The theme of the family in the novel by L. N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"

In the novel “War and Peace”, L. N. Tolstoy singled out and considered “folk thought” to be more significant. It is most clearly expressed in those parts of the work that tell about the war. In the image of the “world”, however, the “family thought” predominates, which also plays a very important role in the novel. important role, because the family is conceived by the author as the basis of the foundations. The novel is built as a story of families. Family members inherit the traits of the breed. The family, according to Tolstoy, should be strengthened, because through the family a person joins the people.

Three families stand at the center of the novel: the Rostovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Kuragins. Many of the events described in the novel are shown by Tolstoy through the history of these families.

The patriarchal Rostov family arouses special sympathy for the author. For the first time we meet with its members at the name day of Countess Rostova. The first thing that is felt here is the atmosphere of love and kindness. "Love air" reigns in this family.

The elder Rostovs are simple and kind people. They are glad to everyone who enters their house, and do not judge a person by the amount of money. Their daughter Natasha conquers with her sincerity, and younger son Petya is a kind and childishly naive boy. Here parents understand their children, and children sincerely love their parents. Together they experience troubles and joys. Getting acquainted with them, the reader understands that this is where real happiness lies. Therefore, Sonya feels good in the Rostovs' house. Although she is not their own daughter, they love her like their children.

Even courtyard people: Tikhon, Praskovya Savishna - are full members of this family. They love and respect their masters, live with their problems and worries.

Only Vera - the eldest daughter of the Rostovs - does not fit into big picture. He is a cold and selfish person. “The countess has done something,” says Father Rostov, speaking of Vera. Apparently, for education eldest daughter the influence of Princess Drubetskaya, who used to be best friend Countess Rostova. And, indeed, Vera is much more like the son of Countess Boris Drubetskoy than, for example, her sister Natasha.

Tolstoy shows this family not only in joy, but also in grief. They remain in Moscow until the last minute, although Napoleon is advancing on the city. When they finally decide to leave, they face the question of what to do - leave things, despite the value of many of them, and give carts to the wounded or leave without thinking about other people. Natasha solves the problem. She says, or rather, screams with a distorted face, that it is a shame to leave the wounded to the enemy. None even the most valuable thing can't equal a person's life. Rostovs leave without things, And we understand that such a decision is natural for this family. They just couldn't have done otherwise.

Another appears in the novel, the Bolkonsky family. Tolstoy shows three generations of the Bolkonskys: the old Prince Nikolai Andreevich, his children - Prince Anrey and Princess Marya - and grandson Nikolenka. In the Bolkonsky family, from generation to generation they brought up such qualities as a sense of duty, patriotism, and nobility.

If the basis of the Rostov family is a feeling, then the defining line of the Bolkonskys is the mind. The old prince Bolkonsky is firmly convinced that there are "only two virtues in the world - activity and intelligence." He is a man who always follows his convictions. He works himself (sometimes he writes the military regulations, then he studies with his daughter exact sciences) and requires children not to be lazy either. In the character of Prince Anrey, many features of his father's nature are preserved. He is also trying to find his way in life, to be useful to his country. It is the desire to work that leads him to work in the Speransky commission. Young Bolkonsky is a patriot, like his father. The old prince, having learned that Napoleon is going to Moscow, forgets his previous grievances and actively participates in the militia. Andrei, having lost faith in his "Toulon" under the sky of Austerlitz, promises himself not to take any more part in military campaigns. But during the war of 1812, he defends his homeland and dies for it.

If in the Rostov family the relationship between children and parents is friendly and trusting, then with the Bolognas, at first glance, the situation is different. The old prince also sincerely loves Andrei and Marya. He worries about them. He notices, for example, that Andrei does not love his wife Liza. Having told his son about this, although he sympathizes with him, he immediately reminds him of his duty to his wife and family. The very type of relationship with the Bolkonskys is different than that of the Rostovs. The prince hides his feelings for the children. So, for example, with Marya he is always strict and sometimes speaks rudely to her. He reproaches his daughter for her inability to decide math problems, sharply and directly tells her that she is ugly. Princess Mary suffered from such an attitude on the part of her father, because he diligently hid his love in her in the depths of his soul. Just before death old prince understands how dear his daughter is to him. In the last minutes of his life, he felt an inner kinship with her.

Marya - special person in the Bolkonsky family. Despite a harsh upbringing, she did not harden. She loves her father, brother and nephew immensely. Moreover, she is ready to sacrifice herself for them, to give everything she has.

The third generation of the Bolkonskys is the son of Prince Andrei Nikolenka. In the epilogue of the novel, we see him as a child. But the author shows that he listens attentively to adults, some kind of work of the mind is going on in him. And, therefore, in this generation the precepts of the Bolkonskys about the active mind will not be forgotten.

A completely different type of family is the Kuragin family. They bring only trouble to Bolkonsky and Rostov. The head of the family - Prince Vasily - is a false and deceitful person. He lives in an atmosphere of intrigue and gossip. One of the main features of his character is greed. He also marries his daughter Helen to Pierre Bezukhov, because he is rich. The most important thing for Prince Kuragin in life is money. For their sake, he is ready to go to the crime.

The children of Prince Vasily are no better than their father. Pierre rightly remarks that they have such a "vile breed." Helen, unlike Princess Mary, is beautiful. But her beauty is outward brilliance. In Helen there is no spontaneity and openness of Natasha.

Helen is empty, selfish and deceitful in her soul. Marrying her nearly ruins Pierre's life. Pierre Bezukhov was convinced from his own experience that external beauty is not always the key to internal beauty and family happiness. A bitter feeling of disappointment, gloomy despondency, contempt for his wife, for life, for himself seized him some time after the wedding, when Helen's "mysteriousness" turned into spiritual emptiness, stupidity and depravity. Without thinking about anything, Helen arranges an affair between Anatole and Natasha Rostova. Anatole Kuragin - Helen's brother - causes a gap between Natasha and Andrei Bolkonsky. He, like his sister, is used to indulging his whims in everything, and therefore the fate of the girl he was going to take away from home does not bother him.

The Kuragin family is opposed to the Rostov and Bolkonsky families. On the pages of the novel, we see its degradation and destruction. As for the Bolkonskys and Rostovs, Tolstoy rewards them with family happiness. They experienced many troubles and difficulties, but managed to keep the best that was in them - honesty, sincerity, kindness. At the end we see happy family Natasha and Pierre, built by love and respect for each other. Natasha internally merged with Pierre, did not leave in her duo "not a single corner not open for him."

Moreover, Tolstoy combines the Rostovs and Bolognas into one family. The family of Nikolai Rostov and Princess Marya combines best features these families. Nikolai Rostov loves his wife and admires her soulfulness, before him, almost inaccessible to him, sublime and moral world in which his wife lived. And Marya sincerely loves her husband, who "will never understand everything that she understands," and this makes her love him even more.

The fate of Nikolai Rostov and Princess Marya was not easy. Quiet, meek, ugly in appearance, but beautiful in soul, the princess during the life of her father did not hope to get married and have children. The only one who wooed her, and even then for the sake of a dowry, Anatole Kuragin, of course, could not understand her high spirituality, moral beauty.

A chance meeting with Rostov, his Noble act awakened in Marya an unfamiliar, exciting feeling. Her soul guessed in him "a noble, firm, selfless soul." Each meeting more and more revealed each other to them, connected them. The awkward, shy princess was transformed, becoming graceful and almost beautiful. Nikolai admired the beautiful soul that opened up to him and felt that Marya was higher than himself and Sonechka, whom he seemed to love before, but which remained “an empty flower”. Her soul did not live, did not make mistakes and did not suffer, and, according to Tolstoy, did not "deserve" family happiness.

These new happy families did not arise by chance. They are the result of the unity of the entire Russian people, which took place during Patriotic War 1812. The year 1812 changed a lot in Russia, in particular, removed some class prejudices and gave new level human relations.

Tolstoy has favorite heroes and favorite families, where, perhaps, serene calm does not always reign, but where people live in "peace", that is, together, together, supporting each other. Only those who are high spiritually have, according to the writer, the right to real family happiness.

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Essay on "War and Peace"

1) Families in the epic novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace".

2) Main body:

A) Traditions of the Rostov family;
b) Education in the Bolkonsky family;
c) Features of the life of the Kuragins.

3) Conclusion.

4) Literature.

Introduction

Families in the novel - the epic L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace".
The family for Tolstoy is the soil for the formation human soul, and at the same time in the novel "War and Peace" the introduction family theme is one way to organize text. The atmosphere of the house, the family nest determines the views and even the fate of the heroes. It is the family, upbringing, traditions and native people that gives the beginning of life and the warehouse of character to any person. Therefore, from all the main images of the novel, L. N. Tolstoy singles out several families, on the example of which the author’s attitude to the ideal is clearly expressed. hearth, are the Bolkonskys, Rostovs and Kuragins. At the same time, the Bolkonskys and Rostovs are not just families, they are a whole way of life based on Russian traditions.
The foundations of the family according to Tolstoy are built on love, work, beauty. When they collapse, the family becomes unhappy, breaks up. And yet, the main thing that Lev Nikolayevich wanted to say about the inner life of the family is connected with the warmth, comfort, poetry of a real home, where everyone is dear to you, and you are dear to everyone, where they are waiting for you. The closer people are to natural life, the stronger the intra-family ties, the more happiness and joy in the life of each family member. This point of view is shown by Tolstoy on the pages of his novel.
For L.N. Tolstov big role play these families in this novel. He showed the reader how different noble families can be, how different their way of life, traditions and upbringing are. The family gives rise to everyone, laying down different knowledge, skills and views on everything around. It was the parents in each family who brought up the children, and the children adopted a lot from them. For example, the noble and kind Natasha, who resembles her father in this, the cheeky and cunning Helen, who also resembles her father Vasily Kuragin, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who adopted a strict and aloof character from his father. This is all Leo Tolstoy showed in his novel War and Peace.
All three families are very different, ranging from upbringing to habits and lifestyle. The kindness and carelessness of the Rostov family, the direct, proud Bolkonskys, and the “mean” breed of Kuragins, who can hardly be called a family, are completely different from these two families - all this can be seen on the pages of War and Peace. This will be described in more detail below.

