Anna Karenina Part 5 Chapter 21

In which Alexey Alexandrovitch finds himself cast into an agonising solitude, wrestling with the inscrutable gulf between his past tenderness and present isolation, while the cool and indifferent world around him offers no solace. His once orderly existence, marked by political ambition and social routine, reveals itself as a barren landscape devoid of true friendship, leaving him painfully aware of his solitary burden.