Both Tolstoy ... combat in War and Peace are enhanced by his personal experiences. He first served as an artillery officer in the Caucasus in various campaigns to assert Russian imperial rule ...

The classic Tolstoy novel which requires weeks and ... of Bonaparte’s armies at Austerlitz and Borodino. Life among the Russian aristocracy with its passion for good living and innate respect ...

His name was Leo Tolstoy. He’d go onto become a titan of Russian literature, the author of “War and Peace”, but he’d also become a key player in the political drama gripping Russia ...

thanks a lot Malloy extracted a 70-page section of Leo Tolstoy’s complicated 1869 Russian novel War and Peace as the basis for the musical. There’s a lot going on in the story, set in early ...