How does Anna Karenina commit suicide in the novel by Tolstoy?
Erast Fandorin clear reference to Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". A more subtle allusion exists to Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", as the novel "The Winter Queen" starts with a suicide in 1876, exactly the same year in which Anna throws herself under a train. Another allusion to Anna Karenina can be found in "The Jack of Spades", where Fandorin's current girlfriend, who is married to another man, has the same patronymic (Arkadievna) as Anna Karenina herself. In "Murder on the Leviathan", one of the newspaper fragments is signed by G. du Roy, an allusion to the journalist Georges Duroy from Guy
Anna Karenina has been adapted into various media including opera, film, television, ballet, and radio drama. The first film adaptation was released in 1911 but has not survived. Anna Karenina Anna Karenina () is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider "Anna Karenina" the greatest work of literature ever written, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical "The Russian Messenger." A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is