After his father's sixth stroke, Catherine fails to destroy a letter authorizing the legitimacy of this bastard.
One person this character meets "would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right" in a display of the "profound wisdom" of Russian proverbs. After his father's sixth stroke, Catherine fails to destroy a letter authorizing the legitimacy of this bastard. This character joins the (*) Freemasons after meeting a stranger who wears a ring with death's head at Torzhok station. He meets the peasant Platon Karataev; earlier, he wounds his former friend Dolokhov in a duel for the honor of his wife Princess Helene Kuragin. This man has delusions of killing Napoleon, but ends the novel he appears in married to Natasha Rostova. For 10 points, name this foil to Andrei Bolkonsky, a major character from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
One person this character meets "would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right" in a display of the "profound wisdom" of Russian proverbs.
Pierre Bezukhov or Pierre Bezuhov [accept either underlined answer; accept Count Pyotr Krillovich Bezukhov]