This article examines the series of events in the artistic structure of the novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy in the context of the concept of case, which, as the basic symbol, becomes the focus of the semantic content of the novel. Separate episodes with casual events line up in structural episodes of storylines of the Tolstoy”™s work. The symbolic concentration of the semantic content of case receives its transcription in cumulatively built episodes. The semantic content of the symbolically interpreted image of case in a number of random events is represented by the Russian thinker of the nineteenth century Leo Tolstoy as something that leads to disruption of the primordial order in Russian life, and this way case appears to be the historical grain of the novel”™s narrative storytelling. Casual, as Leo Tolstoy understands it, becomes inevitable fatal force of destiny. The results of casual confront the reasonable necessity accumulated by age-old traditions. This casual as an event determines almost the entire series of events of the novel as a part of the plot. The basic plot situation of Tolstoy”™s novel is reduced to the confrontation of reasonable necessity as the form of existence within the family to what is generated by the age of enframing (M. Heidegger)
