#anna pavlovna scherer

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WAR & PEACE (2016) 1.05 | dir. Tom Harper

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Juliet Stevenson would play a great Annette Scherer

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@adroitjackal tagged me!

rules: choose 4 of your favourite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe

I’ll tag @unfavorableinstigation and uhhhhh @jazzhandsmcleg, and anyone else who wants it

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here is a list of characters in the niche character bracket:

whit, of mice and men

catiche mamontova, war and peace

tom hamilton, east of eden

praskovya pavlovna zarnitsyna, crime and punishment

mikhail ivanovich, war and peace

ernest frankenstein, frankenstein

borachio, much ado about nothing

rosaline, romeo and juliet

anna pavlovna scherer, war and peace

petya ilyich rostov, war and peace

captain ramballe, war and peace

nastasya ivanovna, war and peace

margaret, much ado about nothing

anne, a little princess

vestinus, quo vadis

nastasya, crime and punishment

the following are characters that i am adding in myself, for lack of other dudes and because i feel like it, for transparency's sake:

17. osric, hamlet (hamlet girlies please do not hate me. osric appears in one scene)

18. peter, romeo and juliet

19. radney, moby dick

20. babet, les miserables (submitted by my sibling and as such is not on the spreadsheet)

since we have many war and peace guys, we will likely have a round 0 to narrow it down a bit :)

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Anna Pavlovna Scherer is SO me!

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War and Peace 10/198 -Leo Tolstoy

(the Princess Alexandra translation)

PART FIRST 

1 

1805, war in Europe has been on and off for thirteen years, now there is uneasy peace. European monarchs that overthrew the Bourbon king had no success against Napoleon, Britain is at war with France, Russia and Austria withdrew. Napoleon executed the Bourbon heir, Due d’Enghien and crowned himself emperor, while royal courts scoffed, he expanded his empire, annexes the republics of Liguria and Lucca and prepares to invade England. “The European powers, fearful of losing their own territories, think once more of war.”p.1 (the Princess Alexandra translation gives a brief summary of what’s going on time wise and I thank her for the slight context I might not be well versed in European history but it’s nice to have an inkling of what’s politically going on) 

A warning that if they aren’t warned they will be at war, if they still condone all of the atrocities of the antichrist Napoleon, they will de disowned, now tell about it. Anna Pavlovna Scherer greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin as he arrived at the reception. (it’s like a little get together) Vasili greeted Anna and asked her how her cough was, Anna asked how one can be well these days. Vasili can't stay as the English ambassador’s reception wasn’t cancelled, he says if they’d knew, they would have cancelled it for her. (Anna Pavlovna is like a celebrity socialite) She predicts the Viscount de Montemort connected to the Montmorencys and profound Abbe Morio will arrive. 

Vasili asked the chief object of his visit, if the dowager empress wants Baron Funke to be first secretary of Vienna, in his opinion he is wretched and he wants his own son to have it. Anna says Funke was recommended by the dowager empresses' sister. Anna was devoted to the empresses and would slap Vasili to speak ill of someone even connected to her. She changes the subject to his daughter, how unfair good things in life are distributed, like his children, he calls both his sons imbeciles, Ippolit an idiot and Anatol a nuisance. Anna suggests a wife, princess Bolkonsky, Vasili bemoans all the money he spends on Anatol and asks if the princess is rich, her father is stingy, but he can talk to her brother later this evening. Vasili asks for her to arrange it and he’ll be her faithful slave. (right out the gate with political monetary match making) 

2 

The higher society of Petersburg filled Anna’s drawing room, “people most widely differing in age and in character, but alike in that they all belonged to the same class of society.”p.4 Vasili’s daughter, Helene, was there and Ippolit, Montermort and Abbe Morio were also there and Princess Lisa Bolkonsky. After Lisa Bolkonsky arrived then came the illegitimate son of Count Bezukhof, and this was his first appearance in society, Pierre had yet to enter the service. The conversation picked up and Anna watched Pierre who watched the crowd, looking for something intellectual, “He stood waiting a chance to air his opinions, as young men are fond of doing.”p.5 (this has not changed) 

Montemort’s circle was discussing Duc d’Enghien’s murder, Anna asked for his account and calls over Helene who was admired for her beauty. (Prince Derek: “What else is there?”) Montemort gave his anecdotes that upon running into Duc d’ Enghien he threw a fit and avenged himself for it by having the duke killed. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky entered and found everyone in the room a bore, especially his wife. (douche) Anna asks if he’s getting ready for war, General Kutuzof wants him as his aide-de-camp and Lisa will go to the country. (she’s pregnant) Lisa tried to get his attention, but he turned away and took Pierre by the arm and will go to supper with him, as they attempt to leave, they catch sight of Helene. Vasili told Anna to train Pierre for him, he’s been living at his house for a month, this is his first time in society, and nothing will be more advantageous for a young man than a clever woman. (if only there was one at the party) 

