In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, adultery shakes the Oblonsky household, when Dolly discovers husband Stiva's affair with a former governess. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to help keep the Russian family together. Heroine Anna takes her own lover, Count Vronsky, which introduces a downward spiral in her marriage to Karenin and, ultimately, in her union with Vronsky. Anna's life ends in suicide. In contrast, Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical hero, Levin, finds salvation in faith.
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