Anna Karenina (; ) is a
novel by the Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical
The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor
Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in
Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878.