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« War and Peace"- an epic novel by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, describing Russian society in the era of the wars against Napoleon in 1805-1812.
This is the last part of the novel - the fourth volume. In addition, there is an epilogue, a summary of which you can find on this page.

WAR AND PEACE. Volume 4

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PART ONE

Calm, luxurious Petersburg life goes on as before: “because of the course of this life, great efforts had to be made to realize the danger and the difficult situation in which the Russian people found themselves. There were the same exits, balls, the same French theater, the same interests of the courts, the same interests of service and intrigue.

On the day of the battle of Borodino, Anna Pavlovna Sherer had an evening, the flower of which was the reading of the letter of the patriarch by Prince Vasily. Prince Vasily was famous for the art of reading: he casually either lowered or raised his voice, closed his eyes and howled. The reading of the letter had a political significance: several important persons were present at the evening, who had to be ashamed of their trips to the French theater and inspired to a patriotic mood. The news of the day in Petersburg was the illness of Countess Bezukhova. “Everyone knew very well that this illness came from the inconvenience of marrying two husbands at once, and that the Italian’s treatment consisted in eliminating this inconvenience.”
The next day, news spreads about the victory of the Russian troops near Borodino. Prince Vasily proudly says that he has always been sure that Kutuzov is the only person who is able to defeat Napoleon. A few days later comes the news of the surrender of Moscow to the French. Now everyone calls Kutuzov a traitor, and Prince Vasily says that "nothing else could have been expected from a blind depraved old man."

Helen commits suicide with a large dose of drugs. Officially, in society they say that she died from a terrible attack of chest sore throat.

It seems to us, contemporaries, that while half of Russia was conquered, all people, young and old, were busy only sacrificing themselves, saving the fatherland or crying over its death. In reality, this was not the case. Most of the people of that time did not pay any attention to the general course of affairs, and were guided only by the personal interests of the present. And these people were the most useful figures of that time. “Only one unconscious activity bears fruit.

And a person who plays a role in a historical event never understands its significance. “In the army that was retreating beyond Moscow, they hardly spoke or thought about Moscow, and, looking at its conflagration, no one swore to take revenge on the French, but thought about the next third of the salary, about the next parking lot, about the Matryoshka-marketer and the like” .

Among these people is Nikolai Rostov. A few days before the battle of Borodino, he goes to Voronezh to buy horses for the regiment. There is a revival in the city on the occasion of the arrival of many wealthy families from Moscow. Nikolai makes a splash among the young ladies with his relaxed manner of dancing, trying to drag himself behind one married blonde. At the ball, Rostov meets with Princess Mary's aunt, who invites him to her place. Princess Mary lives with her aunt. At the thought of the princess, Nikolai feels a sense of shyness, even fear. He tells the governor's wife about his sincere thoughts. Rostov says that he really likes Princess Marya, that he more than once perceived the circumstances of their meeting as a sign of fate, but he is bound by a promise to his cousin Sofya. The governor believes that Nikolai's state of affairs is not hopeless, and promises to help.

Rostov comes to Princess Marya. The princess, seeing Nikolai dear to her heart, immediately changed. For the first time, new, feminine breast notes sounded in her voice; “her suffering, striving for good, humility, love, self-sacrifice - all this now shone in those radiant eyes, in a thin smile, in every line of her tender face.” Rostov "felt that the creature that was before him was completely different, better than all those that he had met so far, and better, most importantly, than himself."

After a meeting with the princess, all former pleasures for Nikolai lost their charm.

Nicholas meets Princess Mary in the church and sees "a touching expression of sadness, prayer and hope" on her face. "That's the angel! He spoke to himself. “Why am I not free, why did I hurry with Sonya?” And involuntarily he imagined a comparison between the two: poverty in one and wealth in the other of those spiritual gifts that Nicholas did not have and which therefore he valued so highly. “Dreams about Sonya had something cheerful, toy in them. But thinking about Princess Mary was always difficult and a little scary. How she prayed! he remembered. It was evident that her whole soul was in prayer. Yes, this is the prayer that moves mountains, and I am sure that her prayer will be fulfilled, Why do I not pray for what I need? More mine! Get me out of this terrible, hopeless situation!” And Nicholas, with tears in his eyes, prays as he has never prayed. At this moment, Lavrushka brings Rostov a letter from Sonya, in which she refuses Nikolai's promises and gives him complete freedom. Sonya did not immediately decide on this step. Countess Rostova was obsessed with the desire to marry her son to Princess Mary, Sonya was an obstacle to this. The Countess complicates Sonya's life in every possible way, but, seeing that this is to no avail, she asks the girl with tears to sacrifice herself and cut off her ties with Nikolai. Thus, Sonya would repay all the good deeds that the Rostov family did for her. But Sonya cannot give up the meaning of her life - and decides to forever associate herself with Nikolai. The girl sees that Prince Andrei and Natasha love each other and, if the prince recovers, they will get married. And then Nicholas, due to the relationship that will be between them, will not be able to marry Princess Mary. Prince Andrei is getting better, and Sonya writes a letter to Nikolai.

Pierre is being held along with other suspicious prisoners. The French arrange something like a trial, the main purpose of which is to accuse them of arson. Pierre feels like an insignificant "sliver that has fallen into the wheels of an unknown to him, but correctly operating machine." Bezukhov is brought to the brutal French General Davout. Davout accuses Pierre of espionage, and Pierre realizes that his life hangs in the balance. He says his name, speaks of his innocence. Davout and Pierre look at each other for a few seconds, and this look

Saves Pierre: they realized that they are both children of humanity, that they are brothers. But here Davout is distracted by the adjutant, and Pierre, among other prisoners, is led to execution. Bezukhov understands that it was not people who sentenced him to death, it was all the fault of the circumstances. The prisoners are taken two by two to the pit, shot, and then buried. The prisoners do not understand what is happening and do not believe what will happen. “They could not believe, because they alone knew what life was for them, and therefore did not understand and did not believe that it was possible to take it away.” The French, who are burying the executed, are pale and frightened, their hands are trembling. Pierre should go in tandem with the factory one, but he is being led alone. Bezukhov cannot understand that he is saved, that he and all the others were brought here only to be present at the execution. Pierre looks at the execution of the factory worker to the end, without turning away, as he did before. He sees the factory worker himself adjusting the knot at the back of his head when he is blindfolded. After the shots, Bezukhov comes up to the pit and sees how the shoulder of the executed man fell convulsively and rose, but "already shovels of earth were falling all over his body." After the execution, one young French rifleman does not return to his company, but, “like a drunk, staggers, taking a few steps back and forth to support his falling body.” In Pierre’s soul, after what he saw, “it was as if that spring had been pulled out, on which everything was held and seemed to be alive, and everything fell into a heap of senseless rubbish. He destroyed faith in the improvement of the world, and in the human, and in his soul, and in God.

