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5 unusual facts about Anna Karenina


Maria Abashova

Maria excelled and became acknowledged by critics in Anna's part in Anna Karenina ballet of Eifman Ballet.

National Theatre in Belgrade

One of the titles national Ballet is proud the most is Anna Karenina by Russian composer Schedrin, as well as The Legend from Ohrid by Serbian composer S. Hristic.

Sophia Tolstaya

In Anna Karenina, 34 year-old Constantine Levin, a semi-autobiographical character behaves similarly, asking his 19 year old fiancée Kitty to read his diaries and learn of his past transgressions.

Tula, Russia

It was here that Tolstoy wrote his celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Vitebsky railway station

In a departure from normal practice of the Soviet years, the Vitebsk station preserved its elevated train shed, five platforms and luggage elevators almost intact, making it an ideal location for filming Soviet adaptations of Anna Karenina, Sherlock Holmes stories, and other 19th-century classics.


Alicia Vikander

Vikander performed in the English language film adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012), and added Danish to her repertoire while working on the Nikolaj Arcel feature A Royal Affair (2012).

Caroline Langrishe

The next year, aged 18, she played the role of Kitty in the BBC1 adaptation of Anna Karenina, before working in the theatre with Peter Gill.

Fernando Siro

Siro was also sctive in the theatre, playing over 60 roles in his career, notably in Leo Tolstoi's Anna Karenina, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, and Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.

Kadhaprasangam

William Shakespeare's Othello, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Kumaran Asan's Karuna, Vallathol Narayana Menon’s Magdalana Mariyam, Changampuzha Krishna Pillai's Ramanan, Thirunalloor Karunakaran's Rani and Vayalar Ramavarma's Aaayisha were some of the literary classics thus successfully adapted for Kadhaprasangam.

Souvenir de Florence

Excerpts from the score were used in the 2005 ballet Anna Karenina, choreographed by Boris Eifman.

Vienna State Ballet

There were also revivals of The Sleeping Beauty in the version by Peter Wright; Anna Karenina by Boris Eifman; Don Quixote by Rudolf Nureyev; choreography by Balanchine, Robbins, Neumeier, Tharp, and Forsythe; a Nureyev Gala; and the repertoire pieces Le Concours by Maurice Béjart and Marie Antoinette by Patrick de Bana.

Women in the Victorian era

Adulteresses met tragic ends in novels such as Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, while in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy depicts a heroine punished by her community for losing her virginity before marriage (the novel is deliberately ambiguous as to whether the encounter was consensual of a rape).


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