3 

An elderly woman caught up to Vasili and asks about her son Boris, she can't stay in Petersburg. Vasili reluctantly listens to her, she will pay to have him put in the Guards, he says it will be hard to appeal to the emperor, try Prince Galitsin Sar Rumyontsof. The old woman was Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy, but she was poor and lost connections. (these are really the only things of value in high society your money and the friends you have because of it) He tells Vasili she never asked anything of him before but now begs in God’s name for him to do this Galitsin already refused. “Now influence in society is a capital which has to be economized lest it be exhausted.”p.8 Vasili knew that if he asked favors for everybody he’d have none left for himself, but Princess Drubetskoy’s appeal made him feel a pang of conscience, he owed her father for his career advancement and felt she was one of these women who got an idea in their heads and wouldn’t let it rest until their desires were met. He relents and will have her son admitted to the Guards, she also wants her son to be aide-de-camp to Kutuzof, he can't do that, so Princess Drubetskoy returned to the party.  

Viscount says if Napoleon remains on the throne another year French society will be destroyed. Pierre has heard that nearly all nobility has sided with him, the Viscount denies it after he murdered the duke, Pierre thinks it was a necessity. Pierre continues that since the Bourbons left the people are prey to anarchy, Napoleon is the only one to conquer it, he preserved the good and gained power for it. Viscount says if he used that power to restore the king he’d call him a great man. Pierre says his power was given by the people the Viscount believed the young man to be foolish, (well he’s not wrong there) after the revolution the people wanted freedom, Napoleon destroyed it. Anna Pavlovna was appalled at Pierre’s talk and asked how can a great man have someone executed without trial, Pierre smiled. Ippolit changed the conversation and told a story in broken Russian, it was incomprehensible why he told it but everyone was grateful for the clever way of stopping Pierre and the room broke up in other conversations. (yeah you’ll notice people have their Russian name and their French name and speak French because it’s fashionable at this time but political tensions are getting high between Russia and France) 

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The guests began to leave and congratulate Anna on her little party, Pierre was awkward, not knowing how to enter or leave a drawing room and his absentmindedness caused him to take someone else's hat but it was forgiven for his general simplistic goodness. (ok so Pierre is a simple socially awkward young man who’s easily influenced) Anna hoped to see him again and for him to change his opinions. “Opinions are opinions, and you can see what a good and noble young man I am.”p.12 Anna reminded Lisa about the potential match up of Anatol and her sister-in-law. She and Prince Ippolit, who wrapped a shawl around her as pretext for embracing her said it was a lovely evening and Ippolit waited for the Viscount who said the little Princess Lisa was charming. 

Pierre went to Andrei’s room, making himself at home, after being schooled in an abbe for ten years his father told him to make his choice but he still hadn’t found a career. He tells Andrei there is war against Napoleon, if the war was for freedom he would join but it’s not good to go against the greatest man in the world. Andrei dismisses it as childish talk. “If all men made war only for their convictions there would be no war,”p.14 It would be splendid but will never be, he doesn’t know why he’s going to war besides his life here not being to his taste. (so you’re that bored of your high class rich lifestyle and you beautiful pregnant wife you’d rather go off to war just to feel something) 

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Andrei’s wife Lisa joins them wondering why Anna Pavlovna never married and calls the men stupid for not doing so, they don’t know how to talk to women. Pierre says he can't understand why Andrei wants to go to war, she doesn’t either, why men can't live without war, women don’t want it or need it, she doesn’t want to hear of it and dreads it all. The men are selfish to desert her and expect her not to be afraid. Then she demands to know why Andrie’s changed towards her, she keeps pressing and starts to cry, Pierre makes to leave but Andrei stops him saying Lisa wouldn't deny his pleasure of company, Lisa accuses him of only thinking of his own pleasure and leaves them. (I wanna smack some sense into Andrei) 