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She acts as an adviser, not a mentor. The reader learns that in their family they did not boast of the count's family, they understood the needs common man, did not keep him in a black body. Indicative in this sense is the scene when the hunter on the hunt scolded Count Ilya Andreevich for missing the wolf. The master was not offended, did not punish his serf, finding his ardor natural at the moment of excitement. Conclusion: Rostov - patriarchal family. L. N. Tolstoy shows a peculiar kind of a noble family, approving their traditions, upbringing and internal way of life. The writer shows the reader how kind, generous and friendly rich people can be. Through this family, the reader can see that it is possible to enjoy life and joke around no matter what, and that all people are equal no matter what. social status. The Rostovs are a landlord family, but they are very affectionate and friendly with all their peasants. The writer conveyed to the reader the character of kind and very good people represented by this family. Education in the Bolkonsky family. L.N. Tolstoy in his novel "War and Peace" presents the reader with very different noble families, one of which is the Bolkonskys. The author shows an example of strict upbringing and modesty in this family. The head of the family is Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky, who has a daughter and son, Princess Marya and Prince Andrei. Their mother died early. The main education was in the hands of the father. Nikolai Andreevich has always been an ideal for his children, and they grew up in an environment completely different from that of the Rostovs - no jokes, no laughter, no fun. The father talked with them as with adults, did not dove and did not cherish. For the first time we see the Bolkonsky family in in full force at the end of the first part of the first volume, when everyone in the Bald Mountains, in the main estate of the Bolkonskys, is waiting for the arrival of Prince Andrei and his wife. From that moment on, almost everything becomes clear about this family, about all its members. Everyone in the Bolkonsky family is something special in their own way. Prince Nikolai is a strict father, Princess Marya is a submissive daughter, Liza is a fearful daughter-in-law, and Prince Andrei is an independent son. Being brought up in the same family by Nikolai Bolkonsky, brother and sister are completely different people. Princess Marya Bolkonskaya is a vulnerable, obedient, submissive girl, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky is a strong-willed, courageous and determined person. Princess Mary adopted more masculine character traits, because Nikolai Andreevich brought up on a par with his son. Marya Nikolaevna is not like other secular women. It contains real human values ​​that do not depend on time, environment and fashion. Princess Mary did not appear at the balls and in the drawing room of A.P. Scherer, because her father considered all this stupidity, a useless waste of time. Instead of balls and celebrations, Princess Mary was engaged in mathematical sciences with her father: “... so that you look like our stupid ladies, I don’t want ...” She is not beautiful, but not bad either. She has one and only friend - Julie, and that only by correspondence. Princess Mary, as it were, lives in her own little world, lonely and hardly understood by anyone. She lives only as a father and brother, brings up the son of Prince Andrei Nikolushka, she has no personal life. And only after the death of her father, she begins to live her own life. At the end of the novel, fate brings her to Nikolai Rostov and Princess Marya inhales a new and fresh sip life and joy. It's not just that the author shows difficult life girls, after which she receives a well-deserved happiness. Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is the son of the old prince, very similar to him in character. The same set of qualities of a military man: firmness, courage, determination; the same coldness and aloofness in his actions and thoughts. He is smart, brave, deeply decent, impeccably honest and proud. His pride is due not only to education, social origin, but is also his hallmark. Because of these traits of his, the wife of Prince Andrei, the little princess Lisa, suffers. But although he does not love her and treats her with some kind of indifference, he does not leave her. Another trait that Andrei Nikolaevich inherited from his father is isolation, closeness from people, fenced off from what is happening in the outside world. He has a best friend, Pierre, with whom he sometimes shares his thoughts, but this does not always happen. And in the Battle of Borodino, Prince Andrei behaves very coldly with his friend. Andrei Nikolaevich is laconic with his father, however, as with other people of his circle, but he respects his father and listens to him. It would seem that Natasha is the angel who will save Prince Andrei, bestowing love, but even here Prince Andrei does not add up. Andrei Bolkonsky does not tell anyone about his past or future at all, he lives in the present. lives inner life. In many ways, this is all thanks to the father and his upbringing. Let us turn to the image of Prince Nikolai Andreevich. He was a military man, which is why his upbringing is based on submission, strictness, accuracy and rigidity. He does not travel anywhere and lives in the Bald Mountains, because his estate was for him real empire, and he was the emperor: “With the people around him, from his daughter to servants, the prince was harsh and invariably demanding, and therefore, without being cruel, he aroused fear and respect in himself, which the most Cruel person". But, despite such an attitude of the prince towards the others, there was such a person, the architect Mikhail Ivanovich, who always dined with him, and whom the prince respected, despite his simple origin. Nikolai Andreevich always kept everyone and everything strict, but most of all his daughter Marya, and she was submissive and honored and obeyed him to the end. Her father taught Mary literacy and mathematics, but this was not typical for girls of that time. The old prince is constantly engaged in physical and mental labor: “He himself was constantly busy writing his memoirs, then calculations from higher mathematics, then turning snuff boxes on a machine tool, then working in the garden and observing buildings that did not stop .... ”Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky is a very persistent and patriotic person. Even when the French were advancing, he did not rush to run, but was ready to stand for his homeland, for his estate, and was already ready for this until death broke him “He ordered to gather militiamen from the villages, arm them ...”; "... and announced to his family that he was staying in the Bald Mountains." It cannot be said that Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky is a very cold and cruel person, because at the end, before his death, he cries and asks to forgive his daughter for everything bad: “Thank you ... daughter, my friend ... for everything, for everything ... sorry ... thanks ... I'm sorry...thank you!..- And tears flowed from his eyes. The elder Bolkonsky is not a tyrant, he is simply demanding not only of himself, but also of everyone around him. Although Nikolai Andreevich is very strict, this is not only a bad, but also a good side of him. He gave his children a peculiar upbringing, raising a smart and obedient daughter and a strong-willed son who achieves everything. The father taught his children to cope with difficulties and overcome everything. Conclusion: The Bolkonsky family is different from the Rostov family. Reason reigns here, not emotion. The Bolkonskys do not openly show their feelings, but they are congenial people. They are true patriots, love for the Motherland and own life are very important to them. LN Tolstoy treats this family with sympathy. The reader sees three generations of the family: Prince Nikolai Andreevich, his children Andrei and Marya, grandson Nikolinka. Best spiritual qualities and character traits are passed down in this family from generation to generation. The old prince is a man of honor and duty. In children he raised high quality good man. Prince Andrei and Princess Mary should not be offended by their father, but should only say “Thank you” for such an upbringing. The Bolkonsky family is the most entertaining in the novel, because it is always interesting to read about people who are so different, but, nevertheless, living in the same family. Features of the life of the Kuragins. The Kuragins are a peculiar and unlike family. Members of this family are distinguished by their cunning and arrogance. This noble family which seeks its own benefit in everything and everyone. The Kuragin family in the novel appears as the embodiment of immorality. Greed, hypocrisy, the ability to commit crime, dishonor for the sake of wealth, irresponsibility for one's actions in personal life - these are the main distinctive features this family. The head of the family is Prince Vasily Kuragin. This man does not look like either Nikolai Bolkonsky or Count Rostov. In eyes secular society Prince Kuragin is a respected man, close to the emperor, surrounded by a crowd of enthusiastic women, scattering secular courtesies and laughing complacently. Here is the peculiarity of Prince Vasily to speak: “he always spoke lazily, as an actor spoke the words old play". In words he was a decent, sympathetic person, but in reality he constantly had an internal struggle between the desire to appear a decent person and the actual depravity of his motives. Prince Vasily knew that influence in the world is a capital that must be protected so that it does not disappear, and, once realizing that if he begins to ask for everyone who asks him, then soon he will not be able to ask for himself, he rarely used this influence. But at the same time, he sometimes felt remorse. Tolstoy's favorite technique is the opposition of the internal and external characters of the characters. The image of Prince Vasily very clearly reflects this opposition. Fatherly feelings are not alien to Prince Vasily, although they are expressed rather in the desire to "attach" their children, rather than to give them fatherly love and warmth. According to Anna Pavlovna Sherer, people like the prince should not have children: “And why will children be born to people like you? If you weren't a father, I wouldn't be able to reproach you for anything. To which the prince replies: “I am yours ... and I can confess to you alone. My children are the burden of my existence.” The prince forced Pierre to marry Helen, and this is only for selfish purposes. All Kuragins are rather negative characters in the novel "War and Peace". They absorbed all the base, vicious features of Prince Vasily and his children. Helen, the daughter of Vasily Kuragin, is the embodiment external beauty and inner emptiness, fossils.

Bibliography

Literature.

 LN Tolstoy "War and Peace" -M, "Fiction" 1983, Volume I.

