In a novel by this author, Prince Alexei is captured in Moravia and meets the opposing general, whom he idolizes until seeing him in person.
A novel by this author compares the results of a battle to "a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history." Isaiah Berlin's essay The Hedgehog and the Fox focuses on a novel by this author in which a young man learns wisdom from a kind peasant named Platon Karataev. In a novel by this author, Prince Alexei is captured in Moravia and meets the opposing general, whom he idolizes until seeing him in person. This author wrote a novel in which Pierre Bezukhov becomes obsessed with assassinating an opposing leader after the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this author who depicted Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia in his epic novel War and Peace.
A novel by this author compares the results of a battle to "a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.
Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy]