school, and she’s taken the little girl to live with her.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10
Anna takes the English girl as her pupil after failing to feel drawn to village-school work.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10

Anna

I took to this child—I could not myself say why.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10
Anna and Levin establish a warmer understanding, acknowledging that their reserve has ended.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10 · At eleven o’clock

Anna Levin

I am very glad que la glace est rompue.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10
Anna asks Levin to tell Dolly that she still loves her and cannot expect forgiveness.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 10 · At eleven o’clock

Anna Darya Alexandrovna

Tell your wife that I love her as before, and that if she cannot pardon me my position, then my wish for her is that she may never pardon it.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11
Levin feels at ease with Vronsky, ending their previous awkwardness.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11

Levin Vronsky

I felt quite at ease and natural with him. You understand, I shall try not to see him, but I’m glad that this awkwardness is all over

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11
Levin decides to sell the corn for five and a half roubles.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11

Levin Sokolov

Well, we must sell it at five and a half if we can’t get more

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11
Katerina Alexandrovna threatens to leave Levin after suspecting his love for Anna.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11 · tomorrow

Kitty Levin

No, we must go away.... I shall go away tomorrow.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11
Levin promises to avoid Anna, and he and Katerina Alexandrovna reconcile sufficiently to sleep.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11 · at three o’clock

Kitty Levin Anna

Only at three o’clock were they sufficiently reconciled to be able to go to sleep.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12
Anna deliberately arouses Levin’s feeling of love during the evening.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12 · the whole evening

Anna Levin

She had unconsciously the whole evening done her utmost to arouse in Levin a feeling of love

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12
Anna reveals that she feels on the brink of calamity and fears herself.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12 · at this instant

Anna Vronsky

If you knew what it is for me! When I feel as I do now that you are hostile, yes, hostile to me, if you knew what this means for me! If you knew how I feel on the brink of calamity at this instant, how afraid I am of myself!

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12
A spirit of strife develops between Anna and Vronsky alongside their love.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 12

Anna Vronsky

And she felt that beside the love that bound them together there had grown up between them some evil spirit of strife, which she could not exorcise from his, and still less from her own heart.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13
Kitty recognizes that labor has begun and asks Levin to summon Lizaveta Petrovna.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13 · At seven o’clock

Kitty Lizaveta Petrovna

“Kostya, don’t be frightened. It’s all right. But I fancy.... We ought to send for Lizaveta Petrovna.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13
Kitty directs the maid to prepare the bedroom as her labor progresses.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13 · that morning

Kitty Pasha

He stood at the door and heard Kitty giving exact directions to the maid, and beginning to help her move the bedstead.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13
Levin leaves to fetch the doctor and encounters Lizaveta Petrovna on her way to assist Kitty.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13 · that morning

Levin Kouzma Lizaveta Petrovna

At the corner he met a night cabman driving hurriedly. In the little sledge, wrapped in a velvet cloak, sat Lizaveta Petrovna with a kerchief round her head.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14
Pyotr Dmitrievitch agrees to attend Kitty after Levin urgently seeks medical help.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14

Levin Pyotr Dmitrievitch

“But there’s no hurry. Please sit down; won’t you have some coffee?”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14
Kitty’s labor progresses, and Lizaveta Petrovna advises persuading her to lie down.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14

Kitty Lizaveta Petrovna

“She’s going on well,” she said; “persuade her to lie down. She will be easier so.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14
Kitty’s labor continues beyond five hours without changing, intensifying Levin’s distress.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 14 · five hours

Kitty Levin

But after that hour there passed another hour, two hours, three, the full five hours he had fixed as the furthest limit of his sufferings, and the position was still unchanged;

PART SEVEN · Chapter 15
Kitty survives childbirth and gives birth to a boy.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 15

Kitty Levin Lizaveta Petrovna

“Alive! alive! And a boy too! Set your mind at rest!”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 16
Dmitri begins nursing from Kitty and falls asleep in her arms.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 16

Dmitri Kitty Lizaveta Petrovna

Suddenly laughter made him look round. The baby had taken the breast. “Come, that’s enough, that’s enough!” said Lizaveta Petrovna, but Kitty would not let the baby go. He fell asleep in her arms.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17
Darya Alexandrovna asserted her property rights and refused to sign the receipt for the forest’s final payment.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17 · for the first time that winter

