Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina paints rural Russian estates as lands of gaiety and lightheartedness in comparison to a drab urban lifestyle, and extends this dichotomy to both the peasants and the aristocracy. How accurate of a view is this?
by /u/shotpun in /r/AskHistorians
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