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Novel by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Front page of War and Peace, first edition, 1869 (Russian)
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Original title	Война и миръ
Translator	The first translation of War and Peace into English was by American Nathan Haskell Dole, in 1899
Country	Russia
Language	Russian, with some French and German language
Genre	Novel (Historical novel)
Publisher	The Russian Messenger (serial)
Publication date	Serialised 1865–1867; book 1869
Media type	Impress
Pages	1,225 (first published edition)
Followed by	The Decembrists (Abandoned and Unfinished)
Original text	Война и миръ at Russian Wikisource
Translation	War and Peace at Wikisource

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir ; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded every bit one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.^{[i] [2] [3]}

The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the bear upon of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist lodge through the stories of five Russian aloof families. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805,^[4] were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867 before the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.^[five]

Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, fifty-fifty less is information technology a verse form, and withal less a historical relate." Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.^{[half dozen]} The writer rewrote the novel several times.^[7] Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to phone call War and Peace a novel. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his starting time true novel.

Composition history [edit]

Tolstoy's notes from the ninth draft of War and Peace, 1864.

Tolstoy began writing State of war and Peace in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his land estate. In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sis-in-law, request if she could notice any chronicles, diaries or records that related to the Napoleonic menses in Russia. He was dismayed to find that few written records covered the domestic aspects of Russian life at that time, and tried to rectify these omissions in his early drafts of the novel.^[viii] The first half of the book was written and named "1805". During the writing of the 2nd one-half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer every bit one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he had written in War and Peace is besides said by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Representation. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."^[nine]

The kickoff typhoon of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical Russkiy Vestnik (The Russian Messenger) published the offset part of this typhoon under the title 1805 and published more than the following year. Tolstoy was dissatisfied with this version, although he allowed several parts of information technology to exist published with a different catastrophe in 1867. He heavily rewrote the entire novel between 1866 and 1869.^{[5] [x]} Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstaya, copied as many every bit seven separate complete manuscripts before Tolstoy considered it ready for publication.^[10] The version that was published in Russkiy Vestnik had a very different ending from the version eventually published nether the title War and Peace in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and information technology sold out almost immediately. The novel was immediately translated later on publication into many other languages.^{[ citation needed ]}

It is unknown why Tolstoy changed the name to War and Peace. He may accept borrowed the title from the 1861 work of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: La Guerre et la Paix ("State of war and Peace" in French).^[iv] The title may also be another reference to Titus, described equally being a primary of "war and peace" in The Twelve Caesars, written by Suetonius in 119. The completed novel was and then chosen Voyna i mir ( Война и мир in new-manner orthography; in English War and Peace).^{[ commendation needed ]}

The 1805 manuscript was re-edited and annotated in Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, High german, French, Castilian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Albanian, Korean, and Czech.

Tolstoy was instrumental in bringing a new kind of consciousness to the novel. His narrative structure is noted not simply for its god'due south center point of view over and inside events, but as well in the fashion it swiftly and seamlessly portrayed an individual character's view point. His use of visual detail is often comparable to cinema, using literary techniques that resemble panning, wide shots and shut-ups. These devices, while non exclusive to Tolstoy, are part of the new fashion of the novel that arose in the mid-19th century and of which Tolstoy proved himself a chief.^[eleven]

The standard Russian text of War and Peace is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an epilogue in 2 parts. Roughly the commencement one-half is concerned strictly with the fictional characters, whereas the latter parts, as well every bit the 2nd part of the epilogue, increasingly consist of essays about the nature of war, power, history, and historiography. Tolstoy interspersed these essays into the story in a mode that defies previous fictional convention. Certain abridged versions remove these essays entirely, while others, published even during Tolstoy'due south life, merely moved these essays into an appendix.^[12]

Realism [edit]

The novel is set threescore years before Tolstoy'due south mean solar day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russian federation. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies of Napoleon and other key players of that era. There are approximately 160 real persons named or referred to in War and Peace.^[xiii]

He worked from primary source materials (interviews and other documents), too as from history books, philosophy texts and other historical novels.^[10] Tolstoy also used a great bargain of his own feel in the Crimean War to bring vivid particular and offset-hand accounts of how the Imperial Russian Regular army was structured.^[14]

Tolstoy was disquisitional of standard history, especially military history, in State of war and Peace. He explains at the first of the novel'south third book his own views on how history ought to be written.

Language [edit]

Cover of State of war and Peace, Italian translation, 1899.

Although the volume is mainly in Russian, pregnant portions of dialogue are in French. It has been suggested^[xv] that the use of French is a deliberate literary device, to portray bamboozlement while Russian emerges as a language of sincerity, honesty, and seriousness. It could, all the same, too only stand for another chemical element of the realistic style in which the book is written, since French was the common language of the Russian elite, and more generally the aristocracies of continental Europe, at the time.^[16] In fact, the Russian dignity ofttimes knew only enough Russian to control their servants; Tolstoy illustrates this by showing that Julie Karagina, a character in the novel, is and then unfamiliar with her country'south native linguistic communication that she has to accept Russian lessons.

The utilise of French diminishes as the book progresses. Information technology is suggested that this is to demonstrate Russian federation freeing itself from foreign cultural domination,^[fifteen] and to evidence that a once-friendly nation has turned into an enemy. Past midway through the book, several of the Russian aristocracy are eager to detect Russian tutors for themselves.

