Anna Karenina Volume 1-2

In the novel «Anna Karenina», through the stories of several families, both happy and unhappy, Leo Tolstoy speaks of love, passion, the meaning of life, and the most delicate movements of the human soul. It seems that in this book... the world classic understood people more than they understand themselves. In this edition, the novel is reproduced with enchanting and expressive illustrations by the people's artist of the USSR, Orest Vereysky. The artist dedicated almost four years to illustrating «Anna Karenina». «Those were happy years, — he recalled. — I was constantly overcome by that irresistible excitement, which, without fearing loud words, I would like to call a reverent awe. Such a feeling, of course, could not in itself predetermine success… but it undoubtedly