Bezukhov was announced that he was forgiven and was now entering the barracks of prisoners of war. In the barracks next to Pierre lives a small man who immediately interests Bezukhov. Pierre fancied "something pleasant, soothing and round in these disputed movements, in this well-organized household in the corner", "in the singing voice of this man there was an expression of affection and simplicity." This soldier's name is Platon Karataev, he treats Pierre with potatoes, asks about his family. Plato is sincerely saddened by the news that Bezukhov has no parents, no children. Karataev also tells his story: “how he went to a strange grove beyond the forest and got caught by a watchman, how he was flogged, tried and given to the soldiers.” But Plato is not upset, but rejoices at this event, because his brother, who has five children, was supposed to go to the soldiers, while Plato has no children. Pierre, after talking with Karataev, feels "that the previously destroyed world with new beauty, on some new and unshakable foundations, was erected in his soul." “Platon Karataev forever remained in Pierre’s soul the strongest and dearest memory and personification of everything Russian, kind and round. The whole figure of Plato was round, his head was completely round, a pleasant smile and large brown tender eyes were round. He was always busy with something: he cooked, sewed, planed, stitched boots, and only at night allowed himself conversations and songs. Plato's speech is sprinkled with sayings full of deep wisdom. Karataev “loved and lived lovingly with everything that life brought him, and especially with a person - not with some famous person, but with those people who were before his eyes. He loved his mutt, loved his comrades, the French, loved Pierre, who was his neighbor; but Pierre felt that Karataev would not have been upset for a moment by parting from him. And Pierre began to feel the same feeling towards Karataev.

Having learned about her brother's serious wound, Princess Marya goes to him, despite the dangers on the road, and carries her son to him. The princess comes to the Rostovs and, seeing Natasha, understands that this is "her sincere comrade in grief, her friend." In the face of Natasha, Princess Marya saw "an expression of boundless love for everything that was close to a loved one, an expression of pity, diligence for others and a passionate desire to give everything of oneself in order to help them." Both Natasha and Princess Marya understand that Prince Andrei will die soon. He is alienated from the earthly world, and all turned into "the eternal, unknown and distant, whose presence he always felt." If earlier the prince was afraid of death, now he understands that "love is God, and to die means for me, a particle of love, to return to the common and eternal source." Princess Marya and Natasha understand the full significance of what is happening to Prince Andrei and, after his death, they cry not from their personal grief, but “from the reverent tenderness that seized their souls before the consciousness of the simple and solemn mystery of death that happened before them.”

PART TWO

Historians recognize the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazan to the Kaluga road and to the Tarutinsky camp as one of the most important events of the war of 1812. They attribute the glory of this brilliant feat to various people. But this movement was not planned by anyone, but happened by itself, because. the Russian army, not seeing persecution behind them, naturally leaned in the direction where the abundance of food attracted it.

Kutuzov alone understood that the "beast" near Borodino was hit, it only remained to find out whether he was strong or not. That is why Kutuzov used all his strength to keep the Russian army from useless battles. But the need for the offensive of the Russian army was expressed in countless signs: an abundance of provisions in Tarutino, information about the inaction of the French, good weather, a long rest for Russian soldiers, etc.

By chance, the Cossacks discover that the left flank of the French army is not protected, and Kutuzov, realizing that he cannot prevent a "useless battle", "blesses the fait accompli." The Cossacks attack the left flank of the French and put them to flight. If they continued to pursue the French, then “they would have taken Marat and everything that was here, but it was impossible to budge the Cossacks when they got to the booty and prisoners. Nobody listened to commands. The French, meanwhile, come to their senses and begin to shoot. “The whole battle consisted only of what the Cossacks of Orlov-Denisov did; the rest of the troops only lost a few hundred people in vain. But the main result of the battle was as follows: "a transition was made from a retreat to an offensive, the weakness of the French was exposed, and the impetus was given that the Napoleonic army was only expecting to start a flight."

Napoleon, neither with awards nor with tougher discipline, can prevent the death and disintegration of his troops. Having learned about the Battle of Tarutino, the French decided to punish the Russians, and Napoleon gave the order to march. “The rustle of the Tarutino battle frightened the beast, he rushed forward to shoot, ran to the hunter, went back, forward again, back again and, finally, like any animal, ran back, along the most disadvantageous, but along the familiar old track.”

Pierre has already been in captivity for four weeks, his life is full of hardships, but he joyfully endures his position. All his life, Pierre sought agreement with himself - he sought this in Freemasonry, in the dispersion of secular life, in the heroic feat of self-sacrifice, in romantic love for Natasha; he sought it by way of thought, and all these searches and attempts deceived him. “And he himself, without thinking about it, received this peace and this agreement with himself only through the horror of death, through deprivation and through what he understood in Karataev.” The highest consent of a person now seemed to Bezukhov the absence of suffering, the satisfaction of needs, the freedom to choose occupations. Only here, in captivity, did Pierre appreciate the pleasure of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he was thirsty, talking with a person when he wanted to talk.

The French troops begin to march, the prisoners are treated very badly, those lagging behind were ordered to be shot. During the overnight stay, Pierre is not allowed to see the prisoners and he laughs, looking at the starry sky: “And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me! And they caught all this and put it in a booth, fenced with boards! My immortal soul is being held prisoner! Ha, ha, ha!”

Kutuzov, like all old people, slept little at night. He thinks about whether the beast is mortally wounded or not. Learning about the “crazy, convulsive throwing of Napoleon’s troops,” Kutuzov cries and says in a trembling voice: “Lord, my creator! You heeded our prayer... Russia is saved. Thank you, Lord!

The French troops are fleeing, their nearest target is Smolensk. Nothing can stop them, Kutuzov understands this very well and strives with all his might to counteract the offensive of the Russian troops. Nevertheless, the highest ranks of the army wanted to distinguish themselves, and therefore they tried to cut off, overturn the French, and as a result, they lost thousands of people. The French army continued its disastrous path to Smolensk.

PART THREE

After the Battle of Borodino, the French army ceased to exist. This proved that the power that decides the fate of peoples lies not in battles, not in armies, but in the spirit of the troops. “The cudgel of the people’s war rose with all its formidable and majestic strength and, without asking anyone’s tastes and rules, with stupid simplicity, but with expediency, without understanding anything, it rose, fell and nailed the French until the entire invasion died.”

The guerrilla war begins. Denis Davydov establishes the first partisan detachment. There were hundreds of partisan detachments of various sizes, they "destroyed the Great Army in parts." Denisov decides, together with Dolokhov's detachment, to attack the French transport with a large load of cavalry things and Russian prisoners. Denisov sends the peasant Tikhon Shcherbatov, who was with his party, to take the language (that is, a man from the enemy column). An officer comes to the detachment with a package from the general, and Denisov, with surprise and joy, recognizes Petya Rostov in him. Petya asks Denisov to stay in his unit.

At this time, Tikhon Shcherbaty returns, the partisans see him running away from the French, who fire at him from all trunks. It turns out that Tikhon captured the prisoner yesterday, but, because. he turned out to be "faulty and even cursed", Tikhon delivered him alive to the camp. Tikhon is trying to get another "language", but he is discovered. The partisans laugh at Shcherbaty, "yes, his face shines with self-satisfied fun." Tikhon is the most useful and brave man in the party. He is a simple man, doing the hardest work, "no one else opened it in the event of an attack, no one else took it and beat the French."
Petya is in a happy, excited state of joy, he feels great, Denisov, Tikhon are considered heroes and want to go into business with them. Dinner with the partisans, Petya worries about the captive boy Vincent, whom the Russians call Vesentius, and asks to be fed.

Dolokhov arrives at the detachment, and Petya volunteers to go with him to the enemy camp. They change into French dress. Dolokhov behaves boldly and fearlessly, directly asking the French about their number, about the whereabouts of officers, and so on. Everything goes well, Petya kisses Dolokhov in delight. The next day the partisans attack the French. Denisov asks Petya not to stick his head out, but in the excitement of the attack, he forgets about it and jumps under the bullets. Petya falls - a bullet has pierced his head. Denisov, seeing the murdered Petya, recalls his words: “I'm used to eating something sweet. Excellent raisins, take all. “And the Cossacks looked back with surprise at the sounds similar to the barking of a dog, with which Denisov quickly turned away, went up to the wattle fence and grabbed it.”

Among the Russian prisoners recaptured by Denisov and Dolokhov was Pierre Bezukhov.

Pierre spent a lot of time in captivity, the attitude of the French towards the prisoners was getting worse and worse, because they themselves had nothing to eat. Bezukhov learns that there is nothing terrible in the world. He learned that just as there is no position in which a person would be happy and completely free, so there is no position in which he would be unhappy and not free. Karataev is getting weaker every day, and he is being killed. “The dog howled from behind, from the place where Karataev was sitting.”

Pierre comes to the conclusion that life is God, and therefore one must love this life as it is, with all the suffering and deprivation. Life is a continuous movement, dying, a person merges with God.

The partisans free the prisoners. “Hussars and Cossacks surrounded the prisoners and hastily offered some dresses, some boots, some bread. Pierre sobbed, sitting in the middle of them, and could not utter a word; he hugged the first soldier who came up to him and, crying, kissed him.

From the beginning of the frosts, the flight of the French took on the tragic character of people freezing and exhausted to death around the fires.

Having burst into Smolensk, they killed each other for provisions, robbed their stores, and when everything was looted, they ran on. Everyone thinks about their own salvation.

PART FOUR
Princess Marya and Natasha, after the death of Prince Andrei, did not dare to look life in the face. They are completely absorbed in their pure sadness, to recognize the possibility of the future seemed to them an insult to the memory of the prince.

Princess Marya was the first to be called to life, because she had to deal with her nephew, understand the reports. Natasha began to avoid everyone, sat all day in the corner of the sofa and "looked where he had gone, on the other side of life."

News of Petya's death came to the Rostovs' house. This emotional wound brought Natasha back to life, made her forget about personal grief.

The countess is on the verge of insanity, and for three weeks Natasha lived without getting out with her mother, because only her gentle, affectionate voice calmed the countess. "A month after the news of Petya's death, the countess left her room half dead and not taking part in life - an old woman." Natasha, however, was brought to life by a spiritual wound. “Suddenly, love for her mother showed her that the essence of her life - love - was still alive in her. Love woke up and life woke up.

A passionate and tender friendship was established between Natasha and Princess Mary. They spend all the time together, say tender words to each other. Friendship mutually enriched both: Natasha understood and fell in love with a previously incomprehensible virtue, while Princess Marya discovered faith in life, in the pleasures of life.

At the end of January, Princess Marya and Natasha go to Moscow.

The Russian army is exhausted by long marches, and Kutuzov understands that it is only necessary to follow the French at some distance and not give battles, because. the enemy has already been defeated.

The Russian command, on the other hand, wants to distinguish itself, and therefore they give battles, prisoners are taken. Kutuzov is accused of mistakes, the sovereign is not pleased with him. Such is “the fate of those rare, always lonely people who, comprehending the will of providence, subordinate their personal will to it. The hatred and contempt of the crowd punishes these people for the enlightenment of higher laws. "The source of this extraordinary power of insight in the sense of occurring phenomena lay in the popular feeling that he carried in himself." And the people, understanding this feeling, chose Kutuzov, against the will of the tsar, as representatives of the people's war. “And only this feeling put him on that highest human height, from which he, the commander in chief, directed all his forces not to kill and exterminate people, but to save and pity them.”

Kutuzov, a representative of the Russian people, feels that his role in the salvation and glory of Russia has been played. Kutuzov does not understand why it is necessary to continue the war in Europe, and Alexander the First takes his place. “There is nothing left for the representative of the people's war but death. And he died."

Pierre, after his release, is overwhelmed with a joyful sense of freedom. If earlier he was looking for the meaning of life, now he realized that it does not exist and cannot exist. Bezukhov, thanks to Platon Karataev, gained faith in a living, always felt god. “Now he learned to see the great, eternal and infinite in everything and joyfully contemplated around him the ever-changing, eternally great, incomprehensible and endless life.”