Background and historical context [edit]

The novel spans the menstruum from 1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Nifty was nonetheless fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.^[17] For the side by side 100 years, information technology became a social requirement for the Russian dignity to speak French and sympathize French culture.^[17]

The historical context of the novel begins with the execution of Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien in 1805, while Russia is ruled by Alexander I during the Napoleonic Wars. Key historical events woven into the novel include the Ulm Entrada, the Boxing of Austerlitz, the Treaties of Tilsit, and the Congress of Erfurt. Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just earlier the French invasion of Russia.^{[eighteen] : 1, 6, 79, 83, 167, 235, 240, 246, 363–364}

Tolstoy then uses the Battle of Ostrovno and the Battle of Shevardino Redoubt in his novel, earlier the occupation of Moscow and the subsequent fire. The novel continues with the Battle of Tarutino, the Battle of Maloyaroslavets, the Battle of Vyazma, and the Battle of Krasnoi. The terminal battle cited is the Battle of Berezina, subsequently which the characters move on with rebuilding Moscow and their lives.^{[eighteen] : 392–396, 449–481, 523, 586–591, 601, 613, 635, 638, 655, 640}

Primary characters [edit]

War and Peace unproblematic family tree

War and Peace detailed family tree

The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins, and the Drubetskoys.

The main characters are:

• The Bezukhovs
  • Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov: the father of Pierre
  • Count Pyotr Kirillovich ("Pierre") Bezukhov: The primal character and oftentimes a voice for Tolstoy's own beliefs or struggles. Pierre is the socially awkward illegitimate son of Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov, who has fathered dozens of illegitimate sons. Educated abroad, Pierre returns to Russian federation as a misfit. His unexpected inheritance of a big fortune makes him socially desirable.
• The Bolkonskys
  • Prince Nikolai Andreich Bolkonsky: The begetter of Andrei and Maria, the eccentric prince possesses a gruff exterior and displays great insensitivity to the emotional needs of his children. Nevertheless, his harshness often belies hidden depth of feeling.
  • Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky: A potent but skeptical, thoughtful and philosophical aide-de-army camp in the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Princess Maria Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya: Sister of Prince Andrei, Princess Maria is a pious adult female whose father attempted to give her a skilful educational activity. The caring, nurturing nature of her large eyes in her otherwise plain confront is ofttimes mentioned. Tolstoy often notes that Princess Maria cannot claim a radiant dazzler (like many other female characters of the novel) but she is a person of very high moral values and of loftier intelligence.
• The Rostovs
  • Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov: The pater-familias of the Rostov family; hopeless with finances, generous to a mistake. As a event, the Rostovs never have enough cash, despite having many estates.
  • Countess Natalya Rostova: The wife of Count Ilya Rostov, she is frustrated past her husband'due south mishandling of their finances, but is determined that her children succeed anyway
  • Countess Natalya Ilyinichna "Natasha" Rostova: A cardinal character, introduced equally "not pretty simply total of life", romantic, impulsive and highly strung. She is an accomplished singer and dancer.
  • Count Nikolai Ilyich "Nikolenka" Rostov: A hussar, the beloved eldest son of the Rostov family.
  • Sofia Alexandrovna "Sonya" Rostova: Orphaned cousin of Vera, Nikolai, Natasha, and Petya Rostov and is in love with Nikolai.
  • Countess Vera Ilyinichna Rostova: Eldest of the Rostov children, she marries the German career soldier, Berg.
  • Pyotr Ilyich "Petya" Rostov: Youngest of the Rostov children.
• The Kuragins
  • Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is adamant to marry his children into wealth at any cost.
  • Princess Elena Vasilyevna "Hélène" Kuragina: A beautiful and sexually alluring woman who has many affairs, including (information technology is rumoured) with her brother Anatole.
  • Prince Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin: Hélène'due south brother, a handsome and amoral pleasure seeker who is secretly married yet tries to elope with Natasha Rostova.
  • Prince Ippolit Vasilyevich (Hippolyte) Kuragin: The younger brother of Anatole and perhaps most dim-witted of the three Kuragin children.
• The Drubetskoys
  • Prince Boris Drubetskoy: A poor simply aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to take had an affair with Hélène Bezukhova.
  • Princess Anna Mihalovna Drubetskaya: The impoverished mother of Boris, whom she wishes to button up the career ladder.
• Other prominent characters
  • Fyodor Ivanovich Dolokhov: A common cold, about psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov past luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhova and he provides for his poor mother and hunchbacked sis.
  • Adolf Karlovich Berg: A immature German language officer, who desires to be just similar everyone else and marries the immature Vera Rostova.
  • Anna Pavlovna Scherer: Likewise known as Annette, she is the hostess of the salon that is the site of much of the novel'southward action in Petersburg and schemes with Prince Vasily Kuragin.
  • Maria Dmitryevna Akhrosimova: An older Moscow society lady, good-humored but brutally honest.
  • Amalia Evgenyevna Bourienne: A Frenchwoman who lives with the Bolkonskys, primarily as Princess Maria's companion and later on at Maria'southward expense.
  • Vasily Dmitrich Denisov: Nikolai Rostov's friend and brother officer, who unsuccessfully proposes to Natasha.
  • Platon Karataev: The archetypal good Russian peasant, whom Pierre meets in the prisoner-of-war camp.
  • Osip Bazdeyev: a Freemason who convinces Pierre to join his mysterious group.
  • Bilibin: A diplomat with a reputation for cleverness, an acquaintance of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.

In add-on, several real-life historical characters (such as Napoleon and Prince Mikhail Kutuzov) play a prominent part in the book. Many of Tolstoy's characters were based on existent people. His grandparents and their friends were the models for many of the main characters; his neat-grandparents would have been of the generation of Prince Vassily or Count Ilya Rostov.

Plot summary [edit]

Volume I [edit]

The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer, the maid of award and confidante to the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main characters are introduced as they enter the salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, who is dying after a series of strokes. Pierre is most to get embroiled in a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his begetter's expense post-obit his mother's death, Pierre is kindhearted but socially awkward, and finds information technology difficult to integrate into Petersburg gild. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his father'southward favorite of all the old count'southward illegitimate progeny. They respect Pierre during the soiree because his father, Count Bezukhov, is a very rich homo, and as Pierre is his favorite, most aristocrats call back that the fortune of his begetter will be given to him even though he is illegitimate.

