

In contrast, very few educated English speakers have read the Russian classics in the original and, until recent years, they have largely depended on two translations, one by the Englishwoman Constance Garnett and the other by the English couple Louise and Aylmer Maude, made respectively in 19. Tolstoy, of course, says nothing about a translation-educated Russians knew English as well as French. Petersburg, and takes out an uncut English novel, probably one by Trollope judging from references to fox hunting and Parliament. In Anna Karenina, the day after the fateful ball, resolved to forget Vronsky and resume her peaceful life with her son and husband (“my life will go on in the old way, all nice and as usual”), Anna settles herself in her compartment in the overnight train from Moscow to St.

Vivien Leigh in Julien Duvivier’s adaptation of Anna Karenina, 1948
