Anna Karenina

Œ::For the former M/S Anna Karenina, see M/S Regina Baltica Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy that was first published in 1877. The novel initially appeared serially in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik ("Russian Messenger"), but Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment. Consequently, the ...

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The novel is depicted in eight parts. Part 1 introduces the character Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky ("Stiva"), a civil servant who has been unfaithful to his wife Darya Alexandrovna ("Dolly"). Stiva's affair shows an amorous personality which he cannot seem to suppress. Thus, Anna Karenina, Stiva's married sister, is summoned from St. Petersburg by Stiva in order to persuade Dolly not to leave him. Upon arriving at Moscow, a railway worker accidentally falls in front of a train and is killed—foreshadowing Anna's own demise. Me ...

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Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. Suicide is viewed in highly varying ways among the cultures, religions, legal and social systems of the world. It is considered a sin or immoral act in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful or hopeless situations. Persons attempting or dy ...

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The theme of adultery features in a wide range of literature through the ages. This is hardly surprising, as the fact of adultery has been a part of the human existence for as long as there has been marriage. As a theme it automatically brings its own conflict, between the people concerned and between sexual desires and a sense of loyalty; it brings intense emotions into the foreground, and has consequences for all concerned. As marriage and family are often regarded as basis of society a story of adultery often shows the conflict b ...

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War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir], in original orthography Война и миръ) is an epic Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. The Russian words for "peace" (pre-1918: миръ) and "world" (pre-1918: міръ) are homonym ...

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Anna can refer to a variety of things. Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. Anna - Concepts. annum: in Latin, anne is the vocative form of the second declension noun annus, meaning "year" Ana Anna - Names. Anna: It is a name for females. Ann: It is a name for females. Anne: It is a name for females. Hanne: It is a name fo ...

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Tolstoy was one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature. His most famous works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many shorter works, including the novellas The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists while Gustave Flaubert gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Anton Chekhov, who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate, wrote: "When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it ...

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The ship was built in 1980 in the Wärtsila shipyards in Turku, Finland for the Finnish company Viking Line and was used on lines connecting Finland with Sweden. Viking Line operated the ship as M/S Viking Song, it was the sistership of the M/S Viking Saga which was mostly destroyed in a fire in 1990 while operated by the Sally Cruise line under the name of M/S Sally Albatross. Though it was damaged beyond repair, parts were salvaged and reused in this ship's replacement, which today is ope ...

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Vrubel was born into a lawyer's family and graduated from the Law Faculty of St Petersburg University in 1880. Next year he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under direction of Pavel Tchistyakov. Even in his earliest works, he exhibited striking talent for drawing and highly idiosyncratic outlook. Although he still relished academic monumentality, he would later develop a penchant for fr ...

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Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Vrubel - Early life, Mikhail Vrubel - Controversial fame, Mikhail Vrubel - Decline, Mikhail Vrubel - Works

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - The beginning. The name combines those of three film production companies which merged in April, 1924: Metro Pictures Corporation (formed in 1916), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (1918). M-G-M was controlled by Loews, Inc., the vaudeville-and-movie theater chain founded by Marcus Loew in 1904. Because of his success as an independent producer, Louis B. Mayer was made head of the studio, with Harry Rapf and the twenty-five year old "boy wonder" Irving Thalber ...

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Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen. A doctor, Charles Bovary, marries a beautiful farm girl, Emma. She is filled with a desire for luxury and romance, which she gets from reading popular novels. Charles means well, but is boring and clumsy. When Emma gets pregnant and eventually gives birth to a daughter, she believes her life is virtually over. Charles decides that Emma needs a change of scenery, and moves from the village of Tostes into an equally stultifying village, Yonville. The ...

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Novel - Traditions of Prose Fiction: The Ancient World. As Pierre Daniel Huet noted in 1670, the tradition of epic works went back as far as Virgil and Homer. The regular format was verse, suiting the purpose of tradition in a culture of oral performances. Today, we see this tradition as going back even further, to the epic of Gilgamesh. It is more difficult to speak of the influence of the shorter performances of regular storytelling on the medieval traditions which led to the ...

