Common and distinctive features in the characters of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov (L. N. Tolstoy. “War and Peace”). Comparison of the images of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov from Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” Andrei’s attitude towards Pierre

What are the similarities between Andrei Balkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov in L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”, and what are their differences?? and got the best answer

Answer from Dorota[guru]
The indicated problems of “War and Peace” were in line with Dostoevsky’s thoughts about the hero who seeks, and what is good,” “what is evil.” But the writer contrasts the “cultural type” created by Tolstoy and personifying “goodness” (in Dostoevsky’s understanding) with another “ “cultural type”, striving for “pretty”, but never able to achieve it. In this inability to achieve “pretentiousness” Dostoevsky sees a characteristic feature of a person, symptomatic of the era, whose consciousness is doomed by historical circumstances to defend itself in the “chaos of concepts”. Dostoevsky outlines his “cultural type” in the sketch “For the Preface” in the March 1875 draft notes for “The Teenager.” Bolkonsky, Bezukhov and Levin are considered here by Dostoevsky as heroes of “petty pride”: they are capable of being spiritually reborn under the influence of a positive example or under the influence of the impact of an exceptional situation. The tragedy of the underground excludes for Dostoevsky’s hero the possibility of such a radical spiritual change.
In portraying his heroes, the author did not embellish or idealize them at all: he endowed Pierre and Andrei with contradictory traits, advantages and disadvantages. In their image, he presented ordinary people who are capable of being both strong and weak at certain moments of their lives, but who are able to overcome the internal struggle and independently rise above lies and routine, to be spiritually reborn and find their calling in life. Their paths are different, but at the same time they have a lot in common. And, in particular, the similarity lies in their mental ordeals, in the struggle. Pierre has his own weakness of character, cowardice, excessive gullibility and ideological impossibility. Andrei Bolkonsky - with pride, arrogance, ambition and illusory aspirations for glory.
Pierre Bezukhov is one of the central, most attractive characters of the novel. His image, like the image of Andrei Bolkonsky, is depicted in constant dynamics. The writer focuses on the almost childlike gullibility, kindness and sincerity of his hero’s thoughts, and at first Pierre is presented as a confused, passive, absolutely inactive young man. Pierre obviously does not fit into the false society of flatterers and careerists present in Scherer's salon. He behaves in a manner inappropriate for social events, and is even somewhat aggressive towards all other visitors. For this reason, Pierre’s appearance causes bewilderment among many, and his straightforward statements cause outright fear. In addition, Bezukhov is indifferent to money and luxury, he is selfless and, in spite of everything, acutely senses the line between innocent jokes and dangerous games that can cripple someone’s life.
The difference in the paths of moral search in the destinies of A. Bolkonsky, P. Bezukhov and N. Rostov

Answer from Yergey Smirnov[guru]
The similarities are definitely physiological, primary and secondary sexual characteristics, and the differences in characters...

Answer from Irishka[guru]
Duel and the woman Countess Sophie Rasberglein

Answer from REPORTER[guru]
Balkonsky is sitting on the balcony, but Bolkonsky is dead.

Answer from Alexandra Bodrova[guru]
They are looking for the meaning of life, for themselves, but are disappointed in what they find. Balkonsky in military service. Pierre regrets that he married Helene and that he became a Freemason.

In Russian literature, perhaps, there is no work that can be compared with the epic novel “War and Peace” in terms of the significance of the problems raised in it, in terms of the artistic expressiveness of the narrative, and in terms of educational impact. Hundreds of human images pass before us, the destinies of some come into contact with the destinies of others, but each of the heroes is an original, unique personality. Thus, throughout the entire novel, the life paths of Pierre Bezukhov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky intersect. The writer introduces us to them already on the first pages - in the salon of Anna Pavlovna Scherer. They are very different - the arrogant, ambitious prince and the gullible, weak-willed Pierre, but at the same time both are the embodiment of the author's ideal - a person striving to understand the meaning of life, to determine his place in this world, going through moral suffering on the path of spiritual improvement. The heroes have to go through a lot in order to ultimately find harmony in their souls. First of all, they try to get rid of false beliefs and unpleasant character traits. And only after overcoming their weaknesses, having experienced many disappointments caused by clashes with cruel reality, Prince Andrei and Pierre acquire what, in their opinion, is the immutable truth, not subject to falsehood.

