In Spring 2013, I enrolled in a lower-division undergraduate course called “Slavic 90A: Introduction to Russian Civilization”. During this class, we covered the geography, history and culture of the country. As one of our assigned readings, Lev Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” took a significant portion
Film Title & Year: War and Peace (2003) Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Length: 403 minutes, divided into three disks (phew!) Summary: “A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805-1812, including Napoleon’s invasion of
At the beginning of Book Three Part III, Tolstoy introduces two methods to view history. The first regards history as flowing in a continuous process, in which there “can be no beginning to any event”, whereas the other method attributes historical events as the result
We’re finally finished! Part One of the Epilogue of “War and Peace” starts off by recounting the actions of Napoleon and Tsar Alexander during imperial France’s failed campaign into Russia. Then the aftermath is shown. Lev Tolstoy reveals the faiths of the novel’s characters seven
Distinct Russian opera did not form until the 1830s. Italian-Russian composer Cavos entered the art in 1807, but did not particularly tailor his work to Russians until his patriotic Ivan Susanin (later adapted by Glinka) in 1815. Afterwards, composers like Verstovsky, Alyabyev and Glinka came
Tolstoy does an excellent job in portraying the feelings of confusion and fear during the midst of war. In Book One Part One, the reactions to the war are mixed. As a young soul who has returned to his homeland, Pierre is unintimidated by the
Russia includes many different ethnic peoples, who gather around a rich collective culture. Besides music, one of popular hobby during Tolstoy’s time was hunting. In Book Two Part IV of War and Peace, Tolstoy toys with the idea of a mysterious and undefinable Russian spirit
I got confused in this part due to pronouns: My professor let me know it was the elder Bolkonsky who cried, but due to my language processing of the word “he”, I imagined Prince Andrei in this scene. More specifically, I had imagined Prince Andrei
Tolstoy artistically expounds the intricacies of war through War and Peace. In the Appendix, Tolstoy later questions why men engage in war and kill one another. His answer is that there is an “elemental zoological law” that impels us to destroy each other (1315). The
In Spring 2013, I enrolled in a lower-division undergraduate course called “Slavic 90A: Introduction to Russian Civilization”. During this class, we covered the geography, history and culture of the country. As one of our assigned readings, Lev Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” took a significant portion
Film Title & Year: War and Peace (2003) Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Length: 403 minutes, divided into three disks (phew!) Summary: “A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805-1812, including Napoleon’s invasion of
At the beginning of Book Three Part III, Tolstoy introduces two methods to view history. The first regards history as flowing in a continuous process, in which there “can be no beginning to any event”, whereas the other method attributes historical events as the result
We’re finally finished! Part One of the Epilogue of “War and Peace” starts off by recounting the actions of Napoleon and Tsar Alexander during imperial France’s failed campaign into Russia. Then the aftermath is shown. Lev Tolstoy reveals the faiths of the novel’s characters seven
Distinct Russian opera did not form until the 1830s. Italian-Russian composer Cavos entered the art in 1807, but did not particularly tailor his work to Russians until his patriotic Ivan Susanin (later adapted by Glinka) in 1815. Afterwards, composers like Verstovsky, Alyabyev and Glinka came
Tolstoy does an excellent job in portraying the feelings of confusion and fear during the midst of war. In Book One Part One, the reactions to the war are mixed. As a young soul who has returned to his homeland, Pierre is unintimidated by the
Russia includes many different ethnic peoples, who gather around a rich collective culture. Besides music, one of popular hobby during Tolstoy’s time was hunting. In Book Two Part IV of War and Peace, Tolstoy toys with the idea of a mysterious and undefinable Russian spirit
I got confused in this part due to pronouns: My professor let me know it was the elder Bolkonsky who cried, but due to my language processing of the word “he”, I imagined Prince Andrei in this scene. More specifically, I had imagined Prince Andrei
Tolstoy artistically expounds the intricacies of war through War and Peace. In the Appendix, Tolstoy later questions why men engage in war and kill one another. His answer is that there is an “elemental zoological law” that impels us to destroy each other (1315). The