 LN Tolstoy "War and Peace" -M, "Fiction" 1983, II volume.

 LN Tolstoy "War and Peace" -M, "Fiction" 1983, III volume.

 LN Tolstoy "War and Peace" -M, "Fiction" 1983, IV volume.

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Lesson Objectives:

• to show that Tolstoy's ideal is a patriarchal family with its holy care of the elders for the younger and the younger for the elders, with the ability of everyone in the family to give more than to take; with relationships built on "good and truth";
• to reveal wider and deeper the epithet family in Tolstoy;
• to form the ability to analyze episodes;
• the ability to create a creative, friendly atmosphere in the classroom.

Equipment: the book "L.N. Tolstoy in portraits, illustrations, documents", A guide for the teacher. Moscow "Enlightenment", 1956.

Family - a group of relatives living together; unity, unity of people, united common interests. (S. Ozhegov "Dictionary of the Russian Language")

Lesson plan

1. Reflection of family thought in the novel.

2. "Eyes human window into his soul "(L. Tolstoy)

3. Why can't it be different in the Rostovs' house?

4. Bolkonsky's house.

5. No moral core in parents - will not be in children.

6. Family "circles".

7. Epilogue.

The students were given the challenge:

Group 1 - analyze portrait characteristics Natasha, Vera, Andrey, Marya, Helen;

Group 2 - analyze scenes showing the family life of the Rostovs;

Group 3 - analyze scenes showing the family life of the Bolkonskys;

4 group - family life of the Kuragins;

group 5 - family "circles" in the novel;

Group 6 - "Epilogue".

Introductory speech of the teacher

The theme of the family is present in one way or another in almost every writer. It received special development in the second half of the 19th century. Despite the fact that in the novel the leading role is given to folk thought, family thought also has its own dynamics of development, so "War and Peace" is not only historical, but also family romance. It is characterized by the orderliness and chronicle of the narrative. The stories of families presented in the novel, each has its own core and inner world. Comparing them, we can understand what norm of life L. Tolstoy preached.

The family for Tolstoy is the soil for the formation of the human soul. The atmosphere of the house, the family nest, according to the writer, determines the warehouse of psychology, views and even the fate of the characters.

In the novel "War and Peace" the family fulfills its true, high purpose. Tolstoy's house is a special world in which traditions are preserved, communication between generations is carried out; it is a refuge for man and the basis of all that exists.

In the system of all the main images of the novel, L. Tolstoy identifies several families, on the example of which the author's attitude to the ideal of the hearth is clearly expressed - these are the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs and the Kuragins.

Group 1 performance

Tolstoy's favorite heroes radiate, their eyes glow, because (according to popular imagination) the eyes are a mirror of the human soul: “The eyes look and speak to you.” The author conveys the life of the soul of the heroes through the radiance, radiance, sparkle of the eyes.

NATASHA- “a smile of joy and reassurance”, sometimes “happy”, sometimes “appearing because of ready tears”, sometimes “thoughtful”, sometimes “soothing”, “enthusiastic”, sometimes “solemn”, sometimes “more than affectionate”. “And the face with attentive eyes with difficulty, with effort, like a rusty door opens, smiled ...” (comparison). She looks with "inquiringly surprised eyes", "wide-open, frightened", "red and trembling", she looks at Anatole "frightened-inquiringly".

Natasha's smile reveals a rich world of diverse feelings. In the eyes - the wealth of the spiritual world.

NIKOLENKA -“When everyone got up for dinner, Nikolenka Bolkonsky approached Pierre, pale, with shining, radiant eyes ...”

PRINCESS MARIA- “radiant eyes and a heavy tread”, which, in moments of spiritual revival, made Marya’s ugly face beautiful. “... the eyes of the princess, large, deep and radiant (as if rays of warm light sometimes came out of them in sheaves), were so good that very often, despite the ugliness of the whole face, these eyes became more attractive than beauty”;

Marya "always looked prettier when she cried" in moments of deep emotion.

“Her face, from the time Rostov entered, suddenly changed ... All her inner, dissatisfied work, her suffering, striving for good, humility, love, self-sacrifice - all this shone now in those radiant eyes ... In every feature of her tender face ".

By definition, the radiant Tolstoy draws the inner world of his heroes, emphasizing precisely the “higher spiritual life” of the Bolkonskys. The word radiant appears in the text in combination with the nouns eyes, sight, light (eye), shine (eye).

ANDREY – «… kind eyes watched. But in his gaze, friendly, affectionate, the consciousness of his superiority was nevertheless expressed. (meeting with Pierre).

HELEN- “With a calm and proud smile, Helen shouted bravo in delight, - there, under the shadow of this Helen, there it was all clear and simple; but now alone, with herself, it was incomprehensible, ”Natasha thought (a metaphor,“ under the shadow of this Helen ”).

Spirituality, emptiness, according to Tolstoy, extinguish the sparkle of the eyes, make the face a lifeless mask: the soulless beauty Helen - a "beautiful statue" with a frozen smile - glistens and shines with everything except her eyes: smile" (in each portrait description Helen has an ironic tinge). Helen has an unchanging, ordinary, monotonously beautiful or self-satisfied smile. We do not see Helen's eye. Apparently, they are beautiful, like her shoulders, lips. Tolstoy does not draw her eyes, because they do not shine with thought and feeling.

FAITH- a cold face, calm, which "a smile makes unpleasant."

It is important for N. Tolstoy to emphasize the nature of a smile or the originality of the facial expression of a particular character, most often the author focuses on the expression of the eyes, the nature of the look.

One of the dominant means in creating portrait characteristics is the use of light adjectives as artistic definitions.

Group 2 performance. ROSTOVS (vol. 1, part 1, ch. 7-17; vol. 2, ch. 1-3; part 1, ch. 13-15; vol. 2, part 1, ch. 1-3; Part 3, Chapters 14-17; Part 5, Chapters 6-18; Vol. 3, Part 3, Chapters 12-17; Chapters 30-32; Vol. 4, Part 1, Ch. 6-8; ch. 14-16; part 2, ch. 7-9; part 4, ch. 1-3)

Rostova - the eldest "countess was a woman with oriental type thin face, 45 years old, apparently exhausted by children, ... The slowness of her movements and speech, which came from the weakness of her strength, gave her a significant look that inspired respect.

Rostov children.