Also attending the soirée is Pierre's friend, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, hubby of Lise, a charming society favourite. He is disillusioned with Petersburg order and with married life; feeling that his married woman is empty and superficial, he comes to detest her and all women, expressing patently misogynistic views to Pierre when the two are alone. Pierre does not quite know what to do with this, and is made uncomfortable witnessing the marital discord. Pierre had been sent to St Petersburg past his father to choose a career for himself, but he is quite uncomfortable because he cannot notice one and everybody keeps on request about this. Andrei tells Pierre he has decided to become adjutant-de-camp to Prince Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war (The Battle of Austerlitz) confronting Napoleon in order to escape a life he cannot stand up.

The plot moves to Moscow, Russia'due south onetime uppercase, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to the more European society of Saint Petersburg. The Rostov family is introduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova are an appreciating couple merely forever worried virtually their disordered finances. They have 4 children. Xiii-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes herself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a young human being who is near to join the regular army as an officer. The mother of Boris is Anna Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya who is a childhood friend of the countess Natalya Rostova. Boris is as well the godson of Count Bezukhov (Pierre's male parent). Twenty-yr-old Nikolai Ilyich pledges his dearest to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his xv-year-sometime cousin, an orphan who has been brought up past the Rostovs. The eldest child, Vera Ilyinichna, is common cold and somewhat haughty only has a good prospective marriage to a Russian-German officer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) at nine is the youngest; like his blood brother, he is impetuous and eager to join the army when of age.

At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' land estate, Prince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife Lise with his eccentric begetter Prince Nikolai Andreyevich and devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya, who refuses to marry the son of a wealthy aristocrat on account of her devotion to her father and suspicion that the fellow would be unfaithful to her.

The second office opens with descriptions of the impending Russian-French state of war preparations. At the Schöngrabern engagement, Nikolai Rostov, now an ensign in the hussars, has his first gustatory modality of battle. Boris Drubetskoy introduces him to Prince Andrei, whom Rostov insults in a fit of impetuousness. He is deeply attracted past Tsar Alexander's charisma. Nikolai gambles and socializes with his officer, Vasily Dmitrich Denisov, and befriends the ruthless Fyodor Ivanovich Dolokhov. Bolkonsky, Rostov and Denisov are involved in the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz, in which Prince Andrei is badly wounded as he attempts to rescue a Russian standard.

The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in the book. As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei thinks the budgeted "solar day [volition] be his Toulon, or his Arcola",^[xix] references to Napoleon's early victories. Afterward in the boxing, notwithstanding, Andrei falls into enemy hands and even meets his hero, Napoleon. Merely his previous enthusiasm has been shattered; he no longer thinks much of Napoleon, "so petty did his hero with his paltry vanity and please in victory appear, compared to that lofty, righteous and kindly sky which he had seen and comprehended".^[xx] Tolstoy portrays Austerlitz every bit an early test for Russian federation, ane which ended badly because the soldiers fought for irrelevant things like glory or renown rather than the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at Borodino during the 1812 invasion.

Book Two [edit]

Book 2 begins with Nikolai Rostov returning on leave to Moscow accompanied past his friend Denisov, his officer from his Pavlograd Regiment. He spends an eventful winter at home. Natasha has blossomed into a cute immature woman. Denisov falls in dear with her and proposes marriage, simply is rejected. Nikolai meets Dolokhov, and they abound closer as friends. Dolokhov falls in love with Sonya, Nikolai's cousin, but as she is in love with Nikolai, she rejects Dolokhov'southward proposal. Nikolai meets Dolokhov some fourth dimension later. The resentful Dolokhov challenges Nikolai at cards, and Nikolai loses every hand until he sinks into a 43,000 ruble debt. Although his mother pleads with Nikolai to marry a wealthy heiress to rescue the family from its dire financial straits, he refuses. Instead, he promises to marry his childhood beat out and orphaned cousin, the dowry-less Sonya.

Pierre Bezukhov, upon finally receiving his massive inheritance, is of a sudden transformed from a bumbling young human into the most eligible available in Russian guild. Despite knowing that it is wrong, he is convinced into matrimony with Prince Kuragin'south cute and immoral girl Hélène (Elena Vasilyevna Kuragina). Hélène, who is rumored to exist involved in an incestuous matter with her blood brother Anatole, tells Pierre that she will never take children with him. Hélène is also rumored to be having an affair with Dolokhov, who mocks Pierre in public. Pierre loses his temper and challenges Dolokhov to a duel. Unexpectedly (because Dolokhov is a seasoned dueller), Pierre wounds Dolokhov. Hélène denies her affair, but Pierre is convinced of her guilt and leaves her. In his moral and spiritual defoliation, Pierre joins the Freemasons. Much of Book Two concerns his struggles with his passions and his spiritual conflicts. He abandons his former carefree beliefs and enters upon a philosophical quest particular to Tolstoy: how should ane alive a moral life in an ethically imperfect earth? The question continually baffles Pierre. He attempts to liberate his serfs, but ultimately achieves nothing of note.

Pierre is assorted with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Andrei recovers from his near-fatal wound in a armed services hospital and returns domicile, only to discover his wife Lise dying in childbirth. He is stricken past his guilty conscience for not treating her amend. His child, Nikolai, survives.

Burdened with nihilistic disillusionment, Prince Andrei does non render to the army only remains on his estate, working on a project that would codify military behavior to solve problems of disorganization responsible for the loss of life on the Russian side. Pierre visits him and brings new questions: where is God in this amoral world? Pierre is interested in panentheism and the possibility of an afterlife.

Pierre'south wife, Hélène, begs him to take her dorsum, and trying to abide past the Freemason laws of forgiveness, he agrees. Hélène establishes herself equally an influential hostess in Petersburg society.