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Darya Alexandrovna, for the first time that winter insisting on her right to her own property, had refused to sign the receipt for the payment of the last third of the forest.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17
Stepan Arkadyevitch went to Petersburg to pursue a lucrative appointment and obtain Karenin’s answer about Anna’s divorce.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · in the spring

Stepan Arkadyevitch Anna Karenin

Besides this business, Stepan Arkadyevitch had promised his sister Anna to obtain from Karenin a definite answer on the question of divorce. And begging fifty roubles from Dolly, he set off for Petersburg.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17
Alexey Alexandrovitch agreed to mention Stepan Arkadyevitch’s desired appointment to Pomorsky.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 17

Karenin Stepan Arkadyevitch Pomorsky

Of course, I can mention it to him; but what is your reason precisely for wishing to obtain the appointment?

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18
Anna Arkadyevna now seeks divorce without asking Alexey Alexandrovitch for their son.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18

Anna Karenin

She does not ask for her son now. Alexey Alexandrovitch, you are a good man.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18
Anna Arkadyevna moved to Moscow and has awaited an answer about divorce.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · for six months

Anna

But you promised it, and she wrote to you, and moved to Moscow. And here she’s been for six months in Moscow

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18
Alexey Alexandrovitch postpones his final decision on Anna's divorce request.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 18 · The day after tomorrow

Karenin Stepan Arkadyevitch

I must think it over and seek for guidance. The day after tomorrow I will give you a final answer

PART SEVEN · Chapter 19
After recovering from a serious illness, Sergey Alexyevitch was sent to school and regained his strength.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 19 · in the summer

Sergey Alexyevitch Karenin

But with rational treatment, and sea-bathing in the summer, he regained his strength, and now, by the doctor’s advice, I have let him go to school.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 19
Stepan Arkadyevitch’s question about Anna distressed Sergey Alexyevitch and caused him to withdraw.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 19

Stepan Arkadyevitch Sergey Alexyevitch

“Do you remember your mother?” he asked suddenly. “No, I don’t,” Seryozha said quickly. He blushed crimson, and his face clouded over.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20
Alexey Alexandrovitch postponed giving Stepan Arkadyevitch a final answer.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20 · Yesterday

Karenin Stepan Arkadyevitch

He gave me no answer, and said he would think it over.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20
Countess Bezzubova adopted Jules Landau as her son.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20

Jules Landau Countess Bezzubova

He cured Countess Bezzubova, and she took such a fancy to him that she adopted him.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20
Princess Myakaya revealed that Jules Landau controlled decisions in Countess Lidia Ivanovna’s and Alexey Alexandrovitch’s households.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 20 · now

Princess Myakaya Jules Landau Countess Lidia Ivanovna Karenin

nothing is settled now in her house or Alexey Alexandrovitch’s without him, and so your sister’s fate is now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Landau is revealed to be Count Bezzubov.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21

Count Bezzubov

but he is really Count Bezzubov, as you’re probably aware. Only he does not like the title.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Count Bezzubov completely cures Countess Bezzubova.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21

Count Bezzubov Countess Bezzubova

they say he completely cured Countess Bezzubova.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Countess Bezzubova suffers from separation as Count Bezzubov prepares to leave.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21

Countess Bezzubova Count Bezzubov

This separation is awful for her. It’s such a blow to her!

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Count Bezzubov announces his departure for Paris after hearing a voice.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Paris]]

Count Bezzubov

Yes, he’s going to Paris. He heard a voice yesterday,

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Alexey Alexandrovitch undergoes a profound religious transformation.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21

Karenin

his heart is changed, a new heart has been vouchsafed him

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21
Marie Sanina loses her only child and later finds religious consolation.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 21

Marie Sanina

You know about her trouble? She lost her only child. She was in despair.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 22
Alexey Alexandrovitch finally refused to grant Anna Karenina a divorce, influenced by Landau’s trance.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 22 · Next day

Karenin Anna Landau

Next day he received from Alexey Alexandrovitch a final answer, refusing to grant Anna’s divorce, and he understood that this decision was based on what the Frenchman had said in his real or pretended trance.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23
Vronsky and Anna remain in Moscow instead of returning to Vozdvizhenskoe as planned.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Moscow]]

Vronsky Anna

But they did not go back to Vozdvizhenskoe, as they had arranged to do long before; they went on staying in Moscow, though they both loathed it, because of late there had been no agreement between them.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23
Anna and Vronsky quarrel over women’s education and Hannah, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23 · yesterday

