Anne Karenina

Writer:Leo Tolstoy

Count Leo Tolstoy lived from 1828-1910 in Russia. He studied languages, law, and then joined the army and actually served in a regiment in the Crimean war. Following the war, he wrote his first collection of stories. He was interested in the education of peasant children, and set up his own school. He had thirteen children of his own! Later in life he wrote and passed out pamphlets rejecting the concepts of church and state, and private property. He was so radical he was excommunicated in 1901. He is also the author of “War and Peace”. Some consider “Anna Karenina” to be the world’s greatest novel.