Prince Andrei feels impelled to accept his newly written military notions to Leningrad, naively expecting to influence either the Emperor himself or those close to him. Young Natasha, as well in Saint Petersburg, is caught up in the excitement of her first 1000 ball, where she meets Prince Andrei and briefly reinvigorates him with her vivacious charm. Andrei believes he has found purpose in life once more and, after paying the Rostovs several visits, proposes marriage to Natasha. However, Andrei's father dislikes the Rostovs and opposes the wedlock, insisting that the couple expect a year earlier marrying. Prince Andrei leaves to recuperate from his wounds away, leaving Natasha distraught. Count Rostov takes her and Sonya to Moscow in club to raise funds for her trousseau.

Natasha visits the Moscow opera, where she meets Hélène and her brother Anatole. Anatole has since married a Polish woman whom he abandoned in Poland. He is very attracted to Natasha and determined to seduce her, and conspires with his sis to do so. Anatole succeeds in making Natasha believe he loves her, eventually establishing plans to elope. Natasha writes to Princess Maria, Andrei'south sister, breaking off her date. At the last moment, Sonya discovers her plans to elope and foils them. Natasha learns from Pierre of Anatole's marriage. Devastated, Natasha makes a suicide attempt and is left seriously ill.

Pierre is initially horrified past Natasha'due south behavior only realizes he has fallen in dear with her. As the Dandy Comet of 1811–12 streaks the sky, life appears to brainstorm afresh for Pierre. Prince Andrei coldly accepts Natasha'south breaking of the engagement. He tells Pierre that his pride will non permit him to renew his proposal.

Book Three [edit]

The Battle of Borodino, fought on September vii, 1812, and involving more a quarter of a meg troops and seventy thousand casualties was a turning point in Napoleon'southward failed campaign to defeat Russia. It is vividly depicted through the plot and characters of War and Peace.
Painting by Louis-François, Businesswoman Lejeune, 1822.

With the assistance of her family, and the stirrings of religious faith, Natasha manages to persevere in Moscow through this dark menstruum. Meanwhile, the whole of Russia is affected past the coming confrontation betwixt Napoleon'due south ground forces and the Russian army. Pierre convinces himself through gematria that Napoleon is the Antichrist of the Volume of Revelation. Former Prince Bolkonsky dies of a stroke knowing that French marauders are coming for his estate. No organized help from any Russian regular army seems available to the Bolkonskys, but Nikolai Rostov turns up at their estate in time to help put down an incipient peasant revolt. He finds himself attracted to the distraught Princess Maria.

Back in Moscow, the patriotic Petya joins a crowd in audience of Tzar Alexander and manages to snatch a biscuit thrown from the balustrade window of the Cathedral of the Assumption past the Tzar. He is nearly crushed by the throngs in his effort. Nether the influence of the aforementioned patriotism, his father finally allows him to enlist.

Napoleon himself is the chief grapheme in this department, and the novel presents him in vivid detail, both personally and as both a thinker and would-exist strategist. Also described are the well-organized force of over iv hundred 1000 troops of the French Grande Armée (only one hundred and forty thousand of them actually French-speaking) that marches through the Russian countryside in the late summertime and reaches the outskirts of the city of Smolensk. Pierre decides to get out Moscow and go to picket the Boxing of Borodino from a vantage point next to a Russian artillery crew. Later watching for a time, he begins to join in conveying armament. In the midst of the turmoil he experiences first-paw the decease and destruction of war; Eugène'southward artillery continues to pound Russian support columns, while Marshals Ney and Davout prepare a crossfire with artillery positioned on the Semyonovskaya heights. The battle becomes a hideous slaughter for both armies and ends in a standoff. The Russians, however, have won a moral victory by continuing upward to Napoleon's reputedly invincible ground forces. The Russian army withdraws the adjacent day, allowing Napoleon to march on to Moscow. Amid the casualties are Anatole Kuragin and Prince Andrei. Anatole loses a leg, and Andrei suffers a grenade wound in the abdomen. Both are reported dead, but their families are in such disarray that no one tin can be notified.

Book Four [edit]

The Rostovs have waited until the last infinitesimal to abandon Moscow, fifty-fifty subsequently it became articulate that Kutuzov had retreated past Moscow. The Muscovites are beingness given contradictory instructions on how to either flee or fight. Count Fyodor Rostopchin, the commander in chief of Moscow, is publishing posters, rousing the citizens to put their religion in religious icons, while at the same fourth dimension urging them to fight with pitchforks if necessary. Before fleeing himself, he gives orders to burn down the city. However, Tolstoy states that the called-for of an abased urban center mostly built of wood was inevitable, and while the French blame the Russians, these arraign the French. The Rostovs take a difficult time deciding what to take with them, but in the end, Natasha convinces them to load their carts with the wounded and dying from the Boxing of Borodino. Unknown to Natasha, Prince Andrei is among the wounded.

When Napoleon's army finally occupies an abased and called-for Moscow, Pierre takes off on a quixotic mission to assassinate Napoleon. He becomes anonymous in all the chaos, shedding his responsibilities by wearing peasant clothes and shunning his duties and lifestyle. The merely people he sees are Natasha and some of her family, as they depart Moscow. Natasha recognizes and smiles at him, and he in turn realizes the full scope of his honey for her.

Pierre saves the life of a French officer who enters his dwelling house looking for shelter, and they have a long, amicable conversation. The adjacent mean solar day Pierre goes into the street to resume his assassination plan, and comes across two French soldiers robbing an Armenian family. When i of the soldiers tries to rip the necklace off the young Armenian woman's neck, Pierre intervenes by attacking the soldiers, and is taken prisoner by the French ground forces. He believes he will be executed, but in the stop is spared. He witnesses, with horror, the execution of other prisoners.

Pierre becomes friends with a fellow prisoner, Platon Karataev, a Russian peasant with a saintly demeanor. In Karataev, Pierre finally finds what he has been seeking: an honest person of integrity, who is utterly without pretense. Pierre discovers meaning in life simply by interacting with him. Afterwards witnessing French soldiers sacking Moscow and shooting Russian civilians arbitrarily, Pierre is forced to march with the Grand Army during its disastrous retreat from Moscow in the harsh Russian winter. After months of tribulation—during which the fever-plagued Karataev is shot by the French—Pierre is finally freed by a Russian raiding party led by Dolokhov and Denisov, after a small skirmish with the French that sees the young Petya Rostov killed in action.

