Which Russian author wrote 'Anna Karenina'?

Leo Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina. The novel follows Anna, a married aristocrat whose affair with Count Vronsky collides with the rigid social expectations of nineteenth-century Russian society.

Anna Karenina first appeared in serial installments from 1875 to 1877, with the complete book published in 1878. Tolstoy set the story against a Russia transformed by railways, industrial growth, legal reforms, and the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. These changes shape the characters’ debates about marriage, work, land, politics, and social class.

The novel has a major parallel storyline involving Konstantin Levin, a landowner searching for a meaningful way to live. His relationship with Kitty provides a contrast to Anna’s increasingly destructive isolation. Readers sometimes mistake the author for Dostoevsky or Pushkin because all three are central Russian literary figures, but Tolstoy alone wrote Anna Karenina.