# Anna Karenina is completed as a dated 1870s serial-and-book instrument

Date: 1877

## The fact

In the 1870s [Tolstoy](/people/leo-tolstoy) serialised Anna Karenina, conventionally completed in 1877. The dated public instrument is that book. It is not a later stage adaptation and not a recovered civil-registry of any one heroine.

It is one event.

## Context

Tolstoy.ru and Gutenberg independently make the text public. The novel’s adultery plot is fiction; it is not stored here as a private allegation against a living person. Later school editions are other people’s instruments.

Leo Tolstoy’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 1828–1910. Surviving public files are later museum pages, collected-works sites, library catalogues, and encyclopedias. Tolstoy did not typeset those later pages.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Tolstoy.ru and Project Gutenberg independently describe Anna Karenina as a 1870s completed work.

Official or archival record: Tolstoy.ru — collected works and estate portal (https://tolstoy.ru/; State Tolstoy Museum / Tolstoy.ru).

## Significance

Knowledge-access path. High confidence on the 1870s print.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Anna Karenina was completed in the 1870s, conventionally 1877. Not established: a unique divorce-law coefficient from the tale.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Leo Tolstoy.

They are not a public rating.

Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A serial is not a statute. Keep the 1870s book off the 1901 Synod row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A serial is not a statute. Keep the 1870s book off the 1901 Synod row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.

## People

- Leo Tolstoy: https://factrail.ai/people/leo-tolstoy

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399
- https://tolstoy.ru/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-anna-karenina-1877