Vronsky Anna Hannah

It all arose from his laughing at the girls’ high schools, declaring they were useless, while she defended them. He had spoken slightingly of women’s education in general, and had said that Hannah, Anna’s English protégée, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23
Anna orders boxes brought up to pack their things for the country.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 23

Anna

And to escape thinking any more, and being overcome by irritability, she rang, and ordered the boxes to be brought up for packing their things for the country.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24
Anna and Vronsky agree to leave for the country the day after tomorrow.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24 · the day after tomorrow

Anna Vronsky

Anna, we’ll go the day after tomorrow, if you like. I agree to everything.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24
Anna declares their relationship over during a bitter quarrel with Vronsky.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24

Anna Vronsky

I want love, and there is none. So then all is over.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24
Vronsky reassures Anna of his enduring love, and they reconcile tenderly.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 24

Anna Vronsky

that he had never ceased, and never would cease, to love her; that he loved her more than ever.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25
Anna learns that Stiva has not secured her divorce, though he promises a decisive answer soon.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25 · in the morning

Anna Vronsky Stepan Arkadyevitch

“About the divorce?” “Yes; but he says he has not been able to come at anything yet. He has promised a decisive answer in a day or two.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25
Yashvin wins approximately sixty thousand from Pyevtsov, though repayment remains uncertain.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25 · this morning

Yashvin Pyevtsov

“Yashvin meant to come this morning with Voytov,” said Vronsky; “I believe he’s won from Pyevtsov all and more than he can pay, about sixty thousand.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25
Anna declares that she has decided, rejecting further discussion of their uncertain position.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25 · that morning

Anna Vronsky

“Must decide, and I have decided,” she said, and she would have gone away, but at that moment Yashvin walked into the room.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25
Anna confirms their departure is decided, signaling that their reconciliation has failed.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25 · the day after tomorrow

Anna Vronsky

“But now it’s quite decided,” said Anna, looking Vronsky straight in the face with a look which told him not to dream of the possibility of reconciliation.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25
Anna withdraws from Vronsky, reporting a headache and asking him not to enter her room.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 25 · late in the evening

Anna Vronsky

The whole of that day he spent away from home, and when he came in late in the evening the maid told him that Anna Arkadyevna had a headache and begged him not to go in to her.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26
Alexei Vronsky receives money and deeds from his mother, delivered by Madame Sorokina and her daughter.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26 · In the morning

Vronsky Madame Sorokina

That was Madame Sorokina and her daughter. They came and brought me the money and the deeds from maman.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26
Anna Karenina refuses to accompany Alexei Vronsky, declaring their planned departure will occur without her.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26 · tomorrow

Anna Vronsky

“You, but not I,” she said, turning round to him.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26
Alexei Vronsky leaves to obtain his mother’s signature to the deeds without pursuing Anna Karenina.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 26

Vronsky

Then without looking up at the window he settled himself in his usual attitude in the carriage, with his legs crossed, and drawing on his gloves he vanished round the corner.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27
Anna sends Vronsky a note asking him to return and let her explain.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27

Anna Vronsky

She sealed it up and gave it to the servant.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27
Anna learns Vronsky drove away without receiving her note.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27

Anna Vronsky Mihail

“We didn’t catch the count. The count had driven off on the lower city road.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27
Anna sends Darya Alexandrovna a telegram asking her to come immediately.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 27

Anna Darya Alexandrovna

And she wrote a telegram. “I absolutely must talk to you; come at once.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 28
Anna says goodbye to Dolly and Katerina, then leaves hurriedly.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 28

Anna Darya Alexandrovna Kitty

“So good-bye, Dolly.” And kissing Dolly and shaking hands with Kitty, Anna went out hurriedly.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 29
Vronsky telegraphs that he cannot come before ten o’clock.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 29

Anna Vronsky

“I can’t come before ten o’clock.—Vronsky,” she read.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 29
Anna leaves home for the railway station, intending never to return.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 29 · 📍 [[railway station]]

Anna

She knew she would never come back here again.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 30
Anna realizes their love is waning and they are irreversibly drifting apart.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 30

Anna Vronsky

My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that’s why we’re drifting apart.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 30
Count Vronsky expresses a desire for divorce and marriage to formalize their union.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 30 · yesterday

Vronsky Anna

He let that out yesterday—he wants divorce and marriage so as to burn his ships.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31
Anna Karenina receives Vronsky’s note saying he will be home at ten.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31

Anna Vronsky

I am very sorry your note did not reach me. I will be home at ten,” Vronsky had written carelessly....

