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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir) is a 1966–1967 Soviet epic war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy. An early ...
[4] Merriam-Webster lists him among "the most attractive and sympathetic characters in literature". [5] And M. Keith Booker describes Pierre as one of Tolstoy's "most memorable characters". [6] In publicity for the BBC's 2016 adaptation he is described as follows: Pierre is an outcast. The awkward, illegitimate son of a dazzlingly wealthy Count ...
He is possibly based on Tolstoy's cousin Prince Sergey Volkonsky, who was a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and later a Decembrist. [citation needed] However, author Laura Jepsen's view is that unlike "many of the other characters for whom the author found living prototypes, Prince Andrei is entirely fictitious".
The staged version of the novel is a libretto written by the composer Rybnikov. The classical story of the prince Andrey Bolkonsky involved in the war of Russian Emperor Alexander the First against the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Bolkonsky's High Society life, love of young and joyful Natasha Rostova is heavily featured.
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Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (Russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, [1] its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as well. [2]
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