Episode list

Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky ("Stiva") is a civil servant who has been unfaithful to his wife Darya Alexandrovna ("Dolly"). Anna Karenina, Stiva's sister, persuades Dolly not to leave him. Meanwhile, Stiva's childhood friend Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin, a serious young aristocratic landowner who actually lives on and manages his estate, arrives in Moscow to offer marriage to Dolly's sister Katerina Alexandrovna Shcherbatsky ("Kitty"). Kitty turns him down, as she is expecting an offer from army officer Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky.