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19 unusual facts about War and Peace


Aruküla, Järva County

Russian general Karl Wilhelm von Toll, mentioned by Tolstoy in his epic "War and Peace", lived on Aruküla manor and is buried in a chapel on the grounds.

Brendan McKay

Outside of this specialty, McKay is best known for his collaborative work with a group of Israeli mathematicians that criticizes the Bible code hypothesis by arguing that the patterns in the Bible that supposedly indicate some hidden message from a divine source or have predictive power can be just as easily found in other works, such as War and Peace.

Dmitry Begichev

The Kholmsky Family is an important antecedent of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Karl Ludwig von Phull

Phull's involvement with the Russian campaign in 1812 is included in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, in which the general is known as Pfuel.

Karl Mack von Leiberich

Mack makes a brief appearance as a character in book one of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Matteis

Maria De Matteis, costume designer, won BAFTA Film Award in 1971 for Best Costume Design for her work in Waterloo (1970) and nominated for an Academy Award in 1957 for Best Costume Design, Color for her work in War and Peace (1956).

Miklós Erdélyi

In 1969 Erdélyi recorded Prokofiev's War and Peace for Rome Radio, and from 1977-82 served as a regular guest conductor with the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Nikolay Shchors

Her revolutionary name was Rostova, after the heroine of War and Peace, Natasha Rostova.

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The film also focuses on Juliette's love of literature, with sequences picturing Juliette's fantasies of being part of various classic novels, including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Ulysses and War and Peace.

Povarskaya Street

52 - Dolgorukov estate; the basis of the "Rostov Estate" in Tolstoy's War and Peace

Relayer

The album, loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, has the same structure as Close to the Edge released in 1972, with a long number on one side and two shorter songs on the other.

"The Gates of Delirium" is a dense, 22-minute piece that was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Silk Stockings

Other characters include Peter Boroff, Russia's greatest composer, who is being wooed by Janice Dayton, America's swimming sweetheart, to write the score for her first non-aquatic picture, a musical adaptation of War and Peace.

Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane

"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (Book VIII, Chapter 1 and First Epilogue, Chapter 5)

The Marine Biologist

While having a conversation with Elaine about his favorite yellow t-shirt, "Golden Boy" (which, due to its age, is "dying"), Jerry tells her the novel War and Peace was originally called War, What is it Good For? (a reference to Edwin Starr's hit song "War").

The Wars

His main distinction between The Wars and works like War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms is the compressed size of The Wars, usually being under two hundred pages (depending on the edition).

Tula, Russia

It was here that Tolstoy wrote his celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Vallauris

During his time in the town, he created a great many sculptures and paintings including War and Peace, one of the major artworks of the period.

Verkhnyadzvinsk

From 1801 it was the center of the Drissa uyezd of the Vitebsk Governorate, and during the War of 1812 it was the site of a fortified camp described by Leo Tolstoy in Book Three of War and Peace.


Alexey Rybnikov

The year 2013 is marked by the work on the stage version of the "Live Pictures of the time of Alexander I and Napoleon Bonapart" getting the new shorter name - modern opera "War and Peace"

Ennio de Concini

Among the 60 films to his credit are The Twist (1976), The Four of the Apocalypse (1975), Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973), Battle of the Worlds (1961), Black Sunday (1960), Long Night in 1943 (1960), Il Grido (1957), War and Peace (1956), and Mambo (1954).

Fatma Gadri

This led to emaciation in 1958, when Fatma Gadri suddenly fell unconscious at the Pushkin Moscow Drama Theatre, right before her final act in War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev, during the troupe's tour in Moscow.

Gérard de Cortanze

The first section of the story dramatizes his response to the invasion and his involvement in the battle scenes, which are perhaps modelled on those in War and Peace or Red Badge of Courage.

Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

Charlie Brown has a problem: He has to write a book report on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy over the Christmas holidays which is due on the first day back.

Harry Locke

In 1972, he played Platon Karataev in the BBC production of War and Peace— a brilliant performance as a "minor" character who advances the development of Pierre Bezukhov, the central character.

Pietro Pastore

After retirement, he became an actor, among other roles, he played small parts in Roman Holiday, Barabbas and War and Peace.

Stefania Toczyska

Her discography includes recordings of Il trovatore (as Azucena, opposite Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras and Yury Mazurok, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, 1980) and Prokofiev's War and Peace (with Galina Vishnevskaya, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, 1986).

Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis

Félicité de Genlis appears as a character in the works of the following writers, among others: Honoré de Balzac (Illusions perdues), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and Jane Austen (Emma).

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Outside his native country he is best known as a composer of music for such films as War and Peace, the 1966–67 film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev for Andrei Tarkovsky.