War and Peace

Characters in the Novel

The names chiefly used are in capitals.

THE BEZÚKHOVS

COUNT Cyril BEZÚKHOV

PIERRE, his son, legitimized after his father’s death, becomes Count Peter BEZÚKHOV

Princess CATICHE, Pierre’s cousin

THE ROSTÓVS

COUNT Ilyá ROSTÓV

COUNTESS Nataly ROSTÓVA, his wife

Count NICHOLAS Rostóv (Nikólenka), their elder son

Count Peter Rostóv (PÉTYA), their second son

Countess VÉRA Rostóva, their elder daughter

Countess Nataly Rostóva (NATÁSHA), their younger daughter

SÓNYA, a poor member of the Rostóv family circle

BERG, Alphonse Kárlich, an officer of German extraction who marries Véra

THE BOLKÓNSKIS

PRINCE Nicholas BOLKÓNSKI, a retired general-in-chief

PRINCE ANDREW Bolkónski, his son

PRINCESS MARY (Másha) Bolkónskaya, his daughter

Princess Elizabeth Bolkónskaya (LISE), Andrew’s wife

TÍKHON, Prince N. Bolkónski’s attendant

ALPÁTYCH, his steward

THE KURÁGINS

PRINCE VASÍLI Kurágin

Prince HIPPOLYTE Kurágin, his elder son

Prince ANATOLE Kurágin, his younger son

Princess HÉLÈNE Kurágina (Lëlya), his daughter, who marries Pierre

OTHERS

Princess ANNA MIKHÁYLOVNA Drubetskáya

Prince BORÍS Drubetskóy (Bóry), her son

JULIE Karágina, an heiress who marries Borís

MÁRYA DMÍTRIEVNA Akhrosímova (le terrible dragon) BILÍBIN, a diplomatist. DENÍSOV, Vasíli Dmítrich (Váska), a hussar officer Lavrúshka, his batman DÓLOKHOV (Fédya), an officer and desperado Count Rostopchín, governor of Moscow ANNA PÁVLOVNA Scherer (Annette), maid of honour to the ex-Empress Márya Fëdorovna Shinshín, a relation of Countess Rostóva’s Timókhin, an infantry officer Túshin, an artillery officer Platón KARATÁEV, a peasant