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Masterpiece Theatre is best known for presenting adaptations of famous novels and biographies into episodic TV miniseries, but it also shows original television dramas. Programs presented on the show include Elizabeth R, House of Cards, I, Claudius, Jeeves and Wooster, The Jewel in the Crown, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Traffik, Upstairs, Downstairs, and many others, including adaptations of Anna Karenina, Cakes and Ale, Cold Comfort Farm, Jude the Obscure, Madame Bovary, M ...

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Masterpiece Theatre, Masterpiece Theatre - Oeuvre, Masterpiece Theatre - Changes for 2004, Masterpiece Theatre - Parodies

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The Lord of the Rings - The Lord of the Rings on radio. The BBC produced a 13-part radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings in 1956, and a 6-part version of The Hobbit in 1966. It is uncertain whether Tolkien ever heard either series. No recording of the 1956 series is known to exist, but The Hobbit has survived. It is a very faithful adaptation, incorporating some passing references ...

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According to a much later genealogical fable, Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of distinguished ancestory". Indris allegedly came from the Holy Roman Empire to Chernigov, accompanied by his sons Litvinos and Zimonten and a force of 3000 men (a derivative of the similar fable utilised by Lithuanian nobles from the 16th century, giving homage to the Tolstoys' Lithuan ...

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Tolstoy, Tolstoy - The Tolstoys in Russian politics, Tolstoy - The Tolstoys in the Napoleonic wars, Tolstoy - The Tolstoys in high society, Tolstoy - The Tolstoys in Russian literature, Tolstoy - People, Tolstoy - Places

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This synopsis is based on the television version of the story. A pre-human skull is discovered while building works are taking place in the fictional Hobbs Lane — formerly Hob's Lane, from an old name for the Devil. (In the film version the location of the building works is moved to the also fictional 'Hobbs End' tube station.) Dr Matthew Roney, a palaeontologist, examines the recovered remains, which are many thousands of years old, and reconstructs a dwarf-like humanoid with an unusually large brain volume, which he believe ...

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Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass and the Pit - Background, Quatermass and the Pit - Plot, Quatermass and the Pit - Cast and crew, Quatermass and the Pit - Film sequels and DVD, Quatermass and the Pit - Parody

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The majestic appearance of St. Petersburg is achieved through a variety of architectural details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, gives the city a unique and striking ambience. These bodies of wate ...

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Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities

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The Novodevichy Convent was founded in 1524 by Grand Prince Vasili III in commemoration of the conquest of Smolensk in 1514. It was built as a fortress at a curve of the Moskva River and became an important part of the southern defensive belt of the capital, which had already included a number of other monasteries. Upon its founding, the Novodevichy Convent was granted 3,000 rubles and the villages of Akhabinevo and Troparevo. Ivan the Terrible woul ...

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Novodevichy Convent, Novodevichy Convent - Muscovite period, Novodevichy Convent - Imperial period, Novodevichy Convent - Soviet period and beyond, Novodevichy Convent - Monuments, Novodevichy Convent - Necropolis, Novodevichy Convent - External link

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Many suicidal people participate in suicidal activities which do not result in death. These activities fall under the designation attempted suicide or parasuicide. Generally, those with a history of such attempts are almost 23 times more likely to eventually end their own lives than those without.[2] Sometimes, a person will make actions resembling suicide attempts while not being fully committed, or in a deliberate attempt to have ...

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Suicide, Suicide - The terminology and its implications, Suicide - Medical views on suicide, Suicide - Suicide as a form of defiance and protest, Suicide - Arguments for suicide and euthanasia, Suicide - Epidemiology, Suicide - Combination of homicide and suicide, Suicide - Attempted suicide and parasuicide, Suicide - Distinction between suicide and attempted suicide, Suicide - Suicide in literature, Suicide - Sources

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