Openness of soul, cordiality (name day, a holiday in honor of the guest Denisov, dinner in an English club in honor of Prince Bagration).

The ability of the Rostovs to attract people to themselves, to understand someone else's soul, the ability to empathize, sympathize (Petya Rostov and the French drummer; Natasha and Sonya, Natasha "revive" Andrey's heart; Natasha the patriot, without hesitation, gives all the carts for the wounded; caring for the wounded Bolkonsky Nikolai Rostov will protect Princess Marya on her father's estate from a rebellion of peasants.)

Conclusion: The Rostov family is closest to Tolstoy. Surrounding people are attracted by the atmosphere of love and goodwill that reigns here. Truly Russian hospitality. Selflessness distinguishes all family members. Sincerity, naturalness, liveliness of these people, the author conveys through their movements. The images are unusually plastic, full of vital charm.

The Rostovs are not capable of lying, secrecy disgusts their honest natures: Nikolai will inform his father about the loss to Dolokhov of 43 thousand. Natasha will tell Sonya about the upcoming escape with Anatole; write a letter to Princess Mary about the break with Andrei.

Group 3 performance. BOLKONSKIE(vol. 1, part 1, ch. 22-25; part 3 ch. 11-19; vol. 2, ch. 7-9; vol. 2, part 2, ch. 10-14; vol. 3 , part 3, chapters 1-3; part 3, chapters 20-24; v. 3, part 2, chapters 13-14; chapters 36-37)

Tolstoy treats the Bolkonsky family with warmth and sympathy.

PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDREEVICH. The Bald Mountains have their own special order, a special rhythm of life. The prince evokes invariable respect among all people, despite the fact that he has not been a member for a long time. public service. His active mind is constantly busy with something. He raised wonderful children.

PRINCESS MARIA. The compassionate heart of the princess experiences someone else's pain more than her own. “I saw a heartbreaking scene. It was a batch of recruits recruited from us and sent to the army. It was necessary to see the state in which the mothers, wives and children of those who were leaving were, and to hear the sobs of both. You would think that humanity has forgotten the laws of its divine savior, who taught us love and the encouragement of insults, and that it considers its chief merit to be in the art of killing one another.

Analysis of the chapters of the invasion of Prince Vasily with his son into the pure world of Princess Marya.

It is possible that it was thanks to the strict, sometimes harsh rules that the old prince established in his house that this pure, light soul, as close to God as it is possible for a person.

PRINCE ANDREI.“Nicholas Andreevich Bolkonsky’s son, out of mercy, will not serve anyone.”

How and why attitudes are changing family life Prince Andrew?

"Never, 0never marry, my friend ... what would I not give now, so as not to be married," says Pier. A dream of glory, of his Toulon. But his thoughts take a different direction when he, wounded, is carried away from the field of Austerlitz. A revolution takes place in Andrey's soul. Ambitious dreams give way to a craving for a simple and quiet family life. But he remembered the "little princess" and realized that in his dismissive attitude towards her he was often unfair. Life takes revenge on him for Bolkon's pride. And when the Prince, having become kinder and softened, returns to his native nest, the wife dies from childbirth.

4 group- KURAGINS (vol. 1, part 1, ch. 18-21; part 2, ch. 9-12; part 3, ch. 1-5; vol. 2, part 1, 6-7; t 3, part 2, chapters 36-37; part 3, chapter 5)

LN Tolstoy never calls the Kuragins a family. Here everything is subordinated to self-interest, material gain. All-consuming aspiration leaves its mark on the character, behavior, appearance of Prince Vasily, Helen, Anatole, Hippolyte.

BASIL- a secular person, a careerist, and an egoist (the desire to become the heir to the dying rich nobleman Count Bezukhov; a profitable party for Helen is Pierre; a dream: to marry Anatole's son to Princess Mary;). Prince Vasily's contempt for his sons: the "calm fool" Ippolit and the "restless fool" Anatole.

ANATOL(played a performance of passionate love for Natasha Rostova). Anatole endures the shame of matchmaking easily. He, who accidentally met on the day of marriage to Mary, holds Bourien in his arms. “Anatole bowed to Princess Mary with a cheerful smile, as if inviting her not to laugh at this strange incident, and, shrugging his shoulders, went through the door ...” He would cry once, like a woman, having lost her leg.

HIPPOLITE- mental limitation, which makes his actions ridiculous.

HELEN- "I'm not a fool to give birth" In this "breed" there is no cult of the child, there is no reverent attitude towards him.

Conclusion. The purpose of their life is to be in the spotlight of the world all the time. They are alien to Tolstoy's ethics. Empty flowers. Unloved heroes are shown in isolation from everything. According to S. Bocharov, the Kuragin family is deprived of that “ancestral poetry” that is characteristic of the Rostov and Bolkonsky families, where relationships are built on love. They are united only by kinship, they do not even perceive themselves as close people (the relationship between Anatole and Helen, the jealousy of the old princess for her daughter and the recognition of Prince Vasily that he is deprived of “parental love” and children are “a burden of his existence”).

This family of intriguers disappears in the fire of 1812, like the unsuccessful world adventure of the great emperor, all Helen's intrigues disappear - entangled in them, she dies.

Performance of the 5th group. FAMILY MUGS"(vol. 1, part 2, ch. 13-21; part 3, ch. 14-19; vol. 3, part 2, ch. 24-29; ch. 30-32; vol. 3, part 3, chapters 3-4)

The house as a calm, reliable marina is opposed to war, family happiness - to senseless mutual destruction.

The concept of HOME is expanding. When Nikolai Rostov returned from vacation, the regiment seemed like a home, as sweet as his parents' house. The essence of the home, the family, manifested itself with particular force on the Borodino field.

RAYEVSKY'S BATTERY“.. here on the battery ... one felt the same and common to everyone, as if family revival.” “These soldiers immediately mentally accepted Pierre into their family ...” (Analysis of the chapters)

Conclusion: this is where the defenders of Borodin drew strength, these are the sources of courage, firmness, and steadfastness. The national, religious, family principles miraculously merged at the decisive hour in the Russian army (Pierre is “all absorbed in the contemplation of this, more and more flaring fire, which in the same way ... flared up in his soul) and gave such a fusion of feelings and such actions, before which any conqueror is powerless. With a wise senile mind, Kutuzov understood this like no one else.

