When a woman encounters this character riding a horse on a country road, she notices this character’s new habit of narrowing her eyes when she thinks. A passage describing the candle by which this character read “that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, griefs and evils” mentions her recurring nightmare of a peasant “working over some iron.” While looking at a painting, this character admires the pity in the face of Jesus standing next to Pontius Pilate. A lie that this character died is told to her son by the pious Countess (*) Lydia. After this character nearly dies giving birth, her lover shoots himself in the chest, but he recovers and signs up for a position in Tashkent. This character confesses her infidelity after her lover breaks the back of his horse Frou-Frou during a race. For 10 points, name this character who has an affair with Count Vronsky in a novel by Leo Tolstoy. ■END■
ANSWER: Anna Karenina [or Anna Arkadyevna Karenina; accept either underlined portion]
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