"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

The character of Anna Karenina in Tolstoy's work was actually inspired in part by another Russian writer's daughter – that of poet Alexander Pushkin. Tolstoy met Maria Gartung at a party and was struck by her intellect and beauty, which was channeled into the aristocratic Anna.

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