Tolstoy's Spiritual Crisis

Nabokov ranked Tolstoy number one in Russian literature. It took him eight years to write Anna Karenina, same with War and Peace. He abandoned a work on Peter the Great after many years in order to embark upon Anna Karenina. In this book he renounces almost all of his work,. elsewhere he has specifically renounced and denounced Anna Karenina as an immoral work.