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31
Anna Karenina decides to kill herself beneath an approaching train.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31

Anna

And all at once she thought of the man crushed by the train the day she had first met Vronsky, and she knew what she had to do.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31
Anna Karenina throws herself beneath the train and dies.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31

Anna

And exactly at the moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31
Anna Karenina’s life ends as the light is quenched forever.

PART SEVEN · Chapter 31

Anna

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1
Sergey Ivanovitch’s book is published and distributed among booksellers.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1 · last year

Sergey Ivanovitch

After the most conscientious revision the book had last year been published, and had been distributed among the booksellers.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1
A critical article ridicules Sergey Ivanovitch’s book, and public interest in it disappears.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1 · in the third month

Sergey Ivanovitch

At last in the third month a critical article appeared in a serious review.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1
Sergey Ivanovitch commits himself wholeheartedly to the Slavonic cause.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 1 · at this period

Sergey Ivanovitch

Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw himself into it heart and soul.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2
Vronsky departs with a military expedition, taking a squadron at his own expense.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Kursk line]] · that day

Vronsky

I never liked him. But this atones for a great deal. He’s not merely going himself, he’s taking a squadron at his own expense.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2
Veslovsky has recently married.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2 · only lately

Veslovsky

They’re both going. Veslovsky’s only lately married.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2
Dimer-Bartnyansky and Veslovsky are scheduled to set off.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 2 · Tomorrow

Dimer-Bartnyansky Veslovsky

Tomorrow we’re giving a dinner to two who’re setting off—Dimer-Bartnyansky from Petersburg and our Veslovsky, Grisha. They’re both going.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4
Vronsky attempted suicide by shooting himself.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4 · once already

Vronsky

You know, of course, that he had shot himself once already on her account,

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4
Vronsky was brought back at death’s door after rushing to the station.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4

Vronsky

When I ran into his room, he was beside himself—it was fearful to see him. He didn’t say a word, but galloped off there. I don’t know to this day what happened there, but he was brought back at death’s door.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4
Karenin took the deceased woman’s daughter.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4

Karenin

He has taken her daughter.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4
Vronsky abandoned his career and everything else.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4

Vronsky

He had thrown up everything, his career, me,

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4
Yashvin persuaded Vronsky to go to Servia, giving him a new interest.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Servia]]

Yashvin Vronsky

He came to see him and persuaded him to go. Now it’s an interest for him.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 5
Vronsky commits himself to joining the volunteers and risking his life against the Turks.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 5

Vronsky

My use as a man,” said Vronsky, “is that life’s worth nothing to me. And that I’ve enough bodily energy to cut my way into their ranks, and to trample on them or fall—I know that.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 6
Kitty breastfeeds hungry Mitya, and mother and child become calm.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Pokrovskoe]]

Kitty Mitya

At last, after despairing, breathless screaming, and vain sucking, things went right, and mother and child felt simultaneously soothed, and both subsided into calm.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 7
Dolly agreed to sell part of her property to pay Stepan Arkadyevitch’s debts.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 7 · A fortnight ago

Darya Alexandrovna Stepan Arkadyevitch

Dolly was in despair, she detested her husband, despised him, pitied him, resolved on a separation, resolved to refuse, but ended by agreeing to sell part of her property.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8
Levin’s childhood and youthful beliefs were imperceptibly replaced by new convictions.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8 · during the period from his twentieth to his thirty-fourth year

Levin

which had during the period from his twentieth to his thirty-fourth year imperceptibly replaced his childish and youthful beliefs

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8
Levin’s unresolved religious questions increasingly haunted his mind.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · of late, while he was staying in Moscow after his wife’s confinement

Levin

But of late, while he was staying in Moscow after his wife’s confinement, with nothing to do, the question that clamored for solution had more and more often, more and more insistently, haunted Levin’s mind.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8
Levin, despite being an unbeliever, fell into praying and briefly believed.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8 · during his wife’s confinement

Levin

He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8
Levin discovered that the good people nearest to him were believers.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 8 · since these questions had engrossed his mind

