列夫·托尔斯泰(1828-1910)，俄国文豪，《安娜·卡列尼娜》是他的主要作品之一。

　　贵族妇女安娜追求爱情幸福，却在卡列宁的虚伪、冷漠和弗龙斯基的自私面前碰得头破血流，最终落得卧轨自杀、陈尸车站的下场。庄园主莱温反对土地私有制，抵制资本主义制度，同情贫苦农民，却又无法摆脱贵族习气而陷入无法解脱的矛盾之中。矛盾的时期、矛盾的制度、矛盾的人物、矛盾的心理，使全书在矛盾的漩涡中颠簸。这部小说深受我国读者喜爱，它是新旧交替时期紧张惶恐的俄国社会的写照。

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production.