Love (1927)
1/10
Ruined Tolstoy's book
20 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
All the psychological complexity of the story was eliminated in the film and it became a trite love story.

The History of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev and Elena Denisyeva inspired Tolstoy to develop the relationship between Anna and vronsky The dramatic love story of Tyutchev is the young mistress Elena Denisyeva, a pupil of the institute where Tyutchev's daughters studied. To meet with her, the poet rented a separate apartment and, when the secret connection became apparent, he practically created a second family. For 14 years, Tyutchev, as it already happened once, was torn between two beloved women - a legal and "civil" spouse - unsuccessfully tried to make peace with the first and could not part with the second. But Elena suffered from this destructive passion much more: her father, friends abandoned her, it was possible to forget about the maid of honor's career - all doors were closed to her from now on.

Under the yoke of human disapproval, Denisyeva developed morbid irritability and irascibility. She came to religion but could not reconcile its principles with her position. Elena Tyutcheva loved passionately, madly and demandingly, so she suffered when her lover went weeks without visiting her.

All jealousy, Anna's insecurities that were inspired by Elena Denisyeva, were eliminated and Anna became a character without depth.

All of Tolstoy's sophisticated prose has been replaced by a coarse romanticism.
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