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Love stories of Russia

The homeland of great literary passions: Anna Karenina, who gave everything for love and was destroyed by the hypocrisy of an unforgiving society.

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The homeland of great literary passions: Anna Karenina, who gave everything for love and was destroyed by the hypocrisy of an unforgiving society.

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Anna Karenina & Vronsky
Russia · Tolstoy, 1877

Anna Karenina & Vronsky

The passion society would not forgive

The married aristocrat Anna who abandons everything for Count Vronsky and is destroyed by the hypocrisy of a Russian society that tolerated male infidelity but not hers.

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Yuri & Lara
Russia · Pasternak, 1957

Yuri & Lara

A love between the snow and the revolution

The doctor-poet Yuri Zhivago and Lara, his great love, swept apart again and again by the civil war and the Russian Revolution.

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Onegin & Tatiana
Russia · Pushkin, 1833

Onegin & Tatiana

He refused love and regretted it forever

The jaded dandy Onegin spurns the love letter of young Tatiana; years later, when she is a married grande dame, he loves her desperately and is rejected in turn.

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What are the great Russian love stories?

Some of the greatest are Anna Karenina & Vronsky, Yuri & Lara, Onegin & Tatiana.

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