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  2. War and Peace - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. War and Peace (film series) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. War and Peace (opera) - Wikipedia

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    War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter ...

  5. War and Peace (1915 film) - Wikipedia

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    War and Peace (Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1915 Russian film written and co-directed by Vladimir Gardin, based on the 1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy.

  6. Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. Sonya (War and Peace) - Wikipedia

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    At the start of the novel, 15-year-old Sonya is in love with her cousin, Nikolai Rostov, who initially reciprocates her feelings.Sonya has no independent means of support and Nikolai's mother opposes the match; she and Nikolai swear eternal love before he leaves to fight in the war.

  8. Russian world - Wikipedia

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    Russian World by O. Kuzmina (CGI, 2015).It depicts Saint Basil's Cathedral of Moscow behind the monument to Minin and Pozharsky.. The "Russian world" (Russian: Русский мир, romanized: Rússkiy mir) is a concept and a political doctrine usually defined as the sphere of military, political and cultural influence of Russia.

  9. Soviet Storm: World War II in the East - Wikipedia

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    Soviet Storm: World War II in the East (Russian title: Советский Шторм: Вторая мировая война на Востоке; original Russian title — Великая война, English: The Great War) is a 2011 17-episode Russian television World War II series created by Anna Grazhdan, Artem Drabkin, and Aleksey Isaev. [2]