Tolstoy's "errors" in "Anna Karenina"'

[A.Smith]

Dear colleagues,

In response to the fascinating and very informative discussion of Tolstoy's
"errors" and discrepancies manifested in "Anna Karenina", I would like to
draw your attention to Dmitrii Likhachev's comment regards the novel. Thus
in his essay "L. Tolstoy" Likhachev writes: "Anna Karenina, kogda ee ishchet
v teatre Vronskii, nakhoditsia v piatom benuare. Skandal- kniazhna Varvara.
Anna postukivaet veerom po KRASNOMU barkhatu. Znachit, eto ne peterburgskii
Mariinskii teatr, a Bol'shoi teatr v Moskve. Poslednii imeet krasnuiu
obivku. Mariinskii vsegda imel golubuiu. A, mozhet byt', Lev Tolstoy ne znal
Peterburga?" (D.S. Likhachev "Razdum'ia o Rossii", Sankt-Peterburg, "logos',
1999, p.409)

Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)

Senior Lecturer in Russian
School of Languages and Cultures
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

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