Meanwhile, Andrei has been taken in and cared for by the Rostovs, fleeing from Moscow to Yaroslavl. He is reunited with Natasha and his sister Maria before the end of the war. In an internal transformation, he loses the fear of decease and forgives Natasha in a last act before dying.

Nikolai becomes worried most his family's finances, and leaves the army after hearing of Petya's expiry. There is lilliputian hope for recovery. Given the Rostov'due south ruin, he does not feel comfortable with the prospect of marrying the wealthy Marya Bolkonsky, but when they run across again they both notwithstanding feel dearest for each other. Every bit the novel draws to a close, Pierre'due south wife Hélène dies from an overdose of an abortifacient (Tolstoy does not state it explicitly just the euphemism he uses is unambiguous). Pierre is reunited with Natasha, while the victorious Russians rebuild Moscow. Natasha speaks of Prince Andrei's death and Pierre of Karataev's. Both are aware of a growing bail between them in their bereavement. With the assistance of Princess Maria, Pierre finds love at concluding and marries Natasha.

Epilogue in ii parts [edit]

First part [edit]

The start function of the epilogue begins with the wedding of Pierre and Natasha in 1813. Count Rostov dies soon after, leaving his eldest son Nikolai to take accuse of the debt-ridden estate. Nikolai finds himself with the chore of maintaining the family on the verge of bankruptcy. His but treatment of peasants earns him respect and love, and his situation improves. He and Maria now have children.

Nikolai and Maria so move to Baldheaded Hills with his mother and Sonya, whom he supports for the rest of their lives. They also heighten Prince Andrei's orphaned son, Nikolai Andreyevich (Nikolenka) Bolkonsky.

As in all practiced marriages, there are misunderstandings, merely the couples – Pierre and Natasha, Nikolai and Maria – remain devoted to their spouses. Pierre and Natasha visit Bald Hills in 1820. There is a hint in the closing chapters that the idealistic, boyish Nikolenka and Pierre would both become part of the Decembrist Uprising. The first epilogue concludes with Nikolenka promising he would do something with which even his late father "would exist satisfied" (presumably as a revolutionary in the Decembrist revolt).

Second function [edit]

The second function of the epilogue contains Tolstoy's critique of all existing forms of mainstream history. The 19th-century Great Human being Theory claims that historical events are the result of the actions of "heroes" and other great individuals; Tolstoy argues that this is impossible considering of how rarely these actions event in great historical events. Rather, he argues, great historical events are the event of many smaller events driven past the thousands of individuals involved (he compares this to calculus, and the sum of infinitesimals). He then goes on to contend that these smaller events are the result of an inverse relationship between necessity and free-will, necessity existence based on reason and therefore explicable through historical assay, and free-will beingness based on "consciousness" and therefore inherently unpredictable.

Reception [edit]

The novel that made its author "the truthful king of beasts of the Russian literature" (according to Ivan Goncharov)^{[21] [22]} enjoyed great success with the reading public upon its publication and spawned dozens of reviews and analytical essays, some of which (by Dmitry Pisarev, Pavel Annenkov, Dragomirov and Strakhov) formed the basis for the research of subsequently Tolstoy scholars.^[22] Yet the Russian press'south initial response to the novel was muted, with most critics unable to decide how to allocate it. The liberal newspaper Golos (The Voice, April three, #93, 1865) was i of the first to react. Its bearding reviewer posed a question later repeated by many others: "What could this possibly be? What kind of genre are we supposed to file it to?.. Where is fiction in it, and where is real history?"^[22]

Author and critic Nikolai Akhsharumov, writing in Vsemirny Trud (#6, 1867) suggested that War and Peace was "neither a chronicle, nor a historical novel", merely a genre merger, this ambiguity never undermining its immense value. Annenkov, who praised the novel too, was every bit vague when trying to classify it. "The cultural history of one large department of our society, the political and social panorama of it in the beginning of the current century", was his proposition. "Information technology is the [social] epic, the history novel and the vast picture of the whole nation's life", wrote Ivan Turgenev in his bid to define State of war and Peace in the foreword for his French translation of "The Two Hussars" (published in Paris by Le Temps in 1875).

In general, the literary left received the novel coldly. They saw information technology as devoid of social critique, and keen on the idea of national unity. They saw its major fault equally the "author's disability to portray a new kind of revolutionary intelligentsia in his novel", as critic Varfolomey Zaytsev put information technology.^[23] Manufactures past D. Minayev, Vasily Bervi-Flerovsky [ru] and N. Shelgunov in Delo mag characterized the novel as "lacking realism", showing its characters every bit "cruel and rough", "mentally stoned", "morally depraved" and promoting "the philosophy of stagnation". Still, Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin, who never expressed his opinion of the novel publicly, in private conversation was reported to have expressed delight with "how strongly this Count has stung our higher social club".^[24] Dmitry Pisarev in his unfinished article "Russian Gentry of Former" ( Staroye barstvo , Otechestvennye Zapiski , #2, 1868), while praising Tolstoy'due south realism in portraying members of high society, was still unhappy with the way the author, every bit he saw it, 'idealized' the old dignity, expressing "unconscious and quite natural tenderness towards" the Russian dvoryanstvo. On the opposite front, the conservative press and "patriotic" authors (A. S. Norov and P. A. Vyazemsky amongst them) were accusing Tolstoy of consciously distorting 1812 history, desecrating the "patriotic feelings of our fathers" and ridiculing dvoryanstvo.^[22]

