#war and peace part i: andrei bolkonsky

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WAR AND PEACE | война и мир dir. Sergei Bondarchuk PART I: ANDREI BOLKONSKY (1966)

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today i bring you another installment of real housewives of st. petersburg. tomorrow? who knows

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SIX the musical but it’s Kuragins messing everything up as ghosts

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i'm on yet another flight, i haven't slept since tuesday, and i no longer care if i alienate my entire audience so fuck it here's my magnum opus

HOTD Characters and their War and Peace Equivalents

Alicent - Andrei Bolkonsky

never been happy not even for a minute. lose their religion through a series of horrific events. bad marriages caused in no small part by the fact that they're gay and in love with their best friends. look at the sky one time and realise the war raging around them is meaningless and love is what life is truly about.

Rhaenyra - Count Rostopchin

my friend said this as a joke once and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it. chronically indecisive until they finally make a decision and it's emphatically not the correct one, fuck up massively at work one time and have to flee the city because of a baying mob, blamed for fire and destruction on an almost inconceivable scale but it was sort of inevitable anyway.

Aegon - Anatole Kuragin

start out as insufferable hedonists. fuck their sisters. like wearing a soldier's uniform but the whole 'fighting a war' thing is really cramping their style. become grievously injured and the things they say afterwards make you think oh this sucks actually maybe the human soul is redeemable whatever a person's past.

Viserys - Ilya Rostov

well-meaning and very very stupid. daughters who know what they want in life and what they want in life is TO FUCK. help my son is bankrupting me. make zero contingency plans for the future and die at the worst possible moment leaving their families in ruins.

Jacaerys - Boris Drubetskoy

desperately want to be important but are ultimately footnotes in other people's stories. i'm a MAN now MOTHER. in love with cool hot women who they fumble because they promise to marry them and then proceed to make them wait indefinite and unreasonable periods of time by which point it's out of their hands.

Helaena - Maria Bolkonskaya

sweet and gentle and generally considered to be weird outcasts by those around them. their fathers' least favourite children. have intense special interests that drive other people away. a little detached from the world. even when it seems like something good has happened to them it turns out to just be a fresh horror.

Daemon - Feodor Dolokhov

men who should be on a list. in love with teenagers and throw hissy fits when they don't get their way with them. meddled in foreign politics and are now super popular at home. go through a profoundly life-altering experience and for a minute you think they've redeemed themselves but it turns out they've learnt nothing.

thank you for reading i spent far too much time on this.

[shakespereansonnet]

when will my husband return from the war? (I say, while reading through the parts of war and peace that andrei bolkonsky is effectively not in)

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. ₊ ⊹ . ₊˖ . ₊ ENDLESS CHARACTER INSPIRATION FOR JOHANN DREYMAN : PRINCE ANDREI BOLKONSKY FROM WAR AND PEACE ( an analysis )

PRINCE ANDREI BOLKONSKY is primarily an inspiration for my character, JOHANN DREYMAN; almost unbeknown to me, merely because I had created Johann before I read nor watch War and Peace but indeed after an extensive first watch on the 1966-1967 USSR adaptation, it is an eerie coincidence that they are similar in philosophical approach thus it is necessary for me to write a character analysis, which sole purpose to omit my thoughts regarding Johann &. Prince Andrei as an archetype of a man, whom you might find as pompous or prideful, yet, romantic in all sense; prejudiced to nihilistic, before eventually acceptism.

“If everyone made war only according to his own convictions, there would be no war,” “Well, what makes you go to war?” asked Pierre. “What makes me? I don’t know. I have to. Besides, I’m going . . .” He paused. “I’m going because this life I lead here, this life— is not for me!”