The people around immediately noticed the changes in Pierre. “Before, he talked a lot, got excited and listened little; now he was rarely carried away by conversation and knew how to listen in such a way that people willingly expressed their most intimate secrets to him. His new feature disposed people to Pierre: “recognition of the possibility of each person to think, feel and look at things in his own way; recognition of the impossibility of words to dissuade a person. Practical cases no longer terrified Pierre, a judge appeared in him, deciding what should and should not be done.

Moscow, meanwhile, is filled with returning residents, construction begins. Pierre also comes to Moscow, and, having learned that Princess Mary is in the city, he goes to her. Some lady in black is sitting next to Princess Marya, and Bezukhov thinks that this is her companion. Imagine Pierre's surprise and embarrassment when Princess Marya says that the lady in black is Natasha. “He blushed joyfully and painfully painfully,” Pierre smelled of long-forgotten happiness, and he understands that he loves Natasha. Princess Marya and Natasha talk about the last days of Prince Andrei, about their experiences. They never talked to anyone, not even to each other, about it. Pierre is happy from the realization that Prince Andrei relented before his death and saw Natasha.

Bezukhov, in turn, tells the women about his adventures, about his new thoughts. "He talked about it in a way that he had never told anyone about it before, as he had never thought about it with himself." “Now, when he told all this to Natasha, he experienced the rare pleasure that women give when listening to a man - not smart women who try to remember a story in order to enrich their minds; but the pleasure that real women give, gifted with the ability to choose and absorb into themselves all the best that is in the manifestations of a man, ”

Princess Mary and Natasha, after Pierre's departure, discuss the conversation that took place. They agree that Prince Andrei and Pierre are special men, and therefore they were so friendly and loved each other so much. Natasha, with a playful smile, which Princess Mary had not seen on his face for a long time, notices that Pierre "has become some kind of clean, fresh, as if from a bath - morally from a bath."

After the conversation, Pierre cannot fall asleep for a long time and decides that everything should be done so that Natasha becomes his wife. The next day, Bezukhov goes to dine with Princess Mary and sees that Natasha has become the same as he knew her almost as a child and then the bride of Prince Andrei. “A merry interrogative gleam shone in her eyes; there was an affectionate, strangely playful expression on his face. The whole next evening, Pierre sat in the princess's house, because. I felt like I couldn't leave. Left alone with Princess Mary, Bezukhov tells her about his love for Natasha, that he cannot imagine his life without her, and asks for help. Princess Marya speaks of her confidence that Natasha will fall in love with Pierre, promises to arrange everything, but for now she advises Bezukhov to go to Petersburg. The whole next period, Pierre lives in a state of happy madness, love overflows his heart, and he loves all people.

Princess Mary, seeing the change in Natasha, was at first upset: “Did she really love her brother so little that she could forget him so soon?” But then she realizes that the power of life awakened in Natasha is unstoppable, unexpected even for the girl herself, and therefore there is nothing to reproach her for.

Princess Marya tells the girl about her conversation with Pierre, Natasha says that she loves him. Princess Mary is crying: she is happy for Natasha.

War and Peace EPILOGUE

War and peace EPILOGUE summary.

Part 1

Seven years have passed since the war of 1812. Natasha in the 13th year married Pierre. In the same year, Count Ilya Andreevich died: too many blows fell on his head. With his death, the old family fell apart. The money affairs of the Rostovs are completely upset, there are twice as many debts as estates. But Nikolay does not refuse the inheritance, because. sees in this an expression of reproach to the sacred memory of his father. The estate was sold under the hammer at half price, and half of the debts still remained unpaid. In order not to be put into a debt hole, Rostov enters the military service in St. Petersburg and lives with his mother and Sonya in a small apartment. Nikolai appreciates Sonya very much, feels himself in unpaid debt to her, but understands that "there is not enough in her that would make him love her." Nikolai's situation is getting worse and worse. But the idea of marrying a rich heiress, as a way out of the current situation, was disgusting to him.

Princess Marya comes to visit the Rostovs, Nikolai meets her with "an expression of coldness, dryness and pride", showing with all appearance that he does not need anything from the princess. The princess feels in an uncertain position after this meeting, she needs to find out what Nikolai is covering up with his cold tone.

Nicholas, under the influence of his mother, makes a return visit to the princess. The conversation turns out to be dry and strained, but Princess Marya understands that this is only an outer shell, while the soul of Rostov is still beautiful.

It becomes clear to the princess that he behaves this way because of pride: “he is now poor, and I am rich.” "For several seconds they silently looked into each other's eyes, and the distant, the impossible suddenly became close, possible and inevitable."

In the autumn of 1814, Nikolai married Princess Marya and with his wife, mother and Sonya moved to Lysy Gory to live. Nikolai devoted himself entirely to the household, the main thing in which is the peasant worker. “He learned from the peasants both techniques, and speeches, and judgments about what is good and what is bad,” only having become related to them, he begins to boldly manage the economy, which brings brilliant results. Men from other estates come to ask Nikolai to buy them, and even after his death, the people keep a pious memory of his management for a long time: “The owner was ... in advance a peasant, and then his own. But he didn't give a damn. One word - owner. With his wife, Nikolai converged closer and closer, every day discovering new spiritual treasures in her.

Sonya lives in Nikolai's house, Countess Marya cannot get rid of her evil feelings for her. Natasha somehow explains to Countess Marya why Sonya has such a fate: something is missing in her, she is an "empty flower", and therefore "everything has been taken away from her."

The Rostovs have three children, Countess Marya is expecting another child. Natasha with her four children is visiting her brother, everyone is waiting for the return of Pierre, who left for St. Petersburg two months ago. Natasha has gained weight, expanded, now it is difficult to recognize the former Natasha Rostova in her. “Her features now had an expression of calm softness and clarity. Now only her face and body were often visible, but her soul was not visible at all. One strong, beautiful and prolific female was visible. Very rarely now the old fire was lit in her, ”Everyone who knew Natasha before marriage is surprised at the change that has taken place in her. “One old countess, who understood with a maternal instinct that all Natasha’s impulses had only the need to have a family, to have a husband,” wonders why the rest do not understand this. Natasha does not take care of herself, does not look after her manners, the main thing for her is serving her husband, children, and home. Natasha is very jealous, demanding of her husband, Pierre completely obeys the requirements of his wife. In return for this, he can have his whole family, Natasha not only fulfills, but also guesses her husband's desires. Natasha always adheres to her husband's way of thinking. Pierre saw himself reflected in his wife and feels happy in his marriage.

Natasha is no longer able to bear the separation from her husband, and, finally, he arrives.