Levin Lvov Sergey Ivanovitch

One fact he had found out since these questions had engrossed his mind, was that he had been quite wrong in supposing from the recollections of the circle of his young days at college, that religion had outlived its day, and that it was now practically non-existent. All the people nearest to him who were good in their lives were believers. The old prince, and Lvov, whom he liked so much, and Sergey Ivanovitch, and all the women believed

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin became convinced that materialist theories could not provide a solution to life.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9 · Of late in Moscow and in the country

Levin

since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin thoroughly reread non-materialist philosophers while seeking an explanation of life.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9 · Of late in Moscow and in the country

Levin Plato Spinoza Kant Schelling Hegel Schopenhauer

he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin was initially impressed by Homiakov’s doctrine that divine truth belonged to the church.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9

Levin Homiakov

Levin read the second volume of Homiakov’s works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin abandoned Homiakov’s doctrine after discovering that Catholic and Orthodox churches denied each other’s authority.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9 · afterwards

Levin Homiakov

But afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two churches, in their very conception infallible, each deny the authority of the other, Homiakov’s doctrine of the church lost all its charm for him

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin entered a severe existential crisis, believing life impossible without knowing its meaning.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9 · All that spring

Levin

All that spring he was not himself, and went through fearful moments of horror.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin came close to suicide, hiding a cord and avoiding his gun to prevent killing himself.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9 · several times

Levin

And Levin, a happy father and husband, in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord that he might not be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun for fear of shooting himself.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9
Levin did not commit suicide and continued living.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 9

Levin

But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 11
Levin learns that Platon forgives debts and refuses to exploit others, living according to God’s way.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Pokrovskoe]]

Levin Platon

But Uncle Fokanitch” (so he called the old peasant Platon), “do you suppose he’d flay the skin off a man? Where there’s debt, he’ll let anyone off. And he’ll not wring the last penny out. He’s a man too.”

PART EIGHT · Chapter 12
Levin discovers a spiritual purpose, declaring that he must live for God and his soul.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 12

Levin

I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 12
Levin had married and subsequently experienced many joys and happiness.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 12

Levin

but had gone on living, thinking, and feeling, and had even at that very time married, and had had many joys and had been happy

PART EIGHT · Chapter 13
Levin recognizes his faith in God and receives joyful spiritual peace.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 13

Levin

“Can this be faith?” he thought, afraid to believe in his happiness.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 14
Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov arrive at Levin’s home for a visit.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 14

Levin Sergey Ivanovitch Katavasov

Getting out of the trap and greeting his brother and Katavasov, Levin asked about his wife.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 14
Levin realizes his newly discovered spiritual peace remains intact beneath life’s ordinary distractions.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 14

Levin

But the same instant, going back to his mood, he felt with delight that something new and important had happened to him.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 15
Vronsky undertakes to lead a squadron to Servia at his own expense.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Servia]]

Vronsky

with Vronsky! He’s going to Servia.” “And not alone; he’s taking a squadron out with him at his own expense,

PART EIGHT · Chapter 16
Stepan Arkadyevitch holds a commission committee post paying eight thousand roubles.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 16 · now

Stepan Arkadyevitch

He’s got a place now on the committee of a commission and something or other, I don’t remember. Only there’s nothing to do in it—why, Dolly, it’s no secret!—and a salary of eight thousand.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 17
Levin witnesses the oak tree fall during the storm, fearing it has struck Katerina Alexandrovna and Mitya.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[copse]]

Levin

when, moving more and more rapidly, the oak tree vanished behind the other trees, and he heard the crash of the great tree falling upon the others.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 17
Levin finds Katerina Alexandrovna and Mitya safe after the storm; Mitya is unharmed and asleep.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 17 · 📍 [[copse]]

Levin Kitty Mitya

Mitya was unharmed, dry, and still fast asleep.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 18
Mitya gives unmistakable signs of recognizing his friends.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 18 · 📍 [[nursery]] · on that day

Mitya

Mitya had on that day given unmistakable, incontestable signs of recognizing all his friends.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 18
Levin realizes that he loves Mitya after being frightened during the storm.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 18 · 📍 [[nursery]] · Today

Levin Mitya

Today, after that fright during the storm, I understand how I love him.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 19
Levin finds faith, giving his life a positive meaning grounded in goodness.

PART EIGHT · Chapter 19 · 📍 [[terrace]]

Levin

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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