Resources

Commentary

A Comparison of the Tolstoy's Russian Text, Garnett's Translation, and Nabokov's Notes

Robert L. Jackson: "Breaking the Moral Barrier: Anna Karenina’s Night Train to St. Petersburg" (2003) [Open Access]

Nabokov's Railway Commentary on Anna Karenina, from Lectures on Russian Literature

Supplemental Media

Nineteenth-Century Map of the Nikolaevskaia Railroad (JPG)

Nabokov's sketch of the train-car layout (JPG)

Nabokov's sketch juxtaposed with Series R 1st class passenger car diagram (JPG)

Nabokov's sketch juxtaposed with Series R 1st class passenger car diagram, with Nabokov's labels inserted (JPG)

Series K Engine (diagram), which could have plausibly been the locomotive that pulled Anna's train (JPG), courtesy Sergei Kiselev

Series K Engine (photo) (JPG), courtesy Sergei Kiselev

Train car scene from 1967 Mosfilm production (USSR) of Anna Karenina, with Tatiana Samoilova as Anna (MP4)