Pierre tells Nicholas about the latest political news, says that the sovereign does not delve into any matters, that the situation in the state is heating up, that

everything is ready for the revolution. Pierre assures that it is necessary to organize a society, maybe even illegal, in order to be useful. Nikolai does not agree with this, recalls that he took an oath: “Tell me now Arakcheev to go at you with a squadron and cut down - I won’t think for a second and go.”

Nikolai discusses the conversation with his wife. He considers Pierre a dreamer, but Rostov does not care that Arakcheev is not good, he has enough of his own pressing problems. Countess Marya feels a certain limitation of her husband, knows that he will never understand everything that she understands, and therefore loves him even more, with a hint of passionate tenderness. Nikolai is delighted with his wife's constant desire for the infinite, eternal and perfect.

Pierre talks to his wife about important state affairs awaiting him. But Platon Karataev, according to Bezukhov, would not approve of his career, but family life, because. “I wanted to see beauty, happiness and tranquility in everything.”

Nikolai Bolkonsky was present at the conversation between Nikolai and Pierre, and this made a strong impression on him. Nikolenka adores Pierre, idolizes him, but he does not represent his father in the guise of a specific person, but considers him a kind of deity. And the boy has a dream. He and Uncle Pierre walked ahead of a huge army and joyfully approached the goal. But suddenly Uncle Nikolai appears in front of them in a formidable pose, ready to kill the first one who moved forward. Nikolenka turns around and sees that it is no longer Uncle Pierre standing next to him, but his father, Prince Andrei, and caressing him. The boy interprets this dream in this way: “Father was with me and caressed me. He approved of me, he approved of Uncle Pierre. I know they want me to study. And I will study. But someday I will stop; and then I will. Everyone will know, everyone will love me, everyone will admire me. Yes, I will do what even he would be pleased with ... "

Part 2

Tolstoy once again narrates about the historical process, about the fact that it is not the individual who makes history, but the masses of the people, guided by common interests, make it. Personality is important in history only to the extent that it understands and accepts these interests.

“It has been seven years since the 12th year. The agitated historical sea of Europe has subsided to its shores. It seemed quiet; but the mysterious forces that move mankind continued their action.

Tolstoy argues that many accidents and coincidences made it possible that Napoleon came to power.

Natasha married Bezukhov in 1813. This “was the last joyful event in the old Rostov family. In the same year, Count Ilya Andreevich died, and, as always happens, the old family fell apart with his death.

Before his death, the count, "sobbing, asked for forgiveness from his wife and in absentia from his son for the ruin of the estate - the main guilt that he felt for himself."

“Nikolai was with the Russian troops in Paris when the news of his father's death came to him. He immediately resigned and, without waiting for it, took a vacation and came to Moscow. The state of money affairs a month after the death of the count was completely outlined, surprising everyone with the enormity of the amount of various small debts, the existence of which no one suspected. There were twice as many debts as estates.

Relatives and friends advised Nicholas to abandon the inheritance. But Nikolay saw in the refusal of the inheritance an expression of reproach to the sacred memory of his father and therefore did not want to hear about the refusal and accepted the inheritance with the obligation to pay debts.

The creditors, who had been silent for so long, being bound during the life of the count by that indefinite but powerful influence that his dissolute kindness had on them, suddenly all filed for recovery.

“Nicholas was given neither time nor rest, and those who, apparently, felt sorry for the old man who was responsible for their loss, now ruthlessly attacked the apparently innocent young heir in front of them, who voluntarily took upon himself the payment.

None of the turnovers proposed by Nikolai succeeded; the estate was sold under the hammer at half price, and half of the debts still remained unpaid. Nikolai took the thirty thousand offered to him by his son-in-law Bezukhov to pay that part of the debts that he recognized as monetary, real debts. And in order not to be put in a hole for the remaining debts, which the creditors threatened him with, he again entered the service.

It was impossible to go to the army, where he was in the first vacancy of a regimental commander, because the mother now held on to her son, as to the last bait of life; and therefore, despite his unwillingness to remain in Moscow in the circle of people who knew him before, despite his disgust for the civil service, he took a place in the civil service in Moscow and, taking off his favorite uniform, settled with his mother and Sonya in a small apartment, on Sivtsev Vrazhka.

Natasha and Pierre lived at that time in St. Petersburg, having no clear idea about the situation of Nicholas. Nikolai, having borrowed money from his son-in-law, tried to hide his plight from him. Nikolai's situation was especially bad because with his one thousand two hundred rubles of salary he not only had to support himself, Sonya and his mother, but he had to support his mother so that she did not notice that they were poor. The countess could not understand the possibilities of life without the conditions of luxury familiar to her from childhood, and incessantly, not understanding how difficult it was for her son, she demanded either a carriage, which they did not have, to send for a friend, or expensive food for herself and wine for son, then money to make a surprise gift to Natasha, Sonya and the same Nikolai.

Sonya ran the household, looked after her aunt, read aloud to her, endured her whims and secret dislikes, and helped Nikolai hide from the old countess the state of need in which they were. Nikolai felt indebted to Sonya for everything she did for his mother, admired her patience and devotion, but tried to move away from her. He seemed to reproach her in his soul for being too perfect, and for the fact that there was nothing to reproach her for. It had everything for which people are valued; but it wasn't enough to make him love her."

“The situation of Nicholas became worse and worse. The idea of saving from your salary turned out to be a dream. He not only did not put off, but, satisfying the requirements of his mother, he owed on trifles. There was no way out of his situation."

“In the autumn of 1814, Nikolai married Princess Marya and moved with his wife, mother and Sonya to live in Lysy Gory.

At the age of three, without selling his wife's estate, he paid the remaining debts and, having received a small inheritance after the deceased cousin, he also paid the debt to Pierre.

Three years later, by 1820, Nikolai arranged his money affairs in such a way that he bought a small estate near the Bald Mountains and negotiated the redemption of his father's Otradnoye, which was his favorite dream.

Starting to manage out of necessity, he soon became so addicted to housekeeping that it became his favorite and almost exclusive occupation. Nikolai was a simple master, did not like innovations.

By 1820, Natasha “already had three daughters and a son, whom she passionately desired, and now she herself fed. She grew stouter and broader, so that it was difficult to recognize in this strong mother the former thin, mobile Natasha. Her features were defined and had an expression of calm softness and clarity. In her face, as before, there was not that incessantly burning fire of animation, which constituted her charm. Now only her face and body were often visible, but her soul was not visible at all. One strong, beautiful and prolific female was visible. Very seldom did the old fire ignite in her now.

