Focusing on the lives of five aristocratic families, ‘War & Peace’ tells the story of three young people whose lives are swept along by events and changed forever: the misfit Pierre, philosophical Andrei and romantic, impulsive Natasha.
Their stories play out alongside a great cast of characters, from the aristocrat to the peasant, as the great historical events of the period unfold, culminating in Napoleon’s fateful invasion of Russia.
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer best known for his long novels War & Peace and Anna Karenina, and is often acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest novelists. He was born in Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow, into a well-known noble family, and died in 1910 at the age of 82.