They went to have supper on new dinnerware, Andrei tells him to never get married, at least until he sees the woman for what she is, or it will be a mistake, wait until he's old or everything good about him will be thrown away, wasted in a drawing room. (remember this) His wife is lovely but he wishes he wasn’t married, he only tells Pierre this because he loves him. (if only you could show some love to your pregnant wife) He talked of Napoleon, he has a goal, nothing will stand between it, but tie yourself to a woman you are a prisoner, tormented with regrets in drawing rooms, women are nothing, so don’t marry. (you sound like the man version of I’m a strong independent woman and don’t need no man then get caught in crippling loneliness by forty) Pierre wondered how he could speak like this, he is everything Pierre is not, Andrei tries to change the subject to Pierre, but what is there, Pierre is a bastard without a name or money. (yeah Andrei literally has everything Pierre doesn’t yet he doesn’t appreciate any of it and is telling his friend it’s all shit) Andrei gives him advice, to stop going to Kuragins, living that life he doesn’t understand it, women and wine. (so they’re like hedonists) Pierre was living with Vasili Kuragin, seeing his son Anatol’s dissipated life and all this time living this life he hasn’t come to any decision, but this evening decided not to go and promises not to again. (we’ll see how long this lasts) 

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At two in the morning Pierre thought it would be fun to go to Kuragins and gamble, but he gave Andrei his word, he wanted to have one last taste, he made two promises and reasoned pledges were conditional, consider you might be dead the next day, so he went to Kuragins. The party was mostly over, deeper in the house he heard voices and a bear. They invited Pierre in and got him drunk Dolokhof and Stevens were making a wager, Dolokhof won almost every game he was in, but he lost his head when drunk. Anatol broke a window and had Pierre pull out the frame. Dolokhof wagers he can drink a whole bottle of rum in one go sitting in the window if someone joins him he’ll double it to a hundred sovereigns but he pulls away as an officer worried for Dolokhof. After half an hour he swayed backwards then swung the empty bottle at the Englishman. As they congratulate him Pierre says he’ll do it without a bet and they call him crazy and pull him from the window. Anatol announces he’ll deceive, him he’ll make a wager tomorrow and Pierre follows the party outside with the bear. (is this just what Russians do get drunk and party with a random bear)  

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Vasili fulfilled the promise to Anna Drubetskoy and Boris entered the Semeonovsky regiment as an ensign, but wasn’t made an aide to Kutuzof. After Anna Pavlovna’s party Anna Drubetskoy went to rich relatives, the Rostofs, who were celebrating Saints day. The Count welcomed people and invited them to dinner, Countess Rostof was tired of it all and declared the last would be Marya Karagina and her daughter. The conversation turned to the sick old Count Bezukhof and his illegitimate son Pierre whose made bad friends of Vasili’s son after taking a bear to the house of an actress. The gang was to be arrested but they tied an officer to the bear and threw them into the Moika river. Bezukhof has many bastards, but Pierre is his favorite, but as Vasili is the immediate heir on his wife's side the fortune could go to either one. There was a commotion in the drawing room and a thirteen-year-old girl ran out hiding something and a bunch of youths stood at the door. Natasha embraced her parents and showed them her doll Mimi, the older boy Boris offered to call his mother a carriage and fetch Natasha who ran off laughing. 

8 

Only Nikolai and their cousin Sonya remained in the room and the conversation turns to the potential war, Boris is following his friend into it but Nikolai says it's not friendship he’s just drawn to war, he’s not good for anything else then they talk of Napoleon. “How much suffering, how much trouble, must we experience before we can have some joy in them! And even now! Truly there's more sorrow than joy. One is always filled with anxiety, always on the alert! This is the age when there are so many perils both for young girls and for boys.”p.30 (damn if you don’t feel this now) At least the Countess has a good relationship with her children, Natasha even tells her of her time with Boris and admits she spoils her while being strict with her eldest Vera. 

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Natasha waited for Boris to follow her and hid and watched as Nikolai ran into a crying Sonya, he kissed her when they left she called for Boris and asked him to kiss her. He called her absurd but couldn’t make up his mind, she went to do it, but he said to wait five years to marry at sixteen. (pay attention to this) The Countess was tired of receiving guests and ordered no more wanting to speak to her old friend, Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy and has her daughter Vera leave. She passes the two young couples and scolds her siblings, her brother for taking her inkpot and sister for running into the middle of a party. Natasha asks what does she have to worry about of their relationship, they don’t meddle between her and Berg, what does she know, she’s never loved anyone. (middle school girls are merciless) Vera threatens to tell their mother of her and Boris and the couples had enough and leave for the nursery, calling her Madame de Genlis. (she was a French noblewoman writer and educator I don’t see how this is an insult) 

The Countess told Anna her life isn’t rose colored even the country isn't restful, how can she manage it all alone in Moscow and Petersburg. Anna hopes she doesn’t know what it's like as a window without a protector. The Countess asks who she appealed to for Boris, Vasili ,same as he’s always been but it’s all she can do as her unlucky lawsuit ate up her money and doesn’t know how she can get his uniform, she hopes Count Bezukhof will help his godson. The Countess says he may leave him something, Anna says rich men are selfish, but she has to see him, her son’s fate depends on it. The Count says that it’s better to ask Pierre to come over. 