One of the first comprehensive articles on the novel was that of Pavel Annenkov, published in #2, 1868 issue of Vestnik Evropy. The critic praised Tolstoy's masterful portrayal of man at state of war, marveled at the complexity of the whole composition, organically merging historical facts and fiction. "The dazzling side of the novel", according to Annenkov, was "the natural simplicity with which [the author] transports the worldly affairs and large social events down to the level of a character who witnesses them." Annekov thought the historical gallery of the novel was incomplete with the ii "groovy raznotchintsys", Speransky and Arakcheev, and deplored the fact that the author stopped at introducing to the novel "this relatively crude but original element". In the end the critic called the novel "the whole epoch in the Russian fiction".^[22]

Slavophiles declared Tolstoy their " bogatyr " and pronounced War and Peace "the Bible of the new national idea". Several manufactures on War and Peace were published in 1869–70 in Zarya magazine by Nikolai Strakhov. "War and Peace is the work of genius, equal to everything that the Russian literature has produced before", he pronounced in the beginning, smaller essay. "It is now quite clear that from 1868 when the War and Peace was published the very essence of what we call Russian literature has become quite different, acquired the new class and pregnant", the critic continued later. Strakhov was the offset critic in Russian federation who declared Tolstoy'south novel to exist a masterpiece of level previously unknown in Russian literature. Even so, beingness a true Slavophile, he could not fail to see the novel as promoting the major Slavophiliac ideas of "meek Russian character's supremacy over the rapacious European kind" (using Apollon Grigoriev'south formula). Years later, in 1878, discussing Strakhov'southward own book The World every bit a Whole, Tolstoy criticized both Grigoriev'southward concept (of "Russian meekness vs. Western bestiality") and Strakhov's interpretation of it.^[25]

Amid the reviewers were military men and authors specializing in state of war literature. Most assessed highly the artfulness and realism of Tolstoy's battle scenes. N. Lachinov, a member of the Russky Invalid paper staff (#69, April 10, 1868) called the Battle of Schöngrabern scenes "bearing the highest degree of historical and artistic truthfulness" and totally agreed with the writer's view on the Boxing of Borodino, which some of his opponents disputed. The regular army general and respected military writer Mikhail Dragomirov, in an article published in Oruzheiny Sbornik (The Military Almanac, 1868–lxx), while disputing some of Tolstoy'due south ideas concerning the "spontaneity" of wars and the role of commander in battles, advised all the Russian Army officers to use War and Peace every bit their desk book, describing its battle scenes every bit "unequalled" and "serving for an ideal manual to every textbook on theories of military machine art."^[22]

Unlike professional person literary critics, virtually prominent Russian writers of the time supported the novel wholeheartedly. Goncharov, Turgenev, Leskov, Dostoyevsky and Fet have all gone on tape equally declaring War and Peace the masterpiece of the Russian literature. Ivan Goncharov in a July 17, 1878 letter to Pyotr Ganzen advised him to cull for translating into Danish War and Peace, adding: "This is positively what might exist called a Russian Iliad. Embracing the whole epoch, it is the grandiose literary event, showcasing the gallery of great men painted by a lively brush of the great master ... This is ane of the most, if not the most profound literary work ever".^[26] In 1879, unhappy with Ganzen having called Anna Karenina to get-go with, Goncharov insisted: "State of war and Peace is the extraordinary poem of a novel, both in content and execution. It as well serves as a monument to Russian history's glorious epoch when whatever effigy y'all take is a colossus, a statue in bronze. Even [the novel's] modest characters carry all the characteristic features of the Russian people and its life."^[27] In 1885, expressing satisfaction with the fact that Tolstoy's works had by and so been translated into Danish, Goncharov again stressed the immense importance of War and Peace. "Count Tolstoy actually mounts over everybody else here [in Russian federation]", he remarked.^[28]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in a May 30, 1871 alphabetic character to Strakhov) described War and Peace every bit "the last discussion of the landlord's literature and the brilliant ane at that". In a draft version of The Raw Youth he described Tolstoy as "a historiograph of the dvoryanstvo , or rather, its cultural elite". "The objectivity and realism impart wonderful charm to all scenes, and alongside people of talent, accolade and duty he exposes numerous scoundrels, worthless goons and fools", he added.^[29] In 1876 Dostoyevsky wrote: "My strong conviction is that a writer of fiction has to have nearly profound noesis—non only of the poetic side of his fine art, but as well the reality he deals with, in its historical likewise equally contemporary context. Here [in Russia], equally far as I see it, merely one writer excels in this, Count Lev Tolstoy."^[30]

Nikolai Leskov, then an anonymous reviewer in Birzhevy Vestnik (The Stock Commutation Herald), wrote several articles praising highly War and Peace, calling it "the best e'er Russian historical novel" and "the pride of the contemporary literature". Marveling at the realism and factual truthfulness of Tolstoy'south book, Leskov thought the author deserved the special credit for "having lifted up the people's spirit upon the high pedestal it deserved". "While working most elaborately upon individual characters, the author, manifestly, has been studying almost diligently the character of the nation as a whole; the life of people whose moral strength came to be concentrated in the Army that came up to fight mighty Napoleon. In this respect the novel of Count Tolstoy could be seen as an ballsy of the Great national war which upwards until now has had its historians but never had its singers", Leskov wrote.^[22]

Afanasy Fet, in a Jan 1, 1870 letter to Tolstoy, expressed his great delight with the novel. "You've managed to testify us in great detail the other, mundane side of life and explicate how organically does it feed the outer, heroic side of it", he added.^[31]

