List of War and Peace characters

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This is a list of characters in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace . Note that as the work was originally in Russian, some characters names are Romanized differently in different translations.

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Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. He is the son of famed Russian general Nikolai Bolkonsky, who raises Andrei and his sister Maria Bolkonskaya on a remote estate. Andrei is best friends with Pierre Bezukhov.

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References

  1. Commentary of N.M. Fortunatov to War and Peace novel for the edition Толстой Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22-х томах. Т.4. Война и мир. М. «Худож. лит.», 1979.