"And in those rare moments when the old fire was kindled in her developed beautiful body, she was even more attractive than before."

This woman is completely devoted to the family. “Natasha did not follow that golden rule followed by smart people, especially the French, and consisting in the fact that a girl, when she marries, should not sink, should not abandon her talents, should take care of her appearance even more than in girls, should to seduce her husband in the same way that she had previously seduced a non-husband. Natasha, on the contrary, immediately abandoned all her charms, of which she had one unusually strong one - singing. She is what is called, sank. Natasha did not care about her manners, nor about the delicacy of her speeches, nor about showing her husband in the most advantageous positions, nor about her dress, nor about embarrassing her husband with her exactingness. She did everything contrary to these rules. She felt that those charms that instinct had taught her to use before would now only be ridiculous in the eyes of her husband, to whom from the first minute she gave herself completely - that is, with all her soul, leaving not a single corner open to him. She felt that her connection with her husband was not held by the poetic feelings that attracted him to her, but was held by something else, indefinite, but firm, like the connection of her own soul with her body.

Fluffing up curls, putting on robrons and singing romances in order to attract her husband to her, it would seem to her as strange as decorating herself in order to be pleased with herself. To adorn herself in order to please others - perhaps now this would be pleasant for her - she did not know - but there was absolutely no time. But the main reason why she did not do singing, or toilet, or thinking about her words, was that she had absolutely no time to do this.

“The subject that Natasha completely immersed herself in was the family, that is, the husband, who had to be kept so that he belonged inseparably to her, the house, and the children who had to be carried, given birth, fed, educated.

And the more she penetrated, not with her mind, but with her whole soul, with her whole being, into the object that occupied her, the more this object grew under her attention, and the weaker and more insignificant her forces seemed to her, so that she concentrated them all on one and the same thing, and yet she did not have time to do everything that she seemed to need.

“Natasha did not like society in general, but she especially valued the company of her relatives - Countess Marya, brother, mother and Sonya.

She cherished the company of those people to whom, disheveled, in a dressing gown, she could walk out of the nursery with a joyful face and show a diaper with a yellow spot instead of green, and listen to consolations that now the child is much better.

Natasha sank to such an extent that her costumes, her hairstyle, her inappropriately spoken words, her jealousy - she was jealous of Sonya, of the governess, of every beautiful and ugly woman - were the usual subject of jokes of all her relatives. The general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife's shoe, and indeed it was. From the very first days of their marriage, Natasha made her demands. Pierre was very surprised at this completely new view of his wife, which consists in the fact that every minute of his life belongs to her and the family; Pierre was surprised at his wife's demands, but was flattered by them and obeyed them.

Pierre's subordination consisted in the fact that he did not dare not only to court, but did not dare to speak with a smile with another woman, did not dare to go to dinners in clubs, to dinners in order to pass the time, did not dare to spend money for a whim, not he dared to leave for long periods, except on business, among which his wife included his studies in the sciences, in which she did not understand anything, but to which she attributed great importance.

In return for this, Pierre had every right to have in his house not only himself, as he wanted, but also the whole family. Natasha in her house put herself on the foot of her husband's slave; and the whole house walked on tiptoe when Pierre was studying - reading or writing in his office. As soon as Pierre showed some passion, so that what he loved was constantly fulfilled. As soon as he expressed a desire, Natasha jumped up and ran to fulfill it.

The whole house was guided only by the imaginary orders of her husband, that is, the desires of Pierre, which Natasha tried to guess. The image, the place of life, acquaintances, connections, Natasha's activities, the upbringing of children - not only everything was done according to the expressed will of Pierre, but Natasha tried to guess what could follow from Pierre's thoughts expressed in conversations. And she correctly guessed what the essence of Pierre's desires consisted of, and once, having guessed it, she already firmly held on to what she once chose. When Pierre himself already wanted to change his desire, she fought against him with his own weapons.

So, in a difficult time, forever remembered by Pierre, Natasha, after the birth of the first weak child, when they had to change three nurses and Natasha fell ill from despair, Pierre once told her Rousseau's thoughts, with which he completely agreed, about the unnaturalness and harm of nurses. With the next child, despite the opposition of her mother, doctors and her husband himself, who rebelled against her feeding, as against a thing then unheard of and harmful, she insisted on her own and since then she fed all the children herself.

“After seven years of marriage, Pierre felt a joyful, firm consciousness that he was not a bad person, and he felt this because he saw himself reflected in his wife. In himself he felt all good and bad mixed up and obscuring one another. But only what was truly good was reflected on his wife: everything that was not entirely good was thrown away.

After arriving from St. Petersburg, Pierre told Denisov and Nikolai the latest news. “The situation in Petersburg is this: the sovereign does not enter into anything. He is completely devoted to this mysticism (Pierre did not forgive anyone for mysticism now). He's only looking for peace."

“... There is theft in the courts, in the army there is only one stick: shagistika, settlements - they torment the people, they stifle enlightenment. What is young, honestly, is ruining! Everyone sees that it can't go like this. Everything is too tight and will certainly burst, - said Pierre (as, since the government exists, peering into the actions of any government, people always say). “When you stand and wait for this stretched string to burst; when everyone is waiting for an inevitable upheaval, it is necessary to take hand in hand as much as possible and as many people as possible in order to resist the general catastrophe. Everything young and strong is attracted there and corrupted.

One is seduced by women, another by honors, the third by vanity, money - and they go to that camp. There are no independent, free people like you and me. I say: expand the circle of society ... let there be not only virtue, but independence and activity.

Pierre called for vigorous activity. His ideas are very close to the ideas of the Decembrists.

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Epilogue of the novel "War and Peace" As in a real family, several completely different worlds lived together in the Bald Mountain house, which, each holding its own peculiarity and making concessions to one another, merged into one harmonious whole.