Ivan Turgenev gradually re-considered his initial skepticism as to the novel's historical aspect and also the manner of Tolstoy'due south psychological assay. In his 1880 article written in the course of a letter addressed to Edmond Abou, the editor of the French paper Le Nineteen^e Siècle , Turgenev described Tolstoy every bit "the almost popular Russian writer" and State of war and Peace equally "one of the most remarkable books of our age".^[32] "This vast piece of work has the spirit of an epic, where the life of Russian federation of the beginning of our century in general and in details has been recreated past the hand of a true master ... The fashion in which Count Tolstoy conducts his treatise is innovative and original. This is the great piece of work of a great writer, and in information technology there's true, real Russia", Turgenev wrote.^[33] Information technology was largely due to Turgenev'south efforts that the novel started to gain popularity with the European readership. The offset French edition of the War and Peace (1879) paved the mode for the worldwide success of Leo Tolstoy and his works.^[22]

Since and then many world-famous authors have praised War and Peace as a masterpiece of world literature. Gustave Flaubert expressed his delight in a January 1880 letter to Turgenev, writing: "This is the starting time class work! What an creative person and what a psychologist! The start two volumes are exquisite. I used to utter shrieks of please while reading. This is powerful, very powerful indeed."^[34] Later John Galsworthy called State of war and Peace "the all-time novel that had ever been written". Romain Rolland, remembering his reading the novel as a pupil, wrote: "this piece of work, similar life itself, has no starting time, no cease. It is life itself in its eternal motion."^[35] Thomas Mann thought War and Peace to exist "the greatest ever war novel in the history of literature."^[36] Ernest Hemingway confessed that it was from Tolstoy that he had been taking lessons on how to "write well-nigh war in the most straightforward, honest, objective and stark manner." "I don't know everyone who could write about war better than Tolstoy did", Hemingway asserted in his 1955 Men at War. The All-time War Stories of All Time anthology.^[22]

Isaak Babel said, after reading War and Peace, "If the world could write past itself, it would write similar Tolstoy."^[37] Tolstoy "gives united states of america a unique combination of the 'naive objectivity' of the oral narrator with the interest in detail feature of realism. This is the reason for our trust in his presentation."^[38]

English translations [edit]

State of war and Peace has been translated into many languages. It has been translated into English on several occasions, starting with Clara Bell working from a French translation. The translators Constance Garnett and Louise and Aylmer Maude knew Tolstoy personally. Translations have to deal with Tolstoy'south frequently peculiar syntax and his fondness for repetitions. Only well-nigh 2 per centum of War and Peace is in French; Tolstoy removed the French in a revised 1873 edition, only to restore it later.^[15] Most translators follow Garnett retaining some French; Briggs and Shubin use no French, while Pevear-Volokhonsky and Amy Mandelker's revision of the Maude translation both retain the French fully.^[xv]

List of English translations [edit]

(Translators listed.)

Full translations:

• Clara Bell (New York: Gottsberger, 1886). Translated from a French version
• Nathan Haskell Dole (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1889)
• Leo Wiener (Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1904)
• Constance Garnett (London: Heinemann, 1904)
• Aylmer and Louise Maude (Oxford: Oxford Academy Press, 1922–23)
  • Revised past Amy Mandelker (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Rosemary Edmonds (Penguin, 1957; revised 1978)
• Ann Dunnigan (New American Library, 1968)
• Anthony Briggs (Penguin, 2005)
• Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Random House, 2007)
• Daniel H. Shubin (cocky-published, 2020)

Abridged translation:

• Princess Alexandra Kropotkin (Doubleday, 1949)^[18]

Translation of draft of 1863:

• Andrew Bromfield (HarperCollins, 2007). Approx. 400 pages shorter than English translations of the finished novel

Comparing translations [edit]

In the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit has this to say near the translations of War and Peace available in 2000: "Of all the translations of War and Peace, Dunnigan's (1968) is the best. ... Unlike the other translators, Dunnigan even succeeds with many characteristically Russian folk expressions and proverbs. ... She is faithful to the text and does not hesitate to render conscientiously those details that the uninitiated may find bewildering: for case, the statement that Boris's mother pronounced his name with a stress on the o – an indication to the Russian reader of the onetime lady's affectation."

On the Garnett translation Pavlovskis-Petit writes: "her ...War and Peace is often inexact and contains too many anglicisms. Her mode is awkward and turgid, very unsuitable for Tolstoi." On the Maudes' translation she comments: "this should have been the best translation, but the Maudes' lack of adroitness in dealing with Russian folk idiom, and their manner in general, identify this version below Dunnigan's." She farther comments on Edmonds'due south revised translation, formerly on Penguin: "[it] is the piece of work of a sound scholar but not the best possible translator; information technology frequently lacks resourcefulness and imagination in its use of English language. ... a respectable translation but non on the level of Dunnigan or Maude."^[39]

Adaptations [edit]

Picture show [edit]

• The offset Russian accommodation was Война и мир ( Voyna i mir ) in 1915, which was directed past Vladimir Gardin and starred Gardin and the Russian ballerina Vera Karalli. Fumio Kamei produced a version in Japan in 1947.
• The 208-minute-long American 1956 version was directed by King Vidor and starred Audrey Hepburn (Natasha), Henry Fonda (Pierre) and Mel Ferrer (Andrei). Audrey Hepburn was nominated for a BAFTA Award for all-time British actress and for a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama production.
• The critically acclaimed, four-part and 431-minutes long Soviet War and Peace, by manager Sergei Bondarchuk, was released in 1966 and 1967. It starred Lyudmila Savelyeva (as Natasha Rostova) and Vyacheslav Tikhonov (equally Andrei Bolkonsky). Bondarchuk himself played the grapheme of Pierre Bezukhov. It involved thousands of extras and took six years to finish the shooting, as a event of which the actors historic period changed dramatically from scene to scene. Information technology won an Oscar for Best Strange Language Film for its authenticity and massive scale.^{[ citation needed ]} Bondarchuk'southward picture is considered to be the best screen version of the novel. It attracted some controversy due to the number of horses killed during the making of the battle sequences and screenings were actively boycotted in several US cities by the ASPCA.^[40]

Television [edit]

