am not much of a reader, so it took me 18 months to read War & Peace. It was worth it. A wholesome experience through 4-5 characters. Initially I thought it was gonna be a book old people read, but you'd surprised how all the 5 Point of View characters are young & how deeply you can relate to it as a youngster. Never judge this book by its 'Classic' tag. It is surprisingly Progressive despite being called as a Classic.

I read a collection of short stories by Tolstoi. Excellent writing but of all of them there was not one that was not depressing. A couple of them flirted with an uplifting theme but that was always crushed. I do not believe I will commit to 1/2 a million words of gloom. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, though.

This does not explain anything.

I read this book but I don't get what Tolstoy wanted to tell... it's big book about strange people... I don't like none of them...

YASNAYA POLYANA

Yeah, after darkness reach hope,..

i actually just ordered this book the other day

Isn't it's banned in india?

Nope War and Peace in Junglemahal: People State and Maoists (by Biswajit. Roy)Was questioned that it was peresnt with bomb accused.It liberal media reported on Leotolstoy 😑

Fast forward to 2019. Here in India, you could be arrested and declared a naxal(anarchist militant) for having War and Peace in your home.

That's not the same book as this

War and Peace in Junglemahal: People State and Maoists (by Biswajit. Roy)Was questioned that it was peresnt with bomb accused.It liberal media reported on Leotolstoy 😑

can someone tell me why this is guy so well known? i remembered his name before but after watching this video i still don't seem to grasp anything

he's overthinking, lmao

If you interested Russian revolution, so I can recommend book "как закалялась сталь" "How steel was forgered". Nicolay Ostrovskiy write about his life, what was happened in Ukraine in 1915-1930.

Skilled writer

Stop reading the comments and actually start reading the book.

Because you're masochist.

Indians assemble xD

In India, if you read this book you are tagged as an anti-national 😄

@limasungba dorji It was so surreal!

@ΧΑΡΗΣ ΚΟΥΡΗΣ That's fake news,it was a different book with the same name by some Indian author. Media just misinterpreted

@Anurag Sharma Ah, OK.

War and Peace in Junglemahal: People State and Maoists (by Biswajit. Roy)Was questioned that it was peresnt with bomb accused.It liberal media reported on Leotolstoy 😑

@ΧΑΡΗΣ ΚΟΥΡΗΣ War and Peace in Junglemahal: People State and Maoists (by Biswajit. Roy)Was questioned that it was peresnt with bomb accused.It liberal media reported on Leotolstoy 😑

YouTube is anti-national 😂

Why should you give us spoilers?

So Tolstoy was a lefty?!.. Judging from the visuals btw

Here in india, people get arrested for keeping a book like this in their homes. Such a shame.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/why-have-you-kept-war-and-peace-book-at-home-bombay-hc-asks-vernon-gonsalves/article29286658.ece

@VitalNutrientsWar and Peace in Junglemahal: People State and Maoists (by Biswajit. Roy)Was questioned that it was peresnt with bomb accused.It liberal media reported on Leotolstoy 😑

Но все равно книга дрянь

I prefer to read the comments on YouTube videos...

I was reading ‘wonder’ the book and this book popped up because August was reading this.Dam August is smart.

Russian names are very hard to follow and remember.

i've landed on yasnaya polyana many times.

Here in Yugoslavia, we have a songwriter ("musician") rarely translated. I wonder if it is even possible. Because his sentences are not humanly possible in any language. Definition of a genius (Đorđe Balašević).

These types of books is something I’ve always wanted to read, a mix between small groups of people interacting and living in major historical moments

Reading Crime and Punishment rn, maybe this will be next! Although, maybe I should pick a slightly lighter novel to break it up, haha...

TFW u watch this vid after reading War and Peace twiceYeah, this is big brain time

Watch the movie.

I was going to read war and peace... but I have other book that I need to read.

Vladimir Nabokov, entering the classroom to explain to American students what Russian literature is, ordered to close the curtains more tightly. "Dark? — he asked and, having received confirmation, asked to include one soffit. — Became light ? He asked. It's Pushkin. Now turn on the second. - Became even brighter ? It's Chekov. Now open the curtains. Sunlight burst into the auditorium. It's Tolstoy!»

Yasnaya Polyana? Mf has been living in erangel all along eh

Бедный Толстой!? А вы знаете, что его жена-Софья Андреевна, несколько раз вручную переписывала его роман?..

I just started looking for a new book and this has now just fallen into my lap

Could you please recommend us self help books too?

Lol, russia make pubg yasnaya polyana real.

То, что декабристы боролись с Николаем 1, это глупость. Боролись они за власть. И почти все они были масонами

Ну наконец то узнал о чем она,я родился еще в совке, заставлляли читать-не читал,но сколько сочинений написал про раскрытие образа) даже когда в политех поступал

Next video on Dan Brown please

Whats the background piece?

I haven't read it because I don't speak Russian and I'm dubious of translated fiction...

Pubg guys??

War and Peace:https://youtu.be/l-8JknNgS6EPart II:https://youtu.be/YHtGE2I7bfo

No one talking about his ancestral mansion? Yasnaya Polyana? Pubg?

You can literally read into the mind of this guy

Russian novels are too long and boring

no they aren't. You need to go past the first 100 pages and then you will take the rhythm.

He forgot to mention that the novel ends on the theme of the desidents and their opposing political views that were discussed in the conversation between Characters.