Tolstoy shows the reader the same phenomena through the eyes of his very different heroes. Both of them have a feeling of admiration for Napoleon. For Pierre Bezukhov, brought up on the ideas of the French Enlightenment, Napoleon was a strong, invincible “heir” of the French Revolution, who brought the temptation of bourgeois freedom. Prince Andrei embodied in his thoughts about Bonaparte his own dreams of popular recognition, glory, and unlimited power. But both of them, faced with certain circumstances, debunked their idol. Bolkonsky realized the insignificance of both his own ambitious thoughts and the actions of the French emperor, seeing the boundless, majestic sky, which appeared to him as the highest revelation after being wounded at Austerlitz: “How quiet, calm and solemn... everything is empty, everything is deception, except this endless sky ", "...at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant person in comparison with what was now happening between his soul and this... sky...". Prince Andrei realized that glory should not be the main goal of human activity, that there are other, higher ideals. Pierre began to hate the French commander as a result of comprehending the suffering of the Russian people in the unjust war of aggression of 1812. Communication with ordinary people discovered new values for Bezukhov, a different meaning of life, consisting of kindness, compassion, and service to people: “... I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live... for others, only now do I understand the happiness of life.” Through the attitude of his favorite heroes to Napoleon, the writer expresses his own thoughts about this statesman, who for Tolstoy was the embodiment of “world evil.”

It is no coincidence that the writer also puts his heroes through the test of love for Natasha Rostova - a symbol of inner beauty, purity and spontaneity. According to Tolstoy, Natasha is life itself. And the evolution of the heroes would have been imperfect if they had not known love for this bright girl: where “she is... there is all the happiness, hope, light; the other half is everything where she is not there, there is all despondency and darkness...” Natasha helps the heroes discover new, unexplored depths of their souls, learn true love and forgiveness. Prince Andrei and Pierre Bezukhov are the personification of Tolstoy's ideal hero, and Natasha became the ideal, but not idealized heroine not only of the novel, but of an entire generation.

Andrei's attitude towards Pierre

Only with his friend Pierre is he simple, natural, filled with friendly sympathy and heartfelt affection. Only to Pierre can he admit with all frankness and seriousness: “This life that I lead here, this life is not for me.” He experiences an irresistible thirst for real life. His sharp, analytical mind is attracted to her; broad requests push him to great achievements. According to Andrey, the army and participation in military campaigns open up great opportunities for him. Although he could easily stay in St. Petersburg and serve as an aide-de-camp here, he goes to where military operations are taking place. The battles of 1805 were a way out of the deadlock for Bolkonsky.

Entertainment" for the secular youth of the capital

Family customs of the House of Romanov (retelling)

Paintings of Dividing the inheritance of Count Bezukhov

Count Bezukhov bequeathed everything to his illegitimate son Pierre, who was studying abroad. Three princesses tried to win the inheritance - the daughters of the count and Prince Vasily Kuragin. But through the efforts of Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, they still did not succeed. Anna Mikhailovna snatched the briefcase with the will from Prince Vasily, which was kept under the count's pillow

most accurately reveals the two-faced essence of Vasily Kuragin.
Since the count's death was inevitable, the relatives were primarily concerned about the will

Life and customs in the estate of the old Prince Balkonsky

Letters from Zhulia Karagina and Marie Balkonskaya

MARYA BOLKONSKAYA first learned about Anatoly Kuragin's upcoming matchmaking with her from Zhulya's letter to Maria

Andrey comes to Bald Mountains (why?)

So Prince Andrei comes to Bald Mountains, where he is destined to endure new shocks: the birth of a son, the torment and death of his wife. At the same time, it seemed to him that it was he who was to blame for what had happened, that something had been torn away in his soul. The change in his views that arose at Austerlitz was now combined with a mental crisis. Tolstoy's hero decides never to serve in the army again, and a little later decides to completely abandon public activities. He isolates himself from life, takes care of only his household and his son in Bogucharovo, convincing himself that this is all that is left for him. He now intends to live only for himself, “without disturbing anyone, to live until death.”

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Kutuzov's attitude to the army

Kutuzov appears in the novel already when the Russian army is retreating. Smolensk has been surrendered, scenes of devastation are visible everywhere. We see the commander-in-chief through the eyes of Russian soldiers, partisans, through the eyes of Andrei Bolkonsky and through the eyes of Tolstoy himself. For the soldiers, Kutuzov is a people's hero who came to stop the retreating army and lead it to victory. “They say it’s accessible to everyone, thank God. Otherwise, there’s trouble with the sausage makers... Now, perhaps, it will be possible to speak to the Russians too. Otherwise, God knows what they did. Everyone retreated, everyone retreated,” says Vaska Denisov, one of the partisans, about Kutuzov. The soldiers believed in Kutuzov and worshiped him. He does not part with his army for a minute. Before important battles, Kutuzov is among the troops, speaking to the soldiers in their language. Kutuzov's patriotism is the patriotism of a man who believes in the power of his homeland and the fighting spirit of a soldier. This is constantly felt by his fighters. But Kutuzov is not only the greatest commander and strategist of his time, he is, first of all, a man who deeply experiences the failures of the 1812 campaign. This is how he appears before us at the beginning of his activities as a commander. “What... what have they brought us to!” “Kutuzov suddenly said in an excited voice, clearly imagining the situation in which Russia was.” And Prince Andrei, who was next to Kutuzov when these words were spoken, sees tears in the old man’s eyes. “They will eat my horse meat!” - he threatens the French, and we understand that this is not said just for the sake of a nice word.
Just like the soldiers, Andrei Bolkonsky looks at Kutuzov. He is also connected with this man by the fact that he is his father’s friend. Kutuzov was well known to Andrey before. It was to Mikhail Illarionovich that his Father sent Prince Andrei to serve, in the hope that Kutuzov would be able to save his son. But, according to Tolstoy’s philosophy, neither Kutuzov nor anyone else is capable of changing what is destined for man from above.
Tolstoy himself looks at the commander from a completely different perspective. Kutuzov, according to his ideas, cannot influence either individual people or the course of history as a whole. At the same time, this man personifies the Good that came with the goal of defeating Evil. Evil is embodied in Napoleon, whom Tolstoy considered the “executioner of nations.” Napoleon's posturing, his narcissism and arrogance are evidence of false patriotism. It was Napoleon, according to Tolstoy, who was chosen by History for defeat. Kutuzov just does not prevent Napoleon from falling, because, as a person wise with life experience, who understands and recognizes the power of fate, he knows that Napoleon is doomed. Therefore, he waits for the moment until this person himself repents of his deeds and leaves? To this end, he leaves Moscow, thereby giving Napoleon the opportunity to calmly think everything over and realize the futility of further struggle.
For Kutuzov, Borodino is the battle where Good, on whose side the Russian troops are fighting, must win. Let's see how two great commanders acted in the Battle of Borodino. Napoleon is worried, if they expect victory, it is only due to personal, unfounded self-confidence. He hopes that the outcome will be decided by his actions as a strategist and commander. Kutuzov behaves completely differently. Outwardly completely calm, he does not issue any orders on the Borodino field. His participation boils down only to agreeing or disagreeing with the proposals of others. Kutuzov knows that this event will be decisive for both the Russians and the French. But if for the Russians this will be the beginning of a distant victory, then for the French it will be defeat.
The only time Kutuzov opposed himself to the will of everyone else was at the council in Fili, when he decided to leave Moscow and thereby won the war.
Thus. Tolstoy showed Kutuzov in all his greatness both as a commander and as a person. Kutuzov is not only an experienced commander, a patriot, an intelligent and sensitive person, he is a person capable of sensing and understanding the natural course of events. By combining worldly wisdom and acting according to the inevitable course of history, he won the war

Chernyshevsky pointed out that a feature of Tolstoy’s realism is his depiction of the internal psychological process of human life, the “dialectic of the soul” of a person. Tolstoy pays great attention to the inner life of his heroes. His heroes are trying to answer the eternal questions: “What is good and evil? Why do I live and who am I? What is the meaning of human life? You have to go through a great spiritual drama, try yourself in a variety of fields, make mistakes, fall and be reborn again, in order to ultimately come to the harmony of life. Tolstoy paints his heroes in a certain environment, in a certain era, showing how this environment, this environment influence people’s worldview.

We meet Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov in the Scherer salon and immediately notice the commonality that makes them similar and sets them apart from secular society. Both are nobles by birth. Their fathers know each other well, they once served together, perhaps this is where the origins of their friendship lie. But secular society treats them differently. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky is one of our own, an equal, if not in views, then in origin. And Bezukhov is greeted only by bowing his head, because he is illegitimate. Andrei lived most of the time on his father’s estate. His family is there. Pierre Bezukhov has just returned from Paris, where he was finishing his education. They also differ in appearance. Prince Andrei is a secular man. He is dressed in the latest fashion, he has excellent French pronunciation, a quiet, slow gait and universal boredom in his eyes. Pierre is fat, huge and clumsy; he looks very little like a society dandy. Andrey is older than Pierre, but they enjoy each other's company. Prince Andrei appears before us as a completely mature person, which cannot be said about Pierre Bezukhov. The formation of this hero occurs throughout the seven years of the novel’s life. When they meet, Prince Andrei tells Pierre about his dissatisfaction with the life he leads. “This life that I lead here, this life is not for me,” says Prince Andrei. Let's try to trace what Prince Andrei and Pierre Bezukhov were talking about after they left the salon. At first there seems to be a conversation about everyday problems, affairs, career and marriage of Pierre. But Tolstoy already reveals Andrei’s inner world here, saying that “Prince Andrei was apparently not interested in these abstract conversations about eternal peace.” This means he is interested in something else. What? The conversation turns to war, and Prince Andrei expresses his views. Andrei craves fame, believes in Napoleon and wants to imitate him. Pierre at this time also admires Napoleon, mistakenly seeing him as the leader of revolutionary France.

After the meeting at Scherer, Andrei and Pierre's paths diverge for a short time. Prince Andrey enters service at the headquarters of the commander-in-chief.

He dreams of accomplishing a feat in order to be noticed. At the Battle of Austerlitz, leading soldiers into battle, he was noticed, even by the same Napoleon, whom he had previously admired so much. But now this is no longer the main thing for Andrey. Wounded, he sees the blue high sky and begins to understand that happiness lies in himself. He thinks about his relatives who are left at home. Disillusioned with his military career, having never found the meaning of life in the war, Bolkonsky returns home.

What is Pierre doing at this time? His life is spent in fun and revelry in the company of Kuragin. The old Count Bezukhov, Pierre's father, dies and makes his illegitimate son his only heir. Pierre receives wealth and title. He is noticed in the world, now he is a welcome guest in all salons and houses. He marries the most beautiful woman - Helen Kuragina, who, for all her beauty, turns out to be a stupid and empty person. Now Pierre begins to think about the meaning of life, to look for answers to eternal questions. He carries out a number of reforms to make life easier for his serfs, but remains misunderstood by the peasants, many of them simply consider him a fool. In order to understand the people and be understood by them, Pierre will still need to live among these people, go through all the horror of the war with them.

Prince Andrei, returning from the war, receives another blow - his wife dies, leaving him with a small son. Shocked by this tragedy, Andrei buries himself alive in the village. He is now trying, like Pierre, to improve the lives of the peasants. Pierre arrives in Bogucharovo and finds Andrei completely depressed. Another important conversation takes place between them. Andrei saw Austerlitz, saw the senselessness and cruelty of the murder. He is devastated, all his dreams and hopes have been crushed. Pierre, on the contrary, is elated: he is interested in Freemasonry and believes that he has learned the truth. Pierre at first does not understand the reason for Andrey's misfortune. We are talking about murder, is it possible to kill at all? After the war, Prince Andrei believes that there are people who can be killed, since they kill themselves. Pierre is frightened by these words and advises living according to God's commandments: act towards others as you want people to treat you. Andrey believes that in life we must strive for happiness, and happiness is the absence of remorse and illness. To distract his friend, Pierre tells him about Freemasonry. Prince Andrei listens attentively to Pierre's words, but sees beyond Masonic philosophy. Pierre's words open a new path for him. Andrei looks up, sees the same high and eternal sky as the one he looked into at Austerlitz, and that’s where revelation descends on him. For the second time in my life. It seems that he is re-learning the secrets of the universe. “The meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei the era that began in appearance, and the same, but in the inner world, his new life.”

In Otradnoye, Andrei meets Natasha, whose whole appearance fascinates him. She has so much energy and joy of life that he involuntarily wants to experience something similar himself. Now Prince Andrei believes that life at 31 does not end, but only begins. Bolkonsky leaves for St. Petersburg. There he meets new people and participates in the work of government commissions. Prince Andrei strives to benefit the fatherland, but all his work turns out to be idle. Andrei returns to Natasha, but she is carried away by Anatoly Kuragin and allows herself to be persuaded to run away from home. Proud Prince Andrei cannot forgive her for this act. When French troops invade Russia, he goes off to war again.

Pierre also goes to war. Having sold his estate, he used the money to form a regiment. He also had to go through the war, like Andrei. Pierre lives among the soldiers, sleeps side by side with them, and, like them, goes hungry. There he meets Platon Karataev, who becomes a real teacher for him. Pierre endured a lot and understood a lot. Was he destined to see Prince Andrey again? but this meeting was the last. The conversation between them was about the war. Both understood that the battle awaiting the Russian troops was a decisive one, in which they must win at any cost. Pierre looks with fear at Prince Andrei, who is unlike himself, angry, and every now and then breaks into a cry, who offers not to take prisoners. But in Borodino, it is Prince Andrey who does not fire a single shot, and Pierre helps the soldiers at Raevsky’s battery. Seriously wounded, Prince Andrei hopes to find peace of mind through understanding his inner world. And again Natasha helps him with this. She is no longer the same, but different, but now she is infinitely dear to him. Prince Andrei dies, but before his death he finds that highest truth that he had been looking for all his life. His successor, both in the physical and spiritual sense, will be his son Nikolenka.

Pierre still had to experience earthly happiness. After Helen died, he happily married Natasha. Using the example of their marriage, Tolstoy showed a model of a family that one should strive for.

Throughout the entire time allotted to them in the novel, the characters are looking for answers to important life questions, trying to understand the meaning of human existence on earth. Bolkonsky believes that you need to live for yourself. Happiness for Pierre lies in being useful to others. Pierre considers it unfair that there is evil for another person. Each hero found his own happiness and his own understanding of life.

I would like to end with the words of Tolstoy: “A living person is one who goes forward to where it is illuminated... in front of him by a moving lantern, and who never reaches the illuminated place, but the illuminated place goes ahead of him. And that's life. And there is no other.” A person must constantly look for himself, his place in life. And while he is looking for it, he will live.

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GBOU NPO "Vocational School" No. 62

Volgograd region

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on the topic of: Comparison of images of AndreyBolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhovfrom the novelLev NikolaevichTolstoy"War and Peace"

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Demenko Irina

Teacher: Lola Azizovna

Bolkonsky Bezukhov Roman Tolstoy

Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky, being completely different characters from the novel “War and Peace,” are Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s favorite heroes. The difference between the characters is visible from their very first appearance on the pages of the novel in Anna Scherer’s salon. Andrei Bolkonsky, having already had quite a wealth of life experience at that time, shows with all his appearance how tired he was of all these social gatherings. Andrey even somehow reminds the reader of Eugene Onegin. Pierre Bezukhov appears to us as a man who reveres the people who gathered in Madame Scherer's salon. The heroes have different views, characters, and behavior patterns. But, despite many differences, the heroes of the work also have a lot in common. Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov are smart people who received an excellent education. They are close to each other in spirit, since both are independent in their judgments and thoughts. Thus, Bolkonsky and Bezukhov fully confirm the ancient axiom: “Opposites complement each other.”

No wonder Andrey and Pierre They are very frank in their conversations, and on some topics they can only talk with each other, because they find each other understanding even with completely different worldviews. Andrei Bolkonsky is a more reasonable person, he is much more rational than Pierre. Reason prevails over Andrey’s feelings, while Pierre Bezukhov is more spontaneous, prone to acute feelings and experiences. Pierre loves entertainment, leads a wild lifestyle and has an easy-going mental attitude to many things. He marries the secular beauty Helen Kuragina, but soon breaks up with her, saying about his wife: “Where you are, there is debauchery and evil.” His youth is full of mistakes and disappointments. As a result, Pierre, like Andrei Bolkonsky, begins to hate secular society, which is permeated through and through with lies. Both heroes are men of action. Both Andrei and Pierre are constantly in search of the meaning of life and their place in this world. Many things happen differently in the lives of the main characters, but some moments are very similar. Andrey is looking for glory in the war, Pierre is having fun in the company of Kuragin. But both are unhappy in their family life. Both have beautiful outwardly wives, but their chosen ones do not satisfy the heroes with their inner world. When Andrei Bolkonsky reconsiders his views on life, having become disillusioned with the war, he returns home, but another shock awaits him - Andrei’s wife dies and the hero of the novel faces depression and disappointment in life. Big changes are taking place in the life of Pierre Bezukhov - he receives a large inheritance and becomes a welcome guest in all houses without exception, even in those where Pierre was previously treated with disdain. But, quickly becoming disillusioned, like Andrei Bolkonsky in his time, with social life, Pierre Bezukhov finds his application in Freemasonry. During this period of his life, Pierre Bezukhov seems to have found the meaning of life.

He's trying to make life easier serfs and help other people: “When I live, at least try to live for others, I begin to understand the happiness of life.” But Freemasonry disappointed Pierre, as many members of this society betrayed common interests and directed their efforts to gain their own glory and personal gain. The War of 1812, and especially captivity and the meeting with Platon Karataev, changed Bezukhov’s life, showing him the true meaning of life, and helped the hero reassess his values. Such Pierre Bezukhov helps Andrei Bolkonsky, reviving Andrei to life together with Natasha Rostova. Andrei takes an active part in public life, working on the Speransky commission, but this type of activity does not bring him satisfaction. Just like Pierre Bezukhov’s participation in the Freemason movement. Andrei is revived again by his love for Natasha Rostova, but a happy life with his beloved did not work out, and Andrei Bolkonsky again goes to war, where he comes to understand that the meaning of life is to help other people, that it is necessary to benefit others. Andrei Bolkonsky dies without being able to bring his idea to life. Understanding the need to love the people around you and appreciate life comes to Pierre Bezukhov. Andrei and Pierre are united by a principle that Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy himself outlined during his youth: “To live honestly, you have to struggle, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and give up again, and start again, and give up again, and always struggle and lose. And calmness is spiritual vulgarity.”

Each writer has his own view of his time and the choice of heroes. This is determined by the personality of the author, his worldview, his understanding of the purpose of man on earth. Therefore, there are books over which time has no power. There are heroes who will always be interesting, whose thoughts and actions will excite more than one generation of descendants.

