"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Pt. I, ch. 1
#OTD in 1873.
Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina, which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow) between 1873 and 1877, but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina
Anna Karenina at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399