《安娜·卡列宁娜》是俄罗斯文学泰斗托尔斯泰著名的作品之一，通过女主人公安娜追求爱情的悲剧，以及列文对改革的思考和探索，描绘出19世纪末20世纪初俄罗斯从莫斯科到乡村的社会全景图，是一部经典百科全书式作品。故事通过中心人物安娜·卡列宁娜与其丈夫卡列宁、情夫伏伦斯基的关系，通过其哥哥奥勃隆斯基的关系，把安娜的生活圈子和另一个圈子联系起来，组成一个上百个人物的体系。作家利用这个庞大的体系所反映的人与人之间的关系，生动而深刻地写出十九世纪中叶俄罗斯资本主义刚刚兴起时期的社会面貌，提出了这个历史时期俄罗斯所存在的政治、经济、宗教、道德、教育、妇女、儿童、城市、农村等一系列重大问题，表达出作家作为一个富有正义感的贵族知识分子的许多观点。（Anna Karenina is one of the famous works of the Russian literary giant, Tolstoy. It depicts the social panorama of Russia from Moscow to the countryside from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century through the tragedy of the heroine, Anna, who pursued her love and Levin’s thinking and exploration of reform. It is a classic encyclopedic work. The story associates Anna’s life circle with another circle through the relationship between the central person, Anna Karenina and her husband, Karenin, and her lover, Vronsky, and the relationship of her elder brother, Oblonsky, so as to form a system of more than one hundred people. The writer uses the relationships among people reflected by the huge system to vividly and profoundly write about the social appearance of the mid-nineteenth century when the Russian capitalism just rose, put forward a series of major issues on politics, economy, religion, morality, education, women, children, city and countryside of Russia in the historical period and express many viewpoints of the writer as a aristocratic intellectual with the sense of justice.）