This is what the heroes of L.N.’s novel are like for me. Tolstoy "War and Peace". What attracts me to the characters of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov? Why do they seem so alive and close after almost two centuries? Why is Natasha Rostova perceived not as some distant countess, from a completely different life, from a different upbringing, but as my peer? Why is it that every time I return to a novel, I discover something new for myself in it? This is probably why for me they are truly alive, not static, because they live not only for today, they strive not only for privileges, awards, material wealth, but also do not “sleep” in soul, reflect on their lives, intensely search for the meaning of life. The great and unique L. Tolstoy, who throughout his life never ceased to seek the good and learn, analyze himself, his era and human life in general, teaches us, readers, to observe life and analyze our actions. Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov immediately attract attention and stand out for their sincerity, highest decency and intelligence. Despite the fact that they are so different - the stern, arrogant Prince Andrei, who respects himself very much and therefore leaves people, and the awkward, initially naive Pierre, who is never taken seriously by the world - they are true friends. They can talk about lofty matters, confide in each other the secrets of the soul, protect and support in difficult times.

It would seem that each of them has their own path, their own victories and defeats, but how many times their destinies intertwined, how many similarities exist in their different life ambitions, how many similarities exist in their feelings! A talented officer, Prince Andrei goes to war to find a use for his strength and intelligence, to find “his Toulon,” and to become famous. He made it a rule not to interfere in other people’s affairs, not to pay attention to vanity and disputes, “not to give up.” But in the headquarters corridor, the prince will cut off the presumptuous adjutant, who dared to speak insultingly about the defeated ally: “We are either officers who serve our tsar and fatherland and rejoice at the common success and are sad about the common failure, or we are lackeys who do not care about the master’s business!”

Having given the order to evacuate, Prince Andrei cannot abandon Captain Tushin’s battery and remains to help them, without hiding from the dust and gunpowder smoke with his adjutant position. And during the discussion at the headquarters of the Battle of Shengraben, he will speak out in defense of Tushin.

Maybe it was precisely this meeting and participation in hostilities (under enemy bullets) side by side with ordinary soldiers and junior officers that helped to fulfill his father’s order so that “there would be no shame”, and to raise the banner, turning back the retreating, not only because his “finest hour” has come, but because he, like Kutuzov, feels pain for the retreat of the army. Maybe that’s why Andrei Bolkonsky deliberately did not notice the offensive words about Nikolai Rostov’s staff officers and authoritatively, with dignity, suggested that he calm down, because another duel would now take place - with a common enemy, where they should not feel like rivals. Likewise, Pierre, striving for self-improvement, trying to do so much for his peasants, must come to understand the difference between good deeds for one’s own sake and dissolution in the common affairs and aspirations of many people. That's why he comes to the Masons, hoping that this is a real center of good. What's wrong? What well? What should you love, what should you hate? Why live and what is “I”? What is life and what is death? What force controls everything? Of course, a person who poses these questions to himself is worthy of respect, even if his searches first lead to denial, to rejection...

Prince Andrei also experiences a spiritual crisis after revaluing his idol, Napoleon, and after the death of his wife. Changes on the estate (at the beginning of the 19th century he transferred his serfs to free cultivators), raising an infant son, reading books and periodicals could fill the life of an ordinary, dozens of people to the brim. Bolkonsky, however, is pressed by a ceiling of limitations - he needs the space of a high blue sky. Like a spark, Pierre’s words will flare up in a conversation on the ferry: “You have to live, you have to love, you have to believe,” and will ignite a new interest in life! Now he knows the criterion for the usefulness of this work and, having applied the project, highly appreciated by the Speransky committee, to specific people, “remembering the peasants, Dron - the headman, and, having attached to them the rights of individuals, which he distributed in paragraphs, it became strange to him how he could take so long to engage in such futile labor.” The hope for personal happiness lifts Prince Andrey as if on wings and proves that “life is not over at thirty-one.” How will his credo, his yesterday’s Napoleonic “I am above everyone”, “my thoughts and efforts as a gift for everyone” change to something else: “Everyone must know me, so that my life does not go on for me alone, so that they do not live like this.” , like this girl, regardless of my life, so that it is reflected on everyone and so that they all live with me!” This “everything is through me,” this path from the arrogantly egoistic to the egoistic will give Bolkonsky a different perception of the world, teach him to see and understand the feelings of other people: dreamy Natasha on a moonlit night, her bright personality, which he so lacked, and girls with green plums who needed to pass by him, and Timokhin, and all the officers and soldiers of their regiment unnoticed. Maybe that’s why he will not lose interest in life, plunging into the personal grief of breaking up with his beloved, when he is faced with the general grief of his Motherland, with an enemy invasion.

