War and