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Teachers & SchoolsAfter inheriting a vast fortune from his father, Pierre spends the novel trying to answer...
The beautiful, accomplished youngest daughter of the Rostov family, Natasha begins the novel as a...
The oldest son of a controlling and sometimes vicious father, Andrei is an intellectual and...
The oldest Rostov son, Nikolai is a hardcore patriot. He loves his emperor and embraces his...
A loving couple, the Rostovs are the heads of a functional and happy family. Their main problem...
A poor relation taken in by the Rostovs, Sonya has a brief romance with Nikolai but then falls...
Andrei's younger sister, Marya, is terrorized by her father and becomes a deeply religious and...
An aging politician who is out of favor with the court of Alexander, Prince Bolkonsky is a...
Liza is a pretty good example of how there just are no one-note characters in Tolstoy. She starts...
This character might well be the only stock type that Tolstoy puts into the book. There's a whole...
A beautiful and sexually free woman, Helene becomes Pierre's wife, then cheats on him and falls...
These guys are dynamic duo of the totally perverse Kuragin clan. Just how can a dysfunctional...
A young man from an aristocratic but poor family, Boris is a no-holds-barred striver and social...
This lady, Boris's mom, is a good example of a Tolstoy technique that boosts the realism of the...
Julie is a pretty minor character, and so it's probably for the best that she isn't much more...
Emperor of France and the would-be creator of a European empire, Napoleon is also an actual...
Kutuzov is an old general brought out of retirement to be the commander in chief during...
Bagration is our counterpoint to Kutuzov. If Kutuzov is general as poet, all feeling feelings and...
You know what's interesting about these two guys? If you take them separately, not much. But...
A near-angelic peasant imprisoned with Pierre, Platon is endlessly optimistic, kind, and...
This is the guy who introduces Pierre to Freemasonry and becomes Pierre's mentor. He dies right...