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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 ...
War and Peace was the first Soviet picture to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was the longest film ever to receive an Academy Award [94] until O.J.: Made in America won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017.
Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov (Russian: Николай Ильич Ростов) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. Count Nikolai is the brother of Vera Rostova, Natasha Rostova and Petya Rostov. At the start of the novel, Nikolai is aged 20 and a university student.
Inherits Count Bezukhov's fortune, later becomes a Freemason and plans to assassinate Napoleon. Husband of Hélène Kuragina and after her death, of Natasha Rostova. One of the main characters of the story. Bilibin – Russian diplomat to Austria. Appears in Vol I, Part II, Chapter 10.
Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1890) "The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1891) Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal (1893) Introduction to The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
The Sevastopol Sketches (pre-reform Russian: Севастопольскіе разсказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye razskázy; post-reform Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye rasskázy), translated into English as Sebastopol Sketches or Sebastopol Stories or Sevastopol, [1] are three short stories by Leo Tolstoy published in 1855 to ...
And since the start of the war, Russia has sustained more than 800,000 casualties, according to Ukraine’s military estimates. UK and US estimates are slightly lower than the Ukrainian count. CNN ...
Russian Princess Maria [ 1 ] Nikolaevna Bolkonskaya ( Russian : Мария Болконская , Mariya Bolkonskaia ) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy 's 1869 novel War and Peace . Princess Maria, the sister of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky , is a deeply religious young woman who has resigned herself to an unmarried life to be with her ...