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"War and Peace" (1869) is a classic novel by Leo Tolstoy, which is undoubtedly a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. The novel chronicles the annals of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.
Volume One starts in 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée. The plot moves to Moscow, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to a lot more European society of Petersburg. The storyplot continues at a country estate, and then Tolstoy describes the impending Russian-French war preparations. The major event in the book is the Battle of Austerlitz, portrayed as an early test for Russia, which ended badly because the soldiers fought for irrelevant things such as glory or renown as opposed to the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at Borodino during the 1812 invasion.
