#boris drubetskoy

[sneakydraws]

Here it is

Everyone should watch but I'm a cheerleader right this instant btw

[lordbettany]

Lol, Aneurin is ridiculously gorgeous. Don’t you think?

Fuch yeah, he's every gay renaissance painter's dream..

[anotherfandomtrash]

Honorable mention

[violaobanion]

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

[lisiya-gori]

based on this

[thalassous]

I'm asking you for my dear guy Boris Drubetskoy with f8 and hewwo (and maybe Sonyer with c7 and catjam)

THESE TWO ARE DEF. MY FAVOURITES

[helenekuragina]

drawings from  war and peace  by  m.s. bashilov,  as commissioned by leo tolstoy.

in order:    anna mikhailovna, prince vassily, and hélène at anna pavlovna’s soirée.  lise bolkonskaya.  anna pavlovna’s soirée.  natasha and boris.  ippolit kuragin.  pierre bezukhov.  sonya alexandrovna.  natasha dancing.

[lalaboy]

love just, drawin faces man. some singles below

[woundedwizard]

quick question: how old is boris?

[sneakydraws]

Thoughts re: casting the side characters part 1

[lordbettany]

[anotherfandomtrash]

Hmm, a picture with a bunch of 19th century russian uniform that I hate to draw *doesn’t look up any references*

[storkmuffin]

"You know my feelings for you!" There was no need to hes more: Julie's face beamed with triumph and self-satisfaction; yet she made Boris Aes everything that is said on such occasions, that he loved her and had never loved any woman more than her. She knew she could demand that in exchange for the Penza estates and the Nizhni Novgorod woodlands, and she got what she demanded.

The courtship and proposal by Boris Drubetskoy of Julie Karagin is exactly what marital negotiations in Seoul in 2023 are like. I'm SCREAMING.

[lisiya-gori]

(from @sxnyarostova​ on this post. thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about this!)

so, we all agree that sonya and boris are narrative foils, right. this much is obvious. two children who grow up on the periphery of the rostov family, in it but never really of it. neither of them ever able to forget this fact. sonya is natasha’s best friend growing up, and boris is nikolai’s. sonya has an innocent little incestuous childhood romance with nikolai, and boris (remember!) has one with natasha. nikolai and natasha can act like they don’t notice their friends’/crushes’ lack of financial and social stability, but boris and sonya have to notice. it’s the defining fact of both of their lives. I don’t think tolstoy meant to do this but the fact that we never get either of their full names has always felt important to me. it signifies that lack of stability, the fact that they’re not completely established or accepted in the society of the novel

ok, so they start off in the same place, but then their paths diverge rapidly. again, narrative foils. @alleyskywalker wrote me a whole yuletide request about this back in, I want to say 2017? and I wrote this a couple years ago, which touches on it. boris leaves, sonya stays. sonya devotes herself to the rostovs, boris devotes himself to the grind. I feel like you can even say something here about their respective involvement with hélène and dolokhov? it would work better if it were anatole, but still—

anyway. boris has a last name. he has a living parent, even (whose patronymic we do know). he grows up enmeshed in the rostov family, but he also has his own, separate identity that exists outside it. boris is a boy, and he has a mom who’s willing to work vasily kuragin for his benefit, so boris gets to have a career. that career is what really takes him away from the rostov family circle, and the more he advances in it, the greater that distance grows. boris doesn’t have a dad. presumably he had one at one point, but we never hear about it and nobody seems to care. boris isn’t living up to anyone’s legacy. he’s not in line to take over anyone’s estate or fortune, and he doesn’t have to deal with anyone else’s baggage. he’s as self-made as you can be in an aristocratic society. he’s anna mikhailovna’s son, and his own creation. 

sonya has a dad. he’s dead now, but we know he existed, and we know his name. sonya has parents who aren’t count and countess rostov, and no matter how much she wants to be part of the rostov family, she can’t get around this. she calls the countess maman, but she also says things like “if I were maman’s daughter.” it doesn’t really matter who alexander is or was; the only relevant thing about sonya’s “alexandrovna” is that it isn’t “ilyinichna.” sonya is a girl, so if she wants to escape the rostovs she has to do it through marriage. but who does sonya want to marry? the one guy who will allow her to tie herself to the rostovs forever. sonya doesn’t have a last name. people assume it’s rostova, even though there’s no actual indication that it is, and isn’t that sort of typical of her whole situation? she can never fully be a part of the rostov family, but she also can’t envision any kind of life outside it. she ends up permanently stuck in this sort of halfway position, a not-quite daughter, a not-quite sister, and eventually a not-quite wife and mother. 

so there you go: sonya has a patronymic but no last name, and boris has a last name but no patronymic, and you can absolutely read that as symbolic if you try hard enough

[thalassous]

WELL, BROTHERS.

witness to the arc towards the sun!

[ ID: Seven full body drawings in the center of the piece all walking in various paces towards the right. From left to right: Andrei Bolkonsky walks with his arms crossed, Boris Drubetskoy walks backwards and gazes at Andrei, Anatole Kuragin has his hands on Dolokhov's shoulders, Fyodor Dolokhov marches with his finger raised, Alphonse Berg walks calmly, Vaska Denisov walks cheerfully with a shrug, Petya Rostov jogs, and Nikolai Rostov is in a full sprint. Everyone is coloured in various shades of blue, while the background is a bright orange. END ID ]

[princeandreis]

im on pain meds and can hardly think straight but somethign something greg’s mom pushing him forward to leverage his connections and get in good with the roys something something anna mikhailovna propelling her son boris forward into high society to make sure theyre both taken care of