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For questions concerning the novel War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy. Use with the [leo-tolstoy] and [russian-language] tags.
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How did Denisov reappear in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?
While I didn’t find an explicit explanation in the book, it’s possible to speculate about it. The simplest solution is as follows.
Vasily Denisov has a clear historical prototype: Denis Vasilyevich Da …
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What was the original meaning of "rolling their eyes"?
Seems to be a mistranslation.
Rolling one’s eyes is a gesture “used to disagree or dismiss or express contempt”. The Russian phrase for it is «закатывая глаза». The novel says «выкатывая глаза» (liter …
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War and Peace: Russian troop movements in part 2, chapters 7 and 8
My understanding of the events. Nesvitski is sent with the order to “tell the hussars that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge […]; and the inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspe …
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Why did Russian corpses rot in "War and Peace", but not French?
These uneducated soldiers ascribe supernatural unhuman qualities to the invaders. A little further they suspect that the French military commander Napoleon possesses shape-shifting and undead capabili …
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How do Pierre and Natasha "lie to each other" in 'War and Peace'?
They really don’t.
1. The lie in question.
Beauvoir didn’t provide insight of her own here, it’s a paraphrase of certain arguments from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. Lawrence:
Better Anna Kare …
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