• War and Peace (1972): The BBC (British Dissemination Corporation) fabricated a idiot box serial based on the novel, broadcast in 1972–73. Anthony Hopkins played the pb part of Pierre. Other lead characters were played past Rupert Davies, Faith Brook, Morag Hood, Alan Dobie, Angela Down and Sylvester Morand. This version faithfully included many of Tolstoy's minor characters, including Platon Karataev (Harry Locke).^{[41] [42]}
• La guerre et la paix (2000): French TV production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace, directed by François Roussillon. Robert Brubaker played the lead function of Pierre.^[43]
• War and Peace (2007): produced by the Italian Lux Vide, a Tv mini-series in Russian & English co-produced in Russia, France, Federal republic of germany, Poland and Italian republic. Directed by Robert Dornhelm, with screenplay written past Lorenzo Favella, Enrico Medioli and Gavin Scott. Information technology features an international bandage with Alexander Beyer playing the lead office of Pierre assisted by Malcolm McDowell, Clémence Poésy, Alessio Boni, Pilar Abella, J. Kimo Arbas, Ken Duken, Juozapas Bagdonas and Toni Bertorelli.^[44]
• On 8 December 2015, Russian country television channel Russian federation-Chiliad began a four-24-hour interval broadcast of a reading of the novel, one book per solar day, involving one,300 readers in over 30 cities.^[45]
• War & Peace (2016): The BBC aired a vi-part adaptation of the novel scripted by Andrew Davies on BBC One in 2016.^{[46] [47]}

Music [edit]

• English progressive rock ring Yes's vocal "The Gates of Delirium" from their 1974 album Relayer was inspired by War and Peace.

Opera [edit]

• Initiated past a proposal of the German director Erwin Piscator in 1938, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed his opera War and Peace (Op. 91, libretto by Mira Mendelson) based on this epic novel during the 1940s. The complete musical piece of work premièred in Leningrad in 1955. It was the starting time opera to exist given a public performance at the Sydney Opera House (1973).^[48]

Theatre [edit]

• The first successful phase adaptations of War and Peace were produced past Alfred Neumann and Erwin Piscator (1942, revised 1955, published by Macgibbon & Kee in London 1963, and staged in 16 countries since) and R. Lucas (1943).
• A stage adaptation by Helen Edmundson, first produced in 1996 at the Imperial National Theatre with Richard Promise as Pierre and Anne-Marie Duff as Natasha, was published that year by Nick Hern Books, London. Edmundson added to and amended the play^[49] for a 2008 production as ii 3-hour parts by Shared Experience, again directed by Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale.^[50] This was first put on at the Nottingham Playhouse, then toured in the Britain to Liverpool, Darlington, Bathroom, Warwick, Oxford, Truro, London (the Hampstead Theatre) and Cheltenham.
• A musical adaptation by OBIE Award-winner Dave Malloy, called Natasha, Pierre & The Peachy Comet of 1812 premiered at the Ars Nova theater in Manhattan on October 1, 2012. The evidence is described as an electropop opera, and is based on Book eight of War and Peace, focusing on Natasha'south affair with Anatole.^[51] The bear witness opened on Broadway in the fall of 2016, starring Josh Groban as Pierre and Denée Benton as Natasha. Information technology received twelve Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, All-time Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical.

Radio [edit]

• The BBC Habitation Service broadcast an eight-part accommodation by Walter Peacock from 17 January to 7 February 1943 with two episodes on each Dominicus. All merely the final instalment, which ran for 1 and a one-half hours, were i hour long. Leslie Banks played Pierre while Celia Johnson was Natasha.
• In Dec 1970, Pacifica Radio station WBAI broadcast a reading of the entire novel (the 1968 Dunnigan translation) read by over 140 celebrities and ordinary people.^[52]
• A dramatised full-bandage adaptation in 20 parts, edited by Michael Bakewell, was broadcast past the BBC betwixt xxx Dec 1969 and 12 May 1970, with a cast including David Buck, Kate Binchy and Martin Jarvis.
• A dramatised full-cast accommodation in ten parts was written by Marcy Kahan and Mike Walker in 1997 for BBC Radio 4. The production won the 1998 Talkie award for All-time Drama and was around 9.5 hours in length. Information technology was directed by Janet Whitaker and featured Simon Russell Beale, Gerard Murphy, Richard Johnson, and others.^[53]
• On New Year'southward Twenty-four hours 2015, BBC Radio 4^[54] broadcast a dramatisation over x hours. The dramatisation, past playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, was directed by Celia de Wolff and starred Paterson Joseph and John Injure. It was accompanied by a Tweetalong: alive tweets throughout the day that offered a playful companion to the book and included plot summaries and entertaining commentary. The Twitter feed likewise shared maps, family trees and battle plans.^[55]

See also [edit]

• Leo Tolstoy bibliography
• List of historical novels
• Volkonsky House
• State of war and Peas
• Mir

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External links [edit]

• English Text
  • English translation with commentary by the Maudes at the Cyberspace Archive
  • English language translation at Gutenberg
  • War and Peace, from Marxists.org
  • War and Peace, from RevoltLib.com
  • State of war and Peace' , from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1863-1869). Illustrated by A. Apsit (1911-1912)
  • Searchable version of the gutenberg text in multiple formats SiSU
  • War and Peace at the Internet Book List
  • A searchable online version of Aylmer Maude'south English language translation of War and Peace
• English language Audio
  • War and Peace public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• Commentaries
  • Homage to State of war and Peace Searchable map, compiled by Nicholas Jenkins, of places named in Tolstoy's novel (2008).
  • Nativity, expiry, balls and battles past Orlando Figes. This is an edited version of an essay found in the Penguin Classics new translation of War and Peace (2005).
• Summaries
  • Chapter Summaries for War and Peace
  • SparkNotes Study Guide for War and Peace
• In Current Events
  • Radio documentary about 1970 marathon reading of State of war and Peace on WBAI, from Commonwealth At present! program, Dec 6, 2005
• Russian Text Online
  • Full text of War and Peace in mod Russian orthography

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