The ending was stupid.
Anna's inspiration inspired a real history and it was this history that inspired Tolstoy to write Anna Karenina. If that history we would never have Anna Karenina.
On January 4, 1872, at 7 pm, an unknown, well-dressed young woman, arriving at the Yasenki Moscow-Kursk railway in Krapivensky County, climbed onto the tracks at the time of the passing of freight train number 77, blessed if and threw itself on the tracks under the train, and was cut in half. Tolstoy and his wife Sofia knew the "young unknown person" from the news. It was Anna Stepanovna Pirogova, the thirty-five-year-old lover and governess of one of Tolstoy's closest neighbors, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bibikov, a forty-nine-year-old landowner and widower. Bibikov lived with his mistress, but started to prefer the family's German nanny, whom he wanted to marry. When Anna Stepanovna was informed, she ran on her way in pain and despair with some clothes on, and sped around the next three days out of her own with sadness. Then she threw herself in front of a freight train at Yasenki station.
On January 4, 1872, at 7 pm, an unknown, well-dressed young woman, arriving at the Yasenki Moscow-Kursk railway in Krapivensky County, climbed onto the tracks at the time of the passing of freight train number 77, blessed if and threw itself on the tracks under the train, and was cut in half. Tolstoy and his wife Sofia knew the "young unknown person" from the news. It was Anna Stepanovna Pirogova, the thirty-five-year-old lover and governess of one of Tolstoy's closest neighbors, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bibikov, a forty-nine-year-old landowner and widower. Bibikov lived with his mistress, but started to prefer the family's German nanny, whom he wanted to marry. When Anna Stepanovna was informed, she ran on her way in pain and despair with some clothes on, and sped around the next three days out of her own with sadness. Then she threw herself in front of a freight train at Yasenki station.