ANNA KARENINA, LAST PART, 1877, PUBLISHED SEPARATELY AT TOLSTOY'S EXPENSE. RARE.

Description: THIS BOOK IS EXCEEDINGLY RARE WITH NO EXAMPLES FOUND FOR SALE. A COLLECTOR'S COPY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION: FIRST EDITION of "ANNA KARENINA" (in Russian) by Lev Tolstoy - PART 8 and LAST VOLUME - MOSCOW 1877 This Epilogue was published as a separate booklet in July 1877 before it appeared, together with the first seven sections,in book form in January 1878 Hence, this book is the FIRST book edition of the novel AND with different ending, NOT as in the regular novel.Anna Karenina" began to be printed in parts in the magazine "Russian Herald" in 1875. In the April 1877, the seventh part was published, ending with the death of Karenina, with the note: "The end follows", but the editor of the magazineMikhail Katkov ⁠ , refused to publish the eighth part, disagreeing with Tolstoy's negative attitude, expressed by him in the epilogue, to the voluntary movement in favor of the Serbs in the Balkan (Katkov was a supporter of the imminent war and Tolstoy was forced to publish at his expense the finale as a separate book in a small circulation of:about 6000 copies, with the following announcement on the first page "The last part of Anna Karenina is published here as a separate edition, and not in the Russkiy Vestnik, because the editors of this journal did not want to print this part without some exceptions, to which the author did not agree" WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE RAREST COPY, EXCEEDINGLY SOUGHT AFTER BY BOOK COLLECTORS, PUBLISHED SEPARATELY AT TOLSTOY'S EXPENSE BY ANOTHER PUBLISHER. We locate no copies at auctions for decades, and only one copy is recorded in OCLC (WORLD CATALOGUE but as digital so NO physical copy exists anywhere else apart Russia and this copy indeed has a Russian stamp on its pastedown Extremely important and very scarce book. The many shortened first name signatures (Alex) appearing in the book have not been authenticated; They could be of Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Lev Tolstoy. She was born in 1884, in Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral estate of the Tolstoy family. Her mother, named Sofia Andreevna Bers, was the literary secretary for Leo Tolstoy, and made Alexandra an assistant to her writer father. Alexandra managed most of the secretarial work for Leo Tolstoy during his later years. She became the keeper of the Tolstoy archive after the writer's death in 1910.

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