Anna Karenina, Part 5, Chapter 22 summary

What happens

1. Countess Lidia Ivanovna visits Alexey Alexandrovitch in despair and urges him to find strength in divine love.
2. He describes the humiliation of household duties and his distress at his son's questioning looks.
3. She offers to manage his household, prays, and gains his grateful acceptance of her religious counsel.
4. She tells the frightened Seryozha that his mother is dead and presents his father as saintly.
5. Korney quietly corrects her impractical arrangements and takes effective control of the household.
6. Alexey Alexandrovitch embraces religious certainty to feel above those who look down on him, though he senses its shallowness.

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