A young woman in dark velvet, fur and leather gloves looks down at us from an open carriage on a winter street in St Petersburg. Kramskoi, a leader of the Peredvizhniki, never named her, and early critics took her for a courtesan. The mystery made her famous, and she has often stood in for Anna Karenina on book covers.
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The setting is the Anichkov Bridge, but the city behind her dissolves into pale, frosty haze, so her dark figure fills the picture.
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