So Pierre, who was deceived by everyone - from estate managers to his own wife - needed to feel a threat not only to his own self, but at least to a loved one, so that he would find in himself strength, firmness, real tact, and, finally, the ability to manage the situation, as in the case of Anatoly Kuragin, so that he does not disgrace Natasha’s reputation and does not meet with Prince Andrei, and does not become a threat to his friend’s life.

When the enemy attacks the Motherland, Pierre, a civilian to the core, acts as a true patriot. He not only equips an entire regiment at his own expense - he himself wants to stay in Moscow to kill Napoleon. It is symbolic that, looking for the answer to the question in the Apocalypse: who will defeat Bonaparte, Pierre finds the answer - “Russian Bezukhov,” emphasizing not only his name and title, but precisely his belonging to the nation, that is, feeling himself to be part of the country. On the Borodino field, on the battery, Pierre, with his desire to help bring shells, is somewhat reminiscent of Prince Andrey near Shengraben.

Andrei Bolkonsky also feels like a part of his people. In a conversation with a new person, he amazes with his frankness, simplicity of words, and closeness to ordinary soldiers. Prince Andrei refuses Kutuzov's offer to serve as his adjutant, wanting to remain in the regiment. He will learn to fight on the front line, to appreciate the warm attitude of the soldiers towards him, their affectionate “our prince”. Having once attached great importance to military strategy and calculation, Andrei Bolkonsky indignantly discards this before the Battle of Borodino: Napoleonic comparison of regiments with chess pieces and the words of staff officers about “war in space.” According to Prince Andrei, only one feeling, which “is in me, in him, in every soldier,” can protect the small homeland (your house, estate, city) and the great Fatherland. This is a feeling of love for the Motherland and a feeling of unity with the fate of the people.

Bolkonsky stands under bullets, considering it “his duty to arouse the courage of the soldiers.” He will forgive Anatoly Kuragin a personal insult when he meets him wounded in a hospital ward on the front line. And love for Natasha, aggravated by common grief and common losses, flares up in Prince Andrei with renewed vigor. Pierre Bezukhov had to undergo a great purification through physical and moral suffering in captivity in order to meet Platon Karataev, immerse himself in the life of the common people and understand that “all his life he looked somewhere over the heads of those around him, but he had to not strain his eyes, but just look in front of you.” With new eyes he will see the real path to the goal, the sphere of application of his own strength. It is painful for him, like many heroes of the Patriotic War, to look at the unrest in the Fatherland: “Theft is in the courts, the army is one stick: shagistika, settlements - they torture the people, they stifle education. What’s young, honestly, is ruined!” Now Pierre becomes close to everything that happens in his country, and he stands up for the defense of this “young and honest”, bowing before the glorious past, fights for the purity of the present and future.

Bezukhov is one of the organizers and leaders of the Decembrist circle. He deliberately chooses a dangerous and turbulent path. It is symbolic that, in Nikolenka Bolkonsky’s view, both the teenager himself and Prince Andrei are going “to glory” next to him, through the swords of the reactionaries.

I think if Pierre had remained alive, he would not have hesitated to take part in the performance on Senate Square. This would be the logical result of ideological quests, spiritual self-improvement and the growth of one’s own “I” into a common “we”. At a new stage of development, as L.N. shows. Tolstoy, their sequel, Nikolenka, takes the same path. And his cherished words sound so close and understandable to each of us: “I only ask God for one thing, that what happened to Plutarch’s people happen to me, and I will do the same. I'll do better. Everyone will know, everyone will love me, everyone will admire me.” The meaning of the spiritual quest of a real person cannot have an end.

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Common and distinctive features in the characters of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov (L. N. Tolstoy. “War and Peace”). Comparison of the images of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov from Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” Andrei’s attitude towards Pierre

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