#andrew bolkonsky

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[presidentkittycherk]

well, goodbye.

hi pierr-ndrei anon hope this is a good start! i have so many random ideas bouncing around but heres a drawing based on the last snesance of book 8 chapter 21 of w&p hehe

[ethereal-maia]

12, 16, 23, & 37 for the theater ask?

12: favorite opening number?

Literally opening numbers are The Best part of musicals for me so this is a very difficult question!!!!! But the first musical I ever really campaigned to see was Six, and so seeing Ex-Wives performed in person was an absolutely magical experience <3

16: favorite female solo?

Always The Woman from Teeth and Moonfall from The Mystery of Edwin Drood have been absolute hits with me lately!!! Sonya Alone from Great Comet is one I can actually sing so that gets an honorable mention 🫶

23: what’s a song you like from a musical you don’t?

The Andrew Lippa take on A Little Princess is such an… interesting… musical in how it handles the source material, but there are two songs from it (Once Upon a Time and Soldier On) that do a rather good job of characterizing while also just being good songs!!

37: musical theatre moment that lives in your head rent free?

oh my fucking god. i think about one specific double-casting alllllll the fucking time. like what the fuck do you mean that old prince bolkonsky and his son andrey are typically played by the same actor. here have these videos. im killing myself.

[vsirin]

im writing up several very lengthy posts about war and peace sooo stay tuned for that... in the mean time someone plssss come talk to me about andrew bolkonski (affectionate) i love him so much

[drjohannn]

Name: Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky Weapon name: Austerlitz EGO: The same oak tree Details: Delusions of grandeur, Hatred of society Age: 32 Height: 185 cm Marital Status: widower Biography: Andrew was born into the family of Colour Fixer - Emerald Crone. From his early childhood, the boy, along with his sister Marya, was raised only by a strict but loving father, as his mother died shortly after his birth. He grew up to be a noble and respectable young man. He does not usually go out in public, as he dislikes people for their hypocrisy and emptiness, but for the sake of his pregnant wife Liza he comes to various meetings, at one of which he meets Pierre Bezukhov - he had not long ago moved away and, like Bolkonsky, was fascinated by the activities of one of high-ranking Fixer Napoleon. Deciding that he wanted a break from his tiresome family life, he applied for service in a subsidiary Office, opposing the one Napoleon was in. Seriously wounded, he is taken to an enemy hospital, but he still manages to return home. There he catches his wife's difficult labour, during which she dies before Andrei's eyes and he is left to bring up his son Nikolenka alone, with the help of his father and Marya. For several years he lives away from society and builds up a bond with Pierre, finally softening up and coming out in public. At one of the meetings he meets Natasha Rostova and falls in love with her, but asks for the sake of his father to wait for a decision on marriage for some time. The girl can not stand the wait and gets involved in an affair with Kuragin, for which Andrei breaks off the engagement and goes to the company Limbus. Character: Andrei is honest, decent, brave, responsible and noble man, but he is also not without a lot of minuses. Even among the team, he is known for his selfishness and arrogance, which are still downplayed if his colleagues really need help. Also, his connection with others is hindered by his tendency to introspect and his love of being alone - he often hovers in the clouds and tries to be away from various "gatherings". Nevertheless, some have still managed to find common ground with him and become great friends, for which he interacts with them much more gently in return. Facts: -His wife Lisa was the niece of Mikhail Kutuzov, the head of the subsidiary Office. -The oak tree that stands in the backyard of the Bolkonsky home is displayed on their family emblem. -He always carries a pocket watch with the family emblem and a picture of the family. -His father was a participant in the attempted attacks on one of the filial of the Lobotomy Corporation for valuable data, so he wants to find this place and try to save the remaining employees there. -Source: Leo Tolstoy - "War and Peace"

[finleyforevermore]

⭐NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 DREAM CAST⭐

Bryce Charles, Emilie Kouatchou, or Kanisha Feliciano as Natalya "Natasha/Natalie" Rostova

Denée Benton as Natasha in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Michael Arden, Josh Young, or Shafiq Hicks as Pyotr "Pierre/Peter" Bezukhov

Josh Groban as Pierre in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Emilie du Leslay or Lucy St. Louis as Sofya "Sonya" Alexandrovna Rostova

Ingrid Michaelson as Sonya in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Nathan Salstone, Daniel Tracht, Henry Thrasher, or Gavin Creel as Prince Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin

Park Kang Hyun as Anatole in the picture. (2021 South Korean production)

Kimberly Marable as Countess Hélène Vasilyevna Bezukhova

Amber Gray as Hélène in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Willemijn Verkaik, Micaela Diamond, Saycon Sengbloh, Brandi Chavonne Massey, or Eden Espinosa as Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova

Lulu Fall as Marya in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Jason Tam as Fyodor "Fedya" Ivanovich Dolokhov

Choi Ho Jung as Dolokhov in the picture. (2021 South Korean production)

Emily Rohm as Princess Mary Bolkonskaya

Gelsey Bell as Mary in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

Nick Rashad Burroughs as Balaga

Vitor Moresco as Balaga in the picture. (2018 São Paulo production)

Ben Crawford as Prince Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky and Prince Nikolay Andreevitch Bolkonsky

Nicholas Belton as Andrey in the top picture, Blake DeLong as Prince Bolkonsky in the bottom picture. (2016 Broadway production and 2013 Off-Broadway production respectively)

Andrew Samonsky as Prince Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (if Andrey and Bolkonsky isn't double casted)

Nicholas Belton as Andrey in the picture. (2016 Broadway production)

THEATRE CREDITS:

Bryce Charles - Wendy Darling in Lythgoe Panto's Peter Pan

Emilie Kouatchou - Christine Daaé in The Phantom of The Opera

Kanisha Feliciano - Ann in Flying Over Sunset, Maria in West Side Story, Christine Daaé in The Phantom of The Opera

Michael Arden - Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Josh Young - Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar

Shafiq Hicks - Tom Collins in Rent

Emilie du Leslay - Pearl in Starlight Express

Lucy St Louis - Christine Daaé in The Phantom of The Opera, Glinda in Wicked

Nathan Salstone - Chorus/Orpheus understudy in Hadestown

Daniel Tracht - Chorus/Orpheus understudy in Hadestown

Henry Thrasher - Pierre in Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Carnegie Mellon University)

Gavin Creel - The Wolf / Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods

Kimberly Marable - Persephone in Hadestown

Willemijn Verkaik - Elphaba in Wicked

Micaela Diamond - Lucille Frank in Parade

Saycon Sengbloh - Elphaba in Wicked

Brandi Chavonne Massey - Elphaba in Wicked

Eden Espinosa - Elphaba in Wicked

Jason Tam - The SQUIP in Be More Chill (Broadway), Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Emily Rohm - Jane Doe in Ride the Cyclone

Nick Rashad Burroughs - Lola in Kinky Boots

Ben Crawford - Erik in The Phantom of The Opera

Andrew Samonsky - Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[talesofpassingtime]

"Though with the intimacy now established between the wounded man and Natasha the thought occurred that should he recover their former engagement would be renewed, no one — least of all Natasha and Prince Andrew — spoke of this: the unsettled question of life and death, which hung not only over Bolkonski but over all Russia, shut out all other considerations."

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Welcome to the wondrous world of Andrew Davies, where you'll meet the high highs of his ability to condense and represent book dialogue, and the low lows of his sexual fetishes.

Andy was the screenplay writer of famous and infamous pieces such as Pride and Prejudice 1995, Wives and Daughters 1999, Northanger Abbey 2007, Sense and Sensibility 2008 (remember the disturbing seduction scene at the beginning?), War and Peace 2016 (of infamous "Andrei Bolkonski is the Russian Mr Darcy"), Les Miserables 2018, and Sanditon (2019-2023).

Basically after the success and iconic status of P&P 95 it was ever more and more difficult to just tell him to stop being weird on a screenplay.

I still love the ITV 1996 Emma for everything else. I love the cast and I think it is the only Emma movie that manages to condense the whole plot without having big gaps (1996 Miramax and 2020 even more have significant gaps on the Jane/Frank front), love the aesthetics... and there are many things like Knightley as a sport-ish farmer gentleman (2009) or as intensely frustrated and bewildered by his own feelings (2020) that started here, besides the daydreams and a sense of pathos for Robert Martin.

But, yeah, "Andy you weird little man, why" is a recurring theme of my comments on any of his screenplays except Wives and Daughters.

Listen say what you will about the 1996 Emma, but it definitely wins the prize for creepiest Emma adaptation if nothing else.

what the hell were the writers on? What were the characters on? I don’t remember if this bit is in the book, but if it was, who would include it???

Seriously, “I held you in my arms when you were three weeks old” and “do you like me as well now as you did then?” *romantic kiss* has to be the worst sequence of events in movie history.

who let this happen??? And why?????

[sneakydraws]

EVERYONE STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES @lindonwald DREW ME AN ANDRETOLE COMMISSION AND ITS THE REALEST SHIT

[perioddramasource]

WAR AND PEACE (2016)

Dir. Tom Harper

[comradebezukhov]

I love how the BBC WAP trailer goes “Everything has gone wrong, and there are a thousand reasons why.” as if it isn't because of Andrew Davies

[valntynebaby]

war and peace headcanon

- modern adaptation

- everyone is played by timothee chalamet

- pierre ? timothee chalamet

- andrei ? timothee chalamet

- natasha ? timothee chalamet

- anatole ? timothee chalamet

- everyone is timothee chalamet

[woundedwizard]

He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since childhood.

He woke up...

“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber.

Fascinating reaction to having war memories

[vsirin]

i made my blog title and description a little andrew bolkonski shrine if anyone even cares <3

[innerduckchaos]

How do you feel when your virtual lover suddenly dies in the novel.

[theteaisaddictive]

translations that keep his name as andrei:

translations that anglicise it to andrew: