

It starts at the house of Prince Stepan "Stiva" Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen) in Moscow. The film begins in 1874 at the height of Imperial Russia. Vronsky later tells Anna that he must be wherever she goes. At a ball that night, Kitty attempts to dance with Vronsky, but he dances with Anna, leaving Kitty heartbroken. Vronsky is seen giving a large sum of money to other railroad workers for the deceased's family. After a railway worker is killed in an accident at the station, Anna asks if anything can be done for his family. Once there, Anna meets Vronsky himself and they have mutual attraction. On the train to Moscow, Anna meets Vronsky's mother, Countess Vronskaya, facing scandal for her own infidelity. Nikolai suggests that Levin marry one of the peasants on his estate. Levin meets with his elder brother, Nikolai, who has given up his inheritance and taken a prostitute named Masha as his wife. However, Kitty declines as she hopes to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy cavalry officer. Levin professes his love for Stiva's sister-in-law, Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna, and Stiva encourages him to propose. Stiva meets his old friend Konstantin Levin, a wealthy land owner and aristocrat who is looked down upon by Moscow's elite for preferring country life to city life. Petersburg with her older husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and their son, Sergei "Seryozha" Alexeyich Karenin, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive Stiva. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, a well-off and well-liked socialite living in St. In 1874 Russian Empire, Prince Stephan "Stiva" Oblonsky's wife, Princess Darya "Dolly," banishes her husband from their home due to his infidelity.
