The aforementioned friend of Platon Karataev goes on to marry Helene Kuragina and develops a strange desire to kill Napoleon.
While imprisoned, one character in this work develops a friendship with the peasant Platon Karataev, and another character's gambling debts nearly force him to sell his estate Otradnoe. Another character's father forbids her to marry Andrew Bolkonski, who then dies in battle. The aforementioned friend of Platon Karataev goes on to marry Helene Kuragina and develops a strange desire to kill Napoleon. Featuring characters such as Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezhukov, for 10 points, name this novel about Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, a work of Leo Tolstoy famous for being really long.
While imprisoned, one character in this work develops a friendship with the peasant Platon Karataev, and another character's gambling debts nearly force him to sell his estate Otradnoe.
{War} and {Peace}