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Alfred Appel, a student of Vladimir Nabokov, recalled one of his mentor's lectures: “...Suddenly Nabokov interrupted the lecture, walked, without saying a word, along the stage to the right wall and turned off three lamps under the ceiling. Then he descended the steps - there were five or six of them - into the hall, trudged heavily along the entire aisle between the rows, accompanied by the astonished turn of two hundred heads, and silently lowered the curtains on three or four large windows ... The hall plunged into darkness. ...Nabokov returned to the stage, climbed the steps and went to the switches. “In the firmament of Russian literature,” he announced, “this is Pushkin!” A lamp flashed in the far left corner of our planetarium. “It's Gogol!” A lamp flashed in the middle of the hall. "It's Chekhov!" The lamp on the right flared up. Then Nabokov again descended from the stage, went to the central window and unhooked the curtain, which flew up with a loud bang: “Bam!” As if by magic, a wide, dense beam of dazzling sunlight burst into the audience. “And this is Tolstoy!” Nabokov thundered.

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The epilogue is the logical conclusion of the main idea of the novel - thoughts about the destiny of man, about how to live. Tolstoy showed two main paths that a person chooses: for some, the main thing is external well-being, external values (wealth, career), for others, spiritual values (life is not only for themselves).

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For Prince Andrei, this is the need to express oneself, to accomplish something big; for Pierre, Princess Mary - to do good; for Natasha - to love. And to love for her means to be happy herself and give happiness to another person. In the epilogue, we see heroes who have found true happiness along this path. In the sense of deep satisfaction with one's life. Pierre, after a long and difficult search, found happiness in the harmonious fusion of social activities and a happy family life. The idea of a family sounded in the epilogue of the novel.

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We think… we think… Chapter 1.12 – why is Pierre's arrival a joyful event for everyone? For wife, children, old people, servants? 2. Pierre and Natasha are a good family? 3. Princess Marya as a wife and mother. What was the main thing for Princess Mary in raising children?

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She strives not for an external result, not for the children to be comfortable for her, obedient and quiet, but for them to grow up to be good, kind people. Mitya was naughty at the table, Nikolai ordered not to give him sweets. The boy fell silent - the external result was achieved. But the mother sees the boy's gaze and understands: with this punishment, bad feelings entered the child's soul - envy and greed. And this is much more important to her.

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Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy managed to do something unique - to show the poetry and prose of family life in their inseparable connection. In his happy families there is prose, but there is no earthiness. Prose does not contradict the high poetry of feelings and attitudes. Here Natasha meets Pierre, who stayed in St. Petersburg longer than the agreed time, with evil, unfair reproaches. But Pierre believes that it is fear for his son, excitement, and not Natasha herself. He understands that Natasha loves him. Therefore, he does not take offense at his wife. Natasha was afraid of being a hindrance to her husband in his affairs, she believed in them, with deep respect for everything that concerned her husband's spiritual life. This is the main thing.

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And Pierre, with his characteristic tolerance and ability to understand another person, forgives Natasha outbursts of irritation and anger. This episode teaches a lot. The significance of a happy family life in the system of main human values is emphasized by the writer with a reference to Platon Karataev. Pierre tells Natasha: "He would approve of our family life." Platon Karataev, according to L. Tolstoy, is an exponent of the national spirit, folk wisdom.

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The image of Nikolai Rostov, Pierre expresses the views of the Decembrists, and Nikolai objects. It is Nicholas who believes that he must obey the government. Whatever it is. Why is such a kind, generous, noble person like Nikolai Rostov in such a terrible position? He doesn't think. Why is it limited, why doesn't it reflect? Why doesn't he think? By nature, such that he cannot, or does not want, is afraid to think? He doesn't want to complicate his life. A person who does not want to think, even a kind and noble person, may turn out to be an accomplice of the dark forces. Not everyone can think about everything in the world, can they? There are people who are not disposed to analysis and reflection.

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Or a person's life may develop in such a way that he does not have the strength and time to think. What should such a person do in order not to turn out to be a blind executor of someone else's evil will or simply someone else's mistakes? Do not participate in what you do not understand. It's worthy. And for this sometimes you need more courage than for the most risky action. Only a courageous person, having cast aside pride, can say to himself and others: “I don’t understand this well. And therefore I cannot, I have no right to act.

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In the epilogue, the main characters of the novel are depicted in the mature time of their lives. Showing their selfless service to people (society or just family, relatives), Tolstoy describes them with love. The untimely cut short life of Prince Andrei has not disappeared either - Nikolenka Bolkonsky, worthy of his father, is growing up. The attitude of the author to Nikolai Rostov is not so unambiguous. While his scary words are just words, he is cute. However, this image contains a warning to all of us: from blindly following generally accepted views, from an uncritical attitude to reality. From thoughtlessness.

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The final question: what kind of life is real: to live for yourself or for others? How should life be lived? It was very important for Tolstoy to show through the fate of Natasha that all her talents are realized in the family. Natasha - the mother will be able to educate in her children both the love of music and the ability for the most sincere friendship and love; she will teach children the most important talent in life - the talent to love life and people, to love selflessly, sometimes forgetting about themselves; and this study will take place not in the form of notations, but in the form of daily communication of children with very kind, honest, sincere and truthful people: mother and father. And this is the real happiness of the family, because each of us dreams of the kindest and most just person next to him. Pierre's dream came true...

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Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" can be called "an encyclopedia of man and life." This work is fanned with love for the Motherland, pride in its past. The writer showed on the pages of the book everything that a person faces: with good and evil, love and hate, wisdom and stupidity, life and death, war and peace. The writer endowed his "favorite" characters with a beautiful soul. And only he was able to show it with such force and persuasiveness.

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Introduction

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy is an artist of great and powerful talent, a philosopher who talks about the meaning of life, the destiny of man, the enduring values of earthly existence. All this is fully reflected in his largest and most beautiful creation - "War and Peace". Throughout the novel, the author thinks a lot about topics of interest to him. In our fast-flowing time, it is almost impossible to force oneself to read slowly his colossal work, but how it is necessary for us, the young, to be imbued with the “Russian spirit”, patriotism, true nationality, and not with the fuss that has been so actively planted lately by various sources. Tolstoy's philosophy is difficult to understand, but necessary. And the epilogue of the novel "War and Peace" opens the door to the author's secret pantry. One can agree or disagree with the writer who worked in the middle of the 19th century, we - the readers of the 21st. But a true artist foresaw the changes coming in time, and brilliantly said about it. “Just as the sun and every atom of ether are a sphere complete in itself and at the same time only an atom of the whole, inaccessible to man, so every personality bears its goals in itself and meanwhile wears them in order to serve inaccessible to man. common goals," said L.N. Tolstoy.

