After several days hovering between life and death Vronsky recovers. Vronsky is overcome with self-disgust and the realisation that if Anna lives, he should not come between her and her forgiving husband. Overwhelmed by grief, he forgives her completely. Karenin hurries back from Moscow to find her delirious. In giving birth to Vronsky's daughter, Anna become ill with puerperal fever. When he asks Anna to behave with propriety in public, she breaks down and confirms his worst fears. Karenin buries himself in work and becomes cold and unfeeling towards Seriozha. Anna is reluctant, she fears that she will lose her son, Seriozha, but Vronsky does not understand her worries.Ĥ. When she becomes pregnant, Vronsky insists that Karenin is informed and a divorce sought. After holding out for a year, Anna takes Vronsky as her lover. Karenin warns Anna against embarking on an affair with Vronsky, but she mocks him and their marriage becomes even more of a sham. Anna tries to suppress her feelings for Vronsky, but at a meeting in the house of the socialite Princess Betsy, his passion for her becomes so obvious that all the rumours are redoubled. Soon Anna and Vronsky are the subject of malicious gossip in upper-class circles. Arriving at the station, Anna is met by her sarcastic husband Karenin, who snubs Vronsky. She tries to put him off but her efforts are in vain, as he can read the love in her eyes. On the train back to Petersburg, Anna discovers that Vronsky has followed her. Peace is restored in the household, but Anna decides to return to her husband and son in Petersburg immediately, afraid of the attraction she feel for Vronsky.Ģ. On seeing on her sister-in-law, Dolly, Anne argues her to forgive Stiva's infidelity. This strengthens the impression he has made on Anna.

When a railway worker is run over by a train, Vronsky gives his widow 200 roubles. Going to Moscow to help to save her brother Stiva's marriage, Anna travels in the same compartment as Countess Vronsky and so meets her son, the dashing Count Vronsky. Russian high society will not forgive their breach of convention and ultimately, ostracised and humiliated, Anna seeks only oblivion.ġ. Their love, which flouts the rigid laws of marriage, proves disastrous. Handsome and sensual, Vronsky is everything Anna's dry, legalistic husband is not.

Anna is sensitive, generous, warm-hearted and intelligent, but all her virtues count for nothing when she is overcome by passionate love for Count Vronsky. Towering over the other characters, Tolstoy's beautiful tragic heroine, Anna Karenina, dominates the action of the great book which bears her name.

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