列夫·托爾斯泰(1828～1910)，俄羅斯文學大師。他以自己一生的辛勤創作，登上瞭當時歐洲批判現實主義文學的高峰，在世界文學中占有重要的地位。他描繪瞭俄羅斯民眾廣闊的生活場景，被稱為“俄國革命的一麵鏡子”。代錶作為《戰爭與和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《復活》。

草嬰，原名盛峻峰，著名學者、翻譯傢。草嬰先生係統地翻譯瞭列夫·托爾斯泰全部小說作品，包括三個長篇（《戰爭與和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《復活》）、六十多個中短篇和自傳體小說。

‘All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.