Just FOR YOU GUYS TO KNOWIN Kazakhstan and Ukraine "War and Peace" is must read book(s) for every kids... Yeah, we didn't understand nothing... but our system think "different"

It was about Russia

Гениально

getting into War and Peace is like starting to watch One Piece from episode 1

Are thete audiobook?

Dostoevsky is better, if you ask me

even if you ask me. I would read every one of Dostoevsky's novels again, whereas I wouldn't read War and peace again. Even if it is clearly a masterpiece. Just doesn't strike my chords.

Imagine turning this into a book report......Oh Wait, Charlie Brown has done it

This is one of the best books I've read, I recommend it.Postscript. I read it in 8 days!

@Haykal Muhammad Sheer will

I read it and it's s about 900 pages of peace and 300 pages of war. If it was cut down to 400 pages it would've been better unless you're really into 19th century Russian aristocracy.

Приятно когда иностранцы говорят о русской литературе)

Everyone: War and Peace is so longMe: *Laughs in A Song of Ice and Fire*

Do we have to understand history and politics, in order to grasp "war and peace"? Anyone?

yasnaya polyanapubg players: screamsss!!!

The most noble Man ever lived on earth ...(read Tolstoy's death & you'll understand..)

Oh yeah? Give Stephen Kings unabridged edition of the stand a try

I have bear, my sister has bear, we all have near, because we leave in Russia. Russia svashennaya nasha derjava... and also...

Well done animation! Cheers!!!

Am i the only one who read the book before watching the video?

War what is good for?

Сам советует читать, и тут же множество фактов, чтобы не читать, что это было¿ Из воспоминаний современников, сам Л. Толстой не любил это произведение, оно вымученное ,потому что ему надо было быть на волне, чтобы его другие произведения печатались,(мб ему рекомендовано было (ненавязчиво)написать это)

Raise a glass to Tolstoy’s poor wife. She copied it out, by hand, twelve times.

The well known book conveys how relations were to be carried out

Не думала,что иностранцы читают этот фолиант

This is on your program.You are at the Opera.You're gonna have to study up a little bitIf you wanna keep with the plot.This is a complicated Russian novel.Everyone's got like 9 different names,So look it up in your program.We appreciate it, thanks a lot.Da da daDa da daDa da dAaA.........NATASHAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa

There's a war going on out there somewhereAnd Andrei isn't here...There's a war going on out there somewhereAnd Andrei Isn'tHere.

War and Peace is the glory of World literature. The greatest world classic.

Абсолютно искаженное изложение романа.

If War and Peace seems too intimidating to you; I suggest reading the Siege of Sevastopol, to get to know Tolstoy's writing style a little better.

I’ve been reading this one since the beginning of the year (along with a few other books), and I’m almost finished (I’m on the last section of chapters before the two Epilogues). The book is a lot to take in, but throughout my reading it, I’ve been learning so much about the period in which it’s set (which, frankly, I never learned about in school at all...it must have been something that would have been covered in a European history class, which I’d never taken). Watching this video before and now since reading it, it now makes so much more sense to me.I do have to ask, though, when does the semi-domesticated bear appear? Is it that stunt with the drunks and tossing a guy out of the window that takes place after Pierre has left the party he attended in the opening of the novel? I remember mention of a bear, but not much more.

We need Netflix or Prime to turn it into a show so I can feel like I've read it 😂

And I am happy that I can read it in original, I am Ukrainian, and people here are bilingual, ukrainian & russian)

If you recommended I should probably stay away from it.

Fun fact: The original title of this book was War, What is it good for? Tolstoys mistress came up with war and peace

eurojank before eurojank existed

It's surprisingly much easier to read than most other high brow classics, much easier than Dostoyevsky for example. It may be very long, but the story moves along at a good pace. But it is so much more than a good story, it is a very insightful discourse into the nature of war and how history is twisted and distorted by the people who report and write about it. A very rewarding read in many ways.

I read W&P recently and was so absolutely swept into Tolstoy's world that I read it again, starting the next day. It was extraordinary from the first page.Sadly, "Anna Karenina" did not hit me the same way.

The guy gets bankrupt to settle in a palace...slow claps

Did anybody else find the background piano irritating

I believe if you were talking about Russian Empire, which you were, you should’ve used the Russian Empire’s flag.

Триколор и был флагом РИ.

C a u s e I m n o t b o r e d . . . ?

Read it 3 days. Pierre wandering the battlefield is how I feel going through life.

Can someone please tell me the music used throughout the video. Thanks!

I tried to read a couple of Russian novels, but found them vastly overcomplicated. I love a good read, but this is too much.Three, now that I recall, and was both bored and confused by all of them.If a writer can't grab your attention on the first page and keep it thereafter, the book is not worth your time.

Imagine if he would have named it "War what is it good for" like he wanted,lmao

Anyone knows the name of the piece on the background?

It's not even that long a book

You never once mentioned his wife who happend to be a major influence in the creation of war and peace

I forgot about the bear

Correction: The Decembrists revolted against the conservative Tsar Nicholas I in 1825, not Tsar Nicholas II.

@Hoang Nguyen Huu Something "grips" (grabs/catches and holds) your attention and interest.

Valdimir The original title of the book, how Tolstoy spelled it was "Война и миръ". The meaning was exactly War and Peace, the old spelling of "world" was different: "мiръ". So the translation is perfectly correct. In Russian both words sounded the same, which gave the name some additional meaning (the pun was intended, methinks:)

TED-Ed I just saw The Decembrists in 2018!

@Sergei Серёга, опередил! я как раз хотел это написать! :)

@Pipe2DevNull, yes. "Декабристы" (Dekabristy) in Russian.