PRINCE ANDREI BOLKONSKY is an educated, introspective &. intelligent young man however appears as aloof &. discontented; ruled by his father's stern wishes because of their aristocratic nature, thus convulsed Andrei to become a person of his family's wishes &. obligations in the society. It is similar to Johann, with both of his parents have their own wishes for their son to be a functional person in society, with different ideas however constrict it into a purpose: to live for their family. This aspect has integrated within their minds that their sole purpose is to live for their family, which makes them slowly malcontent because they believe that their existence is bigger than just a part of a family or a society, but does not mean that they believe that they live for themselves, but rather an idea, of which steer Andrei into military because the war is happening, &. something is bigger is happening; the idea is glory, a jingoistic approach upon existence. Whilst Johann does not befallen upon such notion, but Johann does fall upon the idea of servitude for justice; their lives, which were shaped to serve ménage's inclination, divers for self-liberation, regardless of the fact that what they had chosen was also a part of family's pride . . a token to flaunt upon.

Needless to say, Prince Andrei did get marry before succumb to his own desire to live in bigger perspective, he disregards his wife's fears of loneliness &. childbirth; this merely because he sees his wife as an extensive purpose of what his family's conformed him into, regardless of his amicable view upon the wife, however the marriage is another fulfillment of his duty, of which Johann sees almost similarly with his marriage with his wife, Anais. Yes, Johann was in love with Anais, but it is infatuation, of which become their bane because they got married within couple of years (a year or two), which also a demand from Anais' side of family because of their cultural &. religious aspect; thus making their marriage feels like a duty, regardless of Johann's lack of better word, love for her. They opened their marriage to release them from the burden of their marriage duty, but entitlement plays within Johann part thus it is almost chauvinistic, like Andrei is, when he admires his wife, but can't bring himself to love her more than an extensive purpose. Both feel their existences are bigger than what their family or society confirms them into, thus they throw themselves into their own 'glorified' way, of which disintegrates their marriage life to irreparable damage.

“To live only so as not to do evil, so as not to repent, is too little. I used to live that way, I lived for myself, and I ruined my life. And only now, when I live, or at least try to live” (Pierre corrected himself out of modesty) “for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I won’t agree with you, and you don’t really think what you’re saying.” Prince Andrei silently gazed at Pierre with a mocking smile. [...] “Maybe you’re right for yourself,” he went on after a brief pause, “[…] But I experienced the opposite. I used to live for glory. (What is glory? The same as love for others, the desire to do something for them, the desire for their praise.) So I lived for others and ruined my life— and not almost, but completely. And I’ve been at peace since I began living for myself alone.”

Because of the beauty of life upon his almost tragic death, Andrei fathomed that life is not about living for someone else nor an idea that can ruin you irrevocably, but rather accepting that life is for yourself; not a family member nor an idea, but savouring the little intercreate within life itself. However, regardless of his comprehension that life isn't servitude to an idea nor family, his view upon everything that is going on his life shall become nihilistic, with his deliberate distance from his family's relationship and despondent upon his wife's unfortunate passing in the childbirth; he has begun to live for himself, as an individual within a life, which is beautiful and enchanting--such despondency &. guilt makes him recluse, but valuing the life itself more. Which this also happen in Johann's life, with the loss of his baby due to an unfortunate accident Anais had endured; the man had realised that life is so precious, and he is living for himself than others. Indeed, Johann had a period of time where he was recluse and distancing himself from community, however he believes that he can allow himself to feel now. Within quietness & peace, these two men can finally mull upon their existence in life, of which they never try to think beforehand, as an individual than something else.

To love everything, everybody, always to sacrifice oneself for love, meant to love no one, meant not to live this earthly life. And the more imbued he was with this principle of love, the more he renounced life and the more completely he destroyed that dreadful barrier which, without love, stands between life and death. When, in that first time, he remembered that he had to die, he said to himself: “Well, so much the better.”