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In the carriage Anna tells her son to be considerate, be nice as he can, he only expects humiliation, but he’ll try for her sake. The doorman noticed their shabby clothes (how shabby could they be they aren’t threadbare are they if anything they’re last year’s style) and told them Count Bezukhof couldn’t take visitors, Anna pleaded that she is a relative, the doorman calls the footman to lead them. Vasili dismisses the doctor and greets them and Boris answers his questions without resentment. The Count’s prognosis has little hope, Anna tried to reassure him she's not a rival for inheritance and he knew he would have difficulty getting rid of her and tells her to wait until evening when the doctors expect a crisis, she can't wait. A sour faced niece enters and says it's not good, with a victorious attitude Anna tells Boris while she sees the Count go find Pierre and invite him to the Rostofs and Vasili is only too happy to have him off his hands as the Count hasn’t once asked for him.

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[kristabella]

La mode illustree, 1867

Your attention is an antique folio on the fashion of Napoleon III, printed in Paris, printer Firmin Didot freres, fils et Cie, in French. The book is in excellent condition, half-leather binding era, gold embossing, museum restoration with preservation of all fragments, size 37.2 x 26.5 cm; IV, 416 pages + 42 lithographs with watercolor era.

The authors of the drawings are artists of the famous dynasty, the daughter of the famous painter of historical genre and lithographer Alexandre-Marie Colin (fr. Alexandre-Marie Colin; 1798 - 1873). All of the sisters (Héloïse, Anais, Laura and Isabelle) were raised in the bohemian environment to which their father and his friends belonged: Delacroix, Géricault, Gavarnie, Gautier, de Musset and Deverey. Colin kept at home costumes from various eras, from Antiquity to the present. They came in handy for the artist's historical paintings. It would have been surprising if his daughters had not picked up his taste for art in such an environment. At that time art schools and academies were almost unavailable to women, so they had to learn from their father at home. It was thanks to Alexandre Colin that France received the best female illustrators of ladies' fashion magazines who worked in watercolor techniques.

Here is a women's magazine Illustrated Fashion, published in 1867, long before the active emergence of suffragettes on the historical scene in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. French fashion affected the aristocratic circles of Europe, including the Russian Empire, especially widely thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte.

At the beginning of the 19th century the upper echelons of Russian society communicated almost exclusively in French, as we see in the parlor of Anna Pavlovna Scherer in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Eugene Onegin keeps a bust of Napoleon in his study as a shrine, as an unsurpassed ideal. Bonaparte was great, managing to rise from the bottom of the career ladder to the throne of emperor, and could equally conquer the hearts of women and entire nations.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries France was a trendsetter. Numerous European publications, including Russian ones, reprinted the best clothes and shoes from French magazines. All this was worked out to the smallest detail, down to the last bow and strap, which was considered a special mark of quality.

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Gillian Anderson as Anna Pavlovna Scherer in War & Peace (x7)

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Anna Pavlovna Scherer (Gillian Anderson) Purple gown.. War And Peace (2016)... Costume by Edward K. Gibbon..

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Gillian Anderson as Anna Pavlovna Scherer in “War and Peace”...  

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Can any sensitive person find peace of mind nowadays?

Leo Tolsoty, War and Peace (Ch. 1)

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Andrei (at Anna Pavlovna's party): This is horrible I hate everyone here. 

Andrei (sees Pierre): Except you Pierre I love you.

submitted by @rorysnoseisahorcrux

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Gillian Anderson, in War & Peace (BBC)

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Anna Pavlovna: Hélène, I’ve been meaning to ask — are you and Count Bezukhov involved in a romantic relationship?

Hélène: No, we have a mutually beneficial relationship that means I get whatever I desire from him, like stability, and he gets whatever he desires from me.

Anatole, knows exactly what a sugar daddy is: Oh, sounds great!

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▪️Hélène Bezuchova and Anna Pavlovna Scherer▪️

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Twilight Moon: Twilight and Dash Title: Is This To Make Me Talk? I'll Never Tell You!

Rainbow tried her best to escape, but the ropes held too tightly.

"I need to know the parties involved to ensure that we go about this in the most optimal way!" Twilight stated firmly, "But, if you're being so obstinate, I'll be reading a book you said you couldn't get into until you talk... out loud...

'"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news." It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna.'"

Twilight was certain that she'd talk soon enough...