In War and Peace Tolstoy tends to show characters speaking French when he wants to indicate their loss of touch with authentic Russian values. Many readers at the time of publication disliked the ...
His first choice is by a composer who - like the book's main character Pierre - adored ... Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. As in War and Peace, the Russian defeat of Napoleon in 1812 ...
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