Andrei stays with the Rostov family and encounters Natasha Rostov. Natasha is irrepressible, joyful &. bursting with vitality and enthusiasm for life, which something Andrei lacks from the beginning of his adulthood, which makes Andrei intrigued. One night, Andrei overheard Natasha with, his soul there suddenly arose such an unexpected tangle of youthful thoughts &. hopes, contradictory to his whole life, which makes him feel a great peace washes all over him; life, by all means, is to live and love. However, Andrei &. Natasha's relationship will soon become a tragedy because upon their meeting before Andrei had to go away for a year, Andrei sees upon Natasha &. realises that how young &. naive that view of life can be, how his life can permanently damaging Natasha because he is bridled by tragedies. But he clings to the life Natasha could extend, even if it means through no words but acceptance once he is within his deathbed; that he had loved life and loved Natasha, thus his life has become so much better. Johann has the tendency to be shipped with someone who is way younger than he is; of which contradicts to his own conception on how he should do in personal relationship. he craves for the idyllic life between people around his age, but vitality / artlessness upon life possessed by someone else intrigues him; perhaps as a compensation for his lost youth, he gravitates himself for such relationship, but contemplates twice when it is getting serious than he expected; but eventually, as he contemplates further: it is fortunate that he could love someone, and enjoys life within this period of time. the guilt of knowing the somber side, shouldn't taint the enthusiasm for other life he could have.

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Awful Characters Round 1 Part 3 (4/8)

Propaganda under the cut!'

STARSCREAM

Literal war criminal. The more evil dude in Transformers, Megatron, gets more redemption stories than Starscream. You can’t fix him. But he was born alone in a wet-cardboard box okay.

The character ever! He’s a terrorist. He constantly tries to overthrow his leader. He’s the second-in-command of an army that does war crimes for fun. Every word out of his mouth is a lie. He’s pathetic. He’s just a silly little guy. He’s killed thousands. He’s IMMORTAL.

ANDREI BOLKONSKY

right so i may have seen some hateish??? for him??? i mean he's kind of a prick. a lot of a prick. especially to his late wife. and also doesn't take care of his kid that he had with said wife. we as fandom celebrate when he dies. I do personally like him tho. not sure why exactly, I just think he's funky (and also he isn't here)

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So basically the plot is based on one section of War and Peace, where Natasha Rostova and her best friend (who she calls cousin) Sonya Alexandrova go to Moscow + live with Natasha's godmother Marya Dmitrievna. I'm going to vague some character relations so you know who they all are to each other because I understand how it can be confusing hsjdjsfjsk.

Natasha is engaged to Andrei Bolkonsky, who is currently away fighting in the war. Andrei is close friends with Pierre (you know pierre). Pierre is unhappily married to Hélène Kuragina, who is sister to Anatole Kuragin. Anatole, Fedya Dolokhov and Pierre are friends. Andrei's sister is Mary, and his father is Prince Bolkonsky. Sorry this is probably really confusing HELP

But yeah it's pretty centric around Natasha, Pierre and Anatole and their part of the plot. I'm not going to like. Spoil the entire story but if you're having a hard time working out a certain part!! I can help!!!!

NO THAT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE THANK U 😭😭😭😭😭 i think ir was the relationships that was throwinf me off just. so bad. also i love the (you know pierre) i feel like ive been given a little medal i do know pierre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-pisces-conspiracy]

Characters of the novel "War and Peace"

Hi everyone!

This is my first dump. I'm learning to use SD and tumblr.

I forgot to sign their names. Characters:

Andrey Bolkonsky <spouses> Lisa Bolkonskaya (Meinen)

Pierre Bezukhov <spouses> Alice Kuragina <sibling> Anatoly Kuragin

Marya Bolkonskaya <sibling> Andrey Bolkonsky

“Poor thing! “She’s not beautiful at all,” — Anatol thought about Marya.”

This part broke my heart when I read the novel “War and Peace.”

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War and Peace (part I: Andrei Bolkonsky) (1966) Czech movie-poster by Jiří Stach

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Any Andrei x Anatole or Danatole drabble? *holds out spare change can*

*panics as my wallet (procreate file) opens and random coins and loyalty cards and stickers (risque war and peace art) fall to the ground* oh god oh fuck uhh

here's an old thing where i contemplated the possibility of andrei being caught off guard by anatoles moment of charm post hookup. i think i have like three more drawings of the same scene cuz andrei + hand kisses is just. yeah man

and an old danatole thing i found in the same file (dolokhovs design is so inaccurate by now lmao) uhh you are entitled to financial compensation if you recognise (and can read) the text lol

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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) 

4 

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) 

5 

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) 

6 

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)  

7 

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. 

