Anna Karenina

In the novel "Anna Karenina," through the stories of several families, both happy and unhappy, Leo Tolstoy tells of love, passion, the meaning of life, and the subtle 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 expressive illustrations by the people's artist of the USSR, Orest Vereysky. The artist devoted almost four years to the illustration of "Anna Karenina." "These were happy years," he recalled. "I was constantly filled with that irresistible excitement, which, without fearing grand words, I want to call reverent awe. Such a feeling could not, of course, predetermine success by itself... but it certainly protected against the search for an easy path. And the work was a joy."