TUSHIN- an awkward, completely non-military artilleryman, with "big, kind and intelligent eyes." Captain Tushin's battery heroically fulfilled its duty, without even thinking about retreat. During the battle, the captain did not think about the danger, “his face became more and more animated” Despite his non-military appearance and “weak, thin, indecisive voice”, the soldiers loved him on his commander.” Tushin did not think about the fact that he could be killed, he only worried when his soldiers were killed and wounded.

KUTUZOV FOR MALASHI - grandfather (as she calls the commander in a related way). Episode "Council in Fili".

BAGRATION- "a son who is worried about the fate of the Motherland."

NAPOLEON- analysis of chapters 26-29, part 2, v.3. The writer emphasizes the coldness, complacency, deliberate profundity in Napoleon's facial expression.

One of his traits, posturing, stands out especially sharply. He behaves like an actor on stage. In front of the portrait of his son, he "made an appearance of thoughtful tenderness", his gesture is "gracefully majestic." Napoleon is sure that everything he does and says "is history"

RUSSIAN ARMY. There is a point of view that Platon Karataev, according to Tolstoy, is a generalized image of the Russian people. (Episodes related to Pierre in captivity). paternal attitude teaches Pierre as the son of gentleness, forgiveness, patience; Karataev fulfilled his mission - "remained forever in the soul of Pierre."

« EPILOGUE"- this is the apotheosis of family happiness and harmony. There are no signs of serious dramatic conflicts here. Everything is simple and reliable in the young families of the Rostovs and Bezukhovs: a well-established way of life, deep affection of the spouses to each other, love for children, understanding, participation,

Family of Nikolai Rostov.

Family of Pierre Bezukhov.

CONCLUSION: L.N. Tolstoy in the novel shows his ideal of a woman and family. This ideal is given in the images of Natasha Rostova and Marya Bolkonskaya and the images of their families. Tolstoy's favorite heroes want to live honestly. In family relationships, heroes keep such moral values as simplicity, naturalness, noble self-esteem, admiration for motherhood, love and respect. It is these moral values ​​that save Russia in a moment of national danger. The family and the woman - the keeper of the family hearth - have always been moral foundations society.

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The Rostov family occupies not last place in the life of high society. This is not surprising: they are rich, have powerful friends. Many representatives of this family are active throughout the entire epic novel, so the reader’s interest in the fate of members of this family does not weaken until last pages works.

Family Composition

The Rostov family includes seven characters - they are the closest blood relatives (the exception is Sonya). In addition, two characters are directly related to this family, although they are not relatives - Boris and Mitya.

Let us consider in more detail the heroes that make up the family.

At the head of the family is Ilya Andreevich Rostov - "a lively, cheerful, self-confident old man." He is not distinguished by frugality "rarely anyone knew how to make a feast in such a wide hand, hospitably, especially because rarely anyone knew how and wanted to put their money if they were needed for a feast." He is a gentle and trusting person, many do not miss the opportunity to take advantage of this moment.

“The count is so weak and so kind, and everyone deceives him so much that everyone going worse and worse." As a result, the family is ruined.

The misfortunes associated with ruin and military events dealt an irreparable blow to the count's health and he dies, asking for forgiveness for material disasters from members of his family.

Natalia Rostova

Natalia Rostova- Ilya Andreevich's wife. She “was a woman with an oriental type of thin face, about forty-five years old, apparently exhausted by her children, of whom she had twelve people. The slowness of her movements and speech, which came from the weakness of her strength, gave her a significant air that inspired respect.

The countess grew up in luxury, so she does not know how to save. By the end of the novel, her appearance and attitude towards saving changes noticeably - the reason for this was the difficulties that fell on her fate after the death of her husband, the death of most of her children.

The Rostovs had 12 children. At the beginning of the story, only four survived: Vera, Nikolai, Natasha and Petya. In addition, Sonya, a relative of the family, was taken in by the count and countess.

Vera Rostova"she was good, she was not stupid, she studied well, she was well brought up." It is obvious that, despite all diligence, she was an unloved daughter. Most likely, this was due to the fact that the girl was not able to show good feelings towards others, she was angry and callous in soul: “you never loved anyone; you have no heart, you are only madame de Genlis (this nickname, considered very offensive, was given to Vera by Nikolai), and your first pleasure is to make trouble for others. She was very beautiful outwardly, but “a smile did not adorn Vera's face, as is usually the case; on the contrary, her face became unnatural and therefore unpleasant. The girl does not like it when someone takes her things: “How many times have I asked you,” she said, “not to take my things, you have your own room. “She took an inkwell from Nikolai.”

Nikolay Rostov

Nikolay Rostov- the second oldest child of the Rostovs. He is a sweet and kind person, but unlike his father, there is a share of foresight and prudence in him. Marrying for money is alien to Nikolai: "the thought of marrying a rich heiress, which his relatives offered him, was disgusting to him."

“He especially has so much candor and heart. It's so pure and full of poetry." Nikolai knows how to learn from the mistakes of his parents. “I need our children not to go around the world; I need to arrange our condition while I live; that’s all,” says Nikolai. He knows how to find a common language with people of different classes and ages - the military subordinates to him were in admiration for his prudence and good attitude to themselves, the peasants find him an excellent owner who takes care not only of his wallet, but also of the people working for him.
Nikolay treats military service with trepidation: “The regiment was also a home, and the home is invariably sweet and expensive, like the parental home.” He is honest and frank person. “I can’t hide what I feel,” he says about himself.

Natalia Rostova

Natalya Rostova is similar in her moral principles to her brother. She is sensitive, kind, capable of self-sacrifice, in a word " rare girl". “Rostova is very nice. There is something fresh, special, non-Petersburg in her, which distinguishes her.

Natalya does not know how to be angry for so long, like Vera "this girl is such a treasure." Tolstoy portrays her to us as an ideal - she does not strive to lead a dissolute lifestyle, she is not attracted to public exits, she prefers to be the keeper of the hearth: “In society, the young Countess Bezukhov was seen little, and those who saw her were dissatisfied. She was neither nice nor kind."

Natalia is able to give care and warmth to other people and enjoy it. She stops taking care of herself, stopped making music, her only concern is her family. Faced with poverty and poverty, Natasha tries to prevent ruin in the future: “if he deserved reproaches from Natasha, it was only because he bought too much and too expensive. To all her shortcomings, according to the majority: slovenliness, omission, or qualities, according to Pierre, Natasha also added stinginess.