9 

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. 

10 

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.

NEXT

[thalassous]

well, brothers, that's it for us! (tolstoy, I.III.XVI)

[ ID: Six, digital, fully rendered full-bodies of Nikolai Rostov, Vasily Denisov, Alphonse Berg, Fyodor Dolokhov, Boris Drubetskoy, and Andrei Bolkonsky. The background is yellow, and every character is a shade of blue. They are all walking at various speeds, with Nikolai running at the front. END ID ]

[pilarsofsalt]

good to know gazing up at the sky and having it change ur life is a universal experience

[maglor-still-lives]

hmm. imaginging a Sergei Bondarchuk adaptation of the Silmarillion

[the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever]

matchups under cut! expect lots of crack and crossovers and one particular dude???? (we didn't scan ships btw there were a lot and we were tired :c i know nothing)

part a

les amis de l'abc (les miserables) vs tsar alexander/napoleon bonaparte (war and peace)

geraldine/christabel (christabel) vs houzarde/flechard (ninety-three)

joly/bossuet/musichetta (les miserables) vs jekyll/lanyon (jekyll and hyde)

rodion raskolnikov/dmitri razumikhin (crime and punishment) vs myshkin/nastasya/rogozhin/aglaya (the idiot)

frog/toad (frog and toad) vs lysander/demetrius (a midsummer night's dream)

duncan/macbeth (macbeth) vs perry smith/dick hickock (in cold blood)

dorian gray/basil hallward/henry wotton (the picture of dorian gray) vs macbeth/lady macbeth (macbeth)

jia baoyu/lin daiyu (dream of the red chamber) vs eponine thenardier/marius pontmercy/cosette fauchelevent (les miserables)

eugenie/louise (the count of monte cristo) vs anne shirley cuthbert/gilbert blythe (anne of green gables)

rosencrantz/guildenstern (hamlet and rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead) vs macbeth/macduff (macbeth)

sebastian/charles (brideshead revisited) vs the tell-tale heart/the raven (the corresponding edgar allan poe things)

the tinman/the scarecrow (wizard of oz) vs iago/roderigo (othello)

tom buchanan/jay gatsby (the great gatsby) vs jane/rochester (jane eyre)

antonio/sebastian (twelfth night and/or the tempest) vs andrei bolkonsky/the lofty sky (war and peace/real life?)

dracula/jonathan harker (dracula) vs grantaire/alcohol (les miserables/real life)

maria/sir toby belch (twelfth night) vs lorenzo/jessica (the merchant of venice)

part b

arthur holmwood/jack seward (dracula) vs andrei bolkonsky/enjolras (war and peace/les miserables)

bohun/skrzetuski (with fire and sword) vs catherine/eleanor (northanger abbey)

eponine thenardier/cosette fauchelevent (les miserables) vs buttercup/westley (the princess bride)

pyotr verkhovensky/nikolai stavrogin (demons) vs jane/helen (jane eyre)

andrei bolkonsky/pierre bezukhov (war and peace) vs algernon moncrieff/ernest (jack) worthing (the importance of being earnest)

romeo/juliet (romeo and juliet) emma bovary/happiness (madame bovary)

andrei bolkonsky/speransky (war and peace) vs miles/ginger (vile bodies)

andrei bolkonsky/anatole kuragin (war and peace) vs elizabeth bennett/fitzwilliam darcy (pride and prejudice)

tybalt capulet/montparnasse (romeo and juliet/les miserables) vs christine daae/meg giry (the phantom of the opera)

marius pontmercy/enjolras (les miserables) vs henry clerval/victor frankenstein (frankenstein)

