A stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, was scheduled to be performed at the National Academic Drama Theatre on 28 February. The famous novel has been adapted into a stage play by N.Purevdagva and directed by State Honoured Artist N.Naranbaatar. However, the theatre has suspended the opening of the play due to the coronavirus situation.

Anna Karenina is one of the greatest achievements in world literature. It is the story of a married woman, burdened by the shackles of an unhappy marriage, her affair with a dashing army officer, the crushing morals of Russian high society and the tragic repercussions. The novel was first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel – after already having written “War and Peace”.

The dramatisation will be top on the play list, once the Mongolian quarantine measures are lifted.