Petr Rostov

Petr Rostov- the youngest in the Rostov family. He is a sweet child and he has everything that children at his age have - he loves pranks and sweets: "a smaller, naughty, badly studied, breaking everything in the house and getting bored with everyone." Over time, Petya falls in love with military service. He stubbornly refuses to study, in an ultimatum form declaring his desire to be a military man. Relatives at first dissuade him, but, seeing his persistence, they give up. He becomes an officer: "having left home as a boy, he returned (as everyone told him) a fine man." Peter is capable of compassion. He looks with pity at the captured French boy: “Can I call this boy who was taken prisoner? give him something to eat."

Youthful maximalism pushes him to take part in hostilities, where he dies at the age of 16: “Petya fell heavily on the wet ground. The Cossacks saw how quickly his arms and legs twitched, despite the fact that his head did not move. The bullet went through his head."

Sonya Alexandrovna- niece of Countess Rostova. She was brought up by the Rostovs from a young age, therefore she considers the count to be her father, and the countess to be her mother. The girl is very grateful to them for taking her in and at critical moments for the family is ready to make every effort to help. “Sacrificing oneself for the happiness of others was Sonya's habit. Her position in the house was such that only on the path of sacrifice could she show her virtues, and she was used to and loved to sacrifice herself.

Sonya is friendly with Natasha - they are very similar in character. Unrequited love in her second cousin - Nikolai became disastrous for her, she could not create own family.

“She is virtuous. She fell in love with Nikolenka and doesn’t want to know anything else.” And, quite likely, she remained an old maid: “She had everything for which people are valued; but it wasn't enough to make him love her."

Boris Drubetskoy

Boris Drubetskoy is also directly related to the Rostov family, although he is not related to them. His parents are poor nobles, but Boris lived and was brought up by the Rostovs for a long time. At first, he was very friendly with Nikolai, but, gradually, their friendship came to naught. Boris began to show selfish feelings more and more, their views with Nikolai began to differ greatly. The desire to get rich takes possession of Boris, he tries to make the connections necessary for this, to marry for the sake of money. “He was not rich, but he used the last of his money to be better dressed than others; he would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to ride in a bad carriage or appear in an old uniform on the streets of Petersburg.

Like Boris, Mitenka was brought up by the Rostovs - he also has noble roots. Mitya becomes the manager of the prince's affairs.

Provision and financial situation of the family

Initially, we see that the Rostov family is very wealthy. They do not know poverty. The Rostovs have good housing, guests rush to "all of Moscow famous house Countess Rostova on Povarskaya. They have an estate in Otradnoye, also furnished with taste and wealth. They sometimes go there with the whole family. “With our lifestyle, our condition will not last long. And all this is the club and its kindness. We live in the village, do we rest? Theatres, hunting and God knows what.

“In Moscow, the Rostovs belonged to high society, without knowing it themselves and without thinking about which society they belonged to.” It seemed that they were familiar with all the nobles of Moscow. Extensive dating for a long time allow them to stay afloat, despite the impoverishment.

The Rostovs are nice and kind people, they do not hesitate to sincerely receive pleasant guests: “The whole family now seemed to him made up of beautiful, simple and good people».

"The Rostovs in St. Petersburg lived as hospitably as in Moscow, and the most diverse people converged at their dinners." This attitude is often the reason awkward situations- many were not averse to taking advantage of hospitality for selfish purposes. So, for example, Anna Mikhailovna "despite her improved affairs, she continued to live with the Rostovs." The military events of 1812 caused new trials. The Rostovs actively take part in military battles, the count and the countess help the wounded soldiers leave Moscow. They give them their wagons, deciding to save the soldiers, leaving all their wealth in Moscow.

“The wounded crawled out of their rooms and surrounded the carts with joyful pale faces. A rumor also spread in neighboring houses that there were carts, and the wounded from other houses began to come to the Rostovs' courtyard.

As you can see, the Rostovs stand out noticeably from the rest of the aristocrats. Compassion is not alien to them, they are always ready to help not only friends, relatives, people close to them, but also unfamiliar people who do not have titles and titles. The Rostovs have a pronounced sense of patriotism. They strive in every possible way to help stop the enemy army, sometimes sacrificing even the most necessary for them.

Relationships between relatives

Relationships in large families are always difficult. Sometimes parents do not know how to distribute love to their children in equal amounts, bestowing some praises, and others scolding, sometimes guilt. complex relationships becomes the influence of high society. In the Rostov family, this trend works poorly. The principles of society regarding public order are alien to them, and harmony within their family also looks unusual.

Natalya Rostova and Ilya Andreevich manage to maintain the quivering relationship until the end of their days. The ruin of the family makes its own adjustments to their relationship. Both the countess and the count understand that this might not have happened if Ilya Andreevich had behaved more prudently. The count feels guilty before his family, and the countess sometimes struggles with the desire to reproach her husband for what he has done. The fact that Natalya is not used to living in poverty reinforces the current situation. In their relationship there is "some kind of anxiety and sometimes disagreement, which has not happened before."

The Rostov children were friendly among themselves. They often spent time together. The exception was Vera - she did not know how to carelessly rejoice and have fun, she always tried to do everything well so that there was nothing to complain about, but she always went too far in this. The children shunned her. Natalya openly says that Vera is not capable of good feelings: “Vera is evil, God is with her!”. Nicholas even came up with a special nickname for her: "madame de Genlis".

Natasha and Sonya became very good friends. They have always supported each other. Sonya helps to hide Natalya's first love, which is taking a tragic turn, from her family. Sonya's falling in love becomes an obstacle to the full communication of the girl with Nikolai, but in general their communication is also friendly. Peter, who was rather sentimental, "clung to the company of Natasha, for whom he always had a special, almost loving, brotherly tenderness."

"In "War and Peace" they mean a lot family associations, the hero’s belonging to the “breed”. Actually, the Bolkonskys or Rostovs are more than families, they are whole lifestyles, families of the old type, with a patriarchal basis, old clans with their own special tradition for each kind, ”wrote S. G. Bocharov .

Let's try to consider the Rostov family in this aspect, the features of the "Rostov breed". The basic concepts that characterize all members of this family are simplicity, breadth of soul, life by feeling. The Rostovs are not intellectual, not pedantic, not rational, but for Tolstoy the absence of these traits is not a disadvantage, but only "one of the aspects of life."