Epilogue - the final part of the work, in which the denouement of the plot, the fate of the characters is finally clarified, the main idea of the work is formulated. The epilogue is the summary of the novel. In Leo Tolstoy's novel, the role of the epilogue is extremely great. Firstly, it logically completes the plot of the work, and secondly, the epilogue contains the author's philosophical and life position, assessment of plot events and characters. Let us consider how the authors of the novels "War and Peace" achieve these goals. In Tolstoy's novel, the two independent parts of the epilogue correspond to the above two goals. Tolstoy's philosophical position is so remote from the plot of the work that it could exist independently, as a philosophical treatise. The plot denouement (the first part of the epilogue) occupies a significantly smaller part of the epilogue.

The first part of the epilogue is rich in the expression of the author's position, like Tolstoy's entire novel. It contains only a description of the facts that emphasize Tolstoy's position, and the author skillfully inserts numerous suggestive thoughts into the description of these facts. The writer shows us his heroes after the events of the war of 1812 (the action of the epilogue takes place in 1821). Pierre became a wonderful husband, a family man and, according to Tolstoy, a real person. That first life cycle, which Tolstoy planned for his hero, passed with honor. What's next for the hero? Quiet cozy family life? Estate occupation? No. The author gives a completely different answer to these questions: Pierre is waiting for new tests. Tests associated with the participation of the hero in a political circle. Tolstoy proves to us that “people are like rivers” changing all the time, looking for something, striving for something, and this desire for harmony, for truth makes them “quite good”.

In the epilogue, we see the ideal of a woman created by the writer. Princess Maria and Natasha Rostova, once romantic girls, become good friends of their husbands, faithful mentors of children, true guardian angels of the family hearth. They are limited to the range of family problems, but gradually affect their husbands. So, Nikolai Rostov involuntarily softens under the influence of his wife, becomes more tolerant of human weaknesses and imperfections. And when nevertheless "breaks down", it is Mary who helps her husband find peace of mind.

I was surprised by the image of Natasha. She became strong and wise. By this time, she already had three daughters and a son. The heroine has gained weight, and now it is difficult to recognize the former Natasha Rostova in her: “Her features now had an expression of calm softness and clarity. Now one of her face and body was often visible, but her soul was not visible at all.” She does not at all resemble that girl, graceful, cheerful, which Tolstoy introduces us at the beginning of the novel. The meaning of Natasha's life is in motherhood. Namely, the writer himself represents the fate and destiny of a woman.

But Tolstoy speaks not only about the values of the family. The writer talks about the political changes that took place in Russian society after 1812. Tolstoy intended to write a continuation of the novel, where he would show the Decembrist uprising. It can be assumed that Pierre would not have remained aloof from such great events. And Natasha? She would follow her husband. But we are left with only conjectures and conjectures. And in the epilogue - a specific description of the family way of life of people in the first quarter of the 19th century, their thoughts, experiences, dreams and thoughts. Much has changed since then, but patriotism, a reverent attitude towards the Motherland, the eternal value of the family and the upbringing of children have remained unchanged.

Thus, talking about the fate of the heroes in the first part of the epilogue. Tolstoy achieves that the very conclusions that the author wishes to receive from him come to the mind of any attentive reader, despite the fact that the author himself does not formulate these conclusions.

In the second part of the epilogue, Tolstoy asks a more global problem: “What drives the world, its history?” And he gives an answer to it: "The laws of necessity."

Tolstoy assigns a completely different role to a person: in his opinion, a person is only a pawn in a complex game, the outcome of which is predetermined, and the goal of the pawn is to understand the rules of the game and follow them and ultimately be among the winners, otherwise the pawn will punished by fate, the resistance of which is useless. A gigantic illustration of such a position is the picture of war, where everyone, including kings and great generals, is powerless before fate, where the one who better understands the laws of necessity and does not oppose them wins.

Conclusion

In the epilogue, the narration speeds up its course, the events are concentrated and given by the author in a general way. You understand that a continuation will follow, life does not end with the end of the novel. But the writer failed to continue the epic, to carry out his plan. The epilogue to the novel "War and Peace" was not so much an afterword to the work as a worthy conclusion to it, connecting it with life. For the heroes created by the artist's imagination continue to live in our memory.

In the epilogue of his novel, Leo Tolstoy not only depicted the end of a huge story woven from the cunning interweaving of human destinies, but also presented his own historical and philosophical reflections on the law of endless mutual influences and interconnections of human life. It is this irrational law, elusive to the mind, that determines, in the author's opinion, the fate of peoples and individuals.

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Summary of War and Peace - Epilogue

Seven years have passed since the end of the War of 1812. In 1813, Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova got married. In the same year, Count Ilya Andreevich died, Nikolai inherited a lot of debts, the estate was sold at half price, but this was not enough to pay off even half of the debts. Nikolai had to enter the military service and live with his mother and Sonya in a small apartment in St. Petersburg. Rostov is very ashamed in front of Sonya, but he understands that he cannot love her. He also does not want to propose to Marya, as he is afraid that everyone will think that he will marry a rich bride in order to improve his affairs. Marya comes to visit the Rostovs, and Nikolai communicates with her stiffly and dryly. She thinks for a long time about his coldness and understands that Nikolai is very proud, and since he is now poor, and she is rich, that's why he does not show his feelings. Marya calls him to a frank conversation and everything is put in its place. In the autumn of 1814, Nikolai and Marya get married and, together with the Countess and Sonya, go to live in Bald Mountains.

By 1820, Nikolai puts all his affairs in perfect order and becomes an excellent owner: the estate flourishes and gives an excellent income. He and Maria have three children and are expecting a fourth. In December, Natasha comes to visit them with her three daughters and son, Pierre at this time is on business in St. Petersburg. Natasha has changed a lot: her family has become the meaning of her life. She does not take care of herself, very rarely goes out, devotes all her time to her children and her husband, guessing and fulfilling his every desire. Natasha is very jealous of Pierre for all women, although he gives her a reason. He's only been away for two weeks, and she misses her a lot. but upon arrival, she attacks him with reproaches that he was having fun in St. Petersburg, and she was alone with the children. Pierre is pleased, he knows that she was waiting for him and that the anger will now pass. Natasha completely fixed Pierre for herself and everything suits him, since they love each other and are very happy.

Pierre tells Nikolai and Denisov, who is also visiting the Rostovs, that a coup is expected in the country, since the emperor is not interested in state affairs. Nikolai does not agree with him, he does not want to go against the government, he only dreams of buying out the family estate and living a quiet, calm life, and the aspirations of the future Decembrist are already waking up in Pierre.

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