3 plots of Russian literature borrowed from real life

Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina in the 2012 movie by Joe Wright

Characters in Russian literature often like to settle accounts with their own life before Anna Karenina did. However, they also preferred other ways to part with reality. 

"Tolstoy himself would not have thought of such a scene. It was too radical for those times," believes writer and literary critic Pavel Basinsky. Where does such a plo