fyodor dolokhov/anatole kuragin (war and peace) vs gerald croft/eric birling (an inspector calls)

sir toby belch/sir andrew aguecheek (twelfth night) vs heathcliff/catherine earnshaw (wuthering heights)

athos/aramis/pothos/d'artagnan (3 musketeers) vs emma woodhouse/george knightley (emma)

tullus aufidius/coriolanus (coriolanus) vs fortunato/montresor (the cask of amontillado)

elizabeth bennett/emma woodhouse (pride and prejudice/emma) vs ishmael/queequeg (moby-dick)

ebenezer scrooge/jacob marley (a christmas carol) vs john watson/sherlock holmes (sherlock holmes)

part c

nick carraway/jay gatsby (the great gatsby) vs dorian gray/basil hallward (the picture of dorian gray)

orestes/pylades (greek mythology) vs helene kuragina/natasha rostova (war and peace)

nikolai rostov/tsar alexander (war and peace) vs hamlet/laertes (hamlet)

gilgamesh/enkidu (the epic of gilgamesh) vs maurice hall/clive (maurice)

polonius/the curtain (hamlet) vs benedick and beatrice (much ado about nothing)

ahab/starbuck (moby-dick) vs jonathan/david (the old testament)

fantine/sister simplice (les miserables) vs romeo montague/edmund of gloucester (romeo and juliet/king lear)

jean valjean/javert (les miserables) vs cyrano de bergerac/roxane/christian (cyrano de bergerac)

enjolras/courfeyrac/combeferre (les miserables) vs samwise gamgee/frodo baggins (lord of the rings)

john roxton/edward malone (professor challenger) vs romeo montague/tybalt capulet (romeo and juliet)

saint-just/robespierre (the danon case) vs sampson/gregory (romeo and juliet)

desdemona/emilia (othello) vs penelope/circe (the odyssey)

erik/raoul de chagny/christine daae (the phantom of the opera) vs fortinbras/horatio (hamlet)

horatio/benvolio montague/combeferre (hamlet/romeo and juliet/les miserables) vs the bear from war and peace/the bear from the winter's tale (what do you think. genuinely. /lh)

odysseus/diomedes (the odyssey) vs lord capulet/lord montague (romeo and juliet)

aramis/athos (the 3 musketeers) vs antonio/bassanio (the merchant of venice)

part d

benvolio montague/mercutio (romeo and juliet) vs mephistopheles/faustus (doctor faustus)

marius pontmercy/napoleon bonaparte (les miserables) vs rosencrantz/guildenstern/hamlet (hamlet)

mina harker/lucy westenra (dracula) vs violacesario/olivia (twelfth night)

horatio/laertes (hamlet) vs macbeth/banquo (macbeth)

gregor samsa/therapy (the metamorphosis) vs lancelot/arthur/guinevere (arthurian legend)

enjolras/laertes/france (les miserables/hamlet/real life) vs benvolio montague/tybalt capulet/mercutio (romeo and juliet)

arthur holmwood/quincey morris/jack seward (dracula) vs orsino/olivia/violacesario (twelfth night)

eugene onegin/vladimir lenski (eugene onegin) vs jonathan harker/mina harker (dracula)

hamlet/horatio (hamlet) vs malvolio/feste (twelfth night)

malcolm/macduff (macbeth) vs lorenzo/gratiano (the merchant of venice)

enjolras/grantaire (les miserables) vs rebecca/mrs danvers (rebecca)

elizabeth bennet/caroline (pride and prejudice) vs maurice hall/alec scudder (maurice)

brutus/cassius (julius caesar) vs tybalt capulet/paris (romeo and juliet)

puck/titania/oberon (a midsummer night's dream) vs louis/lestat (the vampire chronicles)

marya bolkonskaya/julie karagina (war and peace) vs jack seward/quincey morris (dracula)

raoul de chagny/erik (the phantom of the opera) vs benedick/claudio (much ado about nothing)

the bracket is here!!!!!!!

full matchups in rb :)