The Rostovs are emotional, generous, sympathetic, open, hospitable in Russian, friendly. In their family, in addition to their own children, Sonya, the niece of the old count, is brought up, Boris Drubetskoy, the son of Anna Mikhailovna, who is a distant relative of them, has been living here since childhood. In a large house on Povarskaya, everyone has enough space, warmth, love, that special atmosphere reigns here that attracts others.

And people create it themselves. The head of the family is the old count, Ilya Andreevich. This is a good-natured, eccentric gentleman, careless and simple-hearted, the foreman of the English club, a passionate hunter, a lover of home holidays. He adores his family, the count has a close, trusting relationship with the children: he does not interfere with Petya's desire to join the army, he worries about the fate and health of Natasha after her break with Bolkonsky. Ilya Andreevich literally saves Nikolai, who got into an unpleasant story with Dolokhov.

At the same time, the Rostovs' economy is left to chance, the manager deceives them, the family is gradually ruined. But the old count is not able to correct the situation that has arisen - Ilya Andreevich is too trusting, weak-willed and wasteful. However, as V. Ermilov notes, it is precisely these qualities of the hero that appear in a "completely different, new sense and meaning" in a large, heroic era. In difficult war time Ilya Andreevich abandons his property and gives away wagons in order to carry the wounded. Here, in the novel, a special internal motive sounds, the motive of “transforming the world”: liberation from the world of material things is liberation “from all the chiffonieres of the old, evil, stupid world, sick of Tolstoy’s world with its deathly and deadening egoism, - that happiness of liberation, which he dreamed of for himself" and the writer himself.

Therefore, Tolstoy sympathizes with this character, in many ways justifying him. “... The most beautiful person was. You won’t meet such people today, ”acquaintances say after the death of the old count.

Remarkable in the novel is the image of Countess Rostova, who has a real gift for an educator. She also has a very close, trusting relationship with her children: the countess is the first adviser to her daughters. “Keep her strictly, forbid her ... God knows what they would do on the sly (the countess understood, they would kiss), and now I know her every word. She herself will come running in the evening and tell me everything, ”says the countess about Natasha, who is in love with Boris.

The Countess is generous, like all Rostovs. Despite the heavy financial situation her family, she helps her longtime friend, Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, by getting money for the uniforms of her son, Boris.

The same warmth, love, mutual understanding reign in relations between children. Long intimate conversations in the sofa are an integral part of these relationships. Natasha and Sonya are frank for a long time, left alone. Spiritually close and tenderly attached to each other, Natasha and Nikolai. Rejoicing at the arrival of her brother, Natasha, a lively, impulsive girl, does not remember herself with delight: she has fun from the bottom of her heart, kisses Denisov, tells Nikolai her secrets and discusses Sonya's feelings with him.

When the girls grow up, that special elusive atmosphere is established in the house, "as it happens in a house where there are very nice and very young girls." “Every young man who came to the Rostovs’ house, looking at these young, receptive, smiling girlish faces for something (probably to their own happiness), at this lively bustle, listening to this inconsistent, but affectionate to everyone, ready for anything, full of hope the babble of female youth ... experienced the same feeling of readiness for love and expectation of happiness that the youth of the Rostov house itself experienced.

Sonya and Natasha standing at the clavichord, "pretty and happy", Vera playing chess with Shinshin, the old countess playing solitaire - this is the poetic atmosphere that gives in the house on Povarskaya.

It is this family world so dear to Nikolai Rostov, it is he who gives him one of the "best pleasures of life." Tolstoy remarks about this hero: "gifted and limited." Rostov is unsophisticated, simple, noble, honest and direct, sympathetic and generous. Remembering his former friendship with the Drubetskys, Nikolai, without hesitation, forgives them an old debt. Like Natasha, he is receptive to music, to a romantic situation, to goodness. However, the hero is deprived creativity in life, Rostov's interests are limited to the world of his family and the landowner's economy. Pierre's thoughts about a new direction for the whole world are not only incomprehensible to Nikolai, but also seem to him seditious.

The soul of the Rostov family is Natasha. This image serves in the novel as that “code”, “without which the work could not exist as a whole. Natasha is a living embodiment of the very essence of human unity. The degree of spiritual closeness of this or that hero of "War and Peace" to Natasha is the surest criterion for his assessment. A measure of spiritual closeness to Natasha is at the same time a measure of closeness to the worldly beginning, ”notes V. Ermilov.

At the same time, Natasha embodies selfishness as a natural principle human life as a property necessary for happiness, for real activity, for fruitful human communication. Natasha's "natural egoism" in the novel is contrasted with the "cold egoism" of Vera and Helen, the sublime altruism and self-denial of Princess Marya, and Sonya's "selfish self-sacrifice". None of these properties, according to Tolstoy, is suitable for living, genuine life.

Natasha intuitively feels the very essence of people and events, she is simple and open, close to nature and music. Like other Rostovs, she is not very intellectual, she is not characterized by deep reflections on the meaning of life, the sober introspection of the Bolkonskys. According to Pierre, she "does not deign to be smart." main role feelings play for her, “life with the heart”, and not with the mind. At the end of the novel, Natasha finds her happiness in her marriage to Pierre.

The Rostov family is unusually artistic, musical, all members of this family (with the exception of Vera) love singing and dancing. During a dinner party, the old count famously dances “Danila Kupora” with Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, captivating the audience with “the surprise of his clever twists and easy jumps soft feet". “Our father! Eagle!" - exclaims the nurse, delighted with this wonderful dance.

Unusual is Natasha's dance at her uncle's in Mikhailovka, her singing. Natasha has a beautiful unprocessed voice, charming precisely with her virginity, untouchedness, velvety. Nikolai is deeply touched by Natasha's singing: “All this, and misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - all this is nonsense ... but here it is real ... My God! how good! ... how happy! ... Oh, how this third trembled and how something better that was in Rostov's soul was touched. And this something was independent of everything in the world and above everything in the world.

Only the cold, calm, “beautiful” Vera differs from all the Rostovs, from whose correct remarks it becomes “embarrassing” here. She is deprived of the simplicity and cordiality of the "Rostov breed", she can easily offend Sonya, read endless moralizing to children.

Thus, in the life of the Rostov family, feelings and emotions prevail over will and reason. Heroes are not very practical and businesslike, but their life values- generosity, nobility, admiration for beauty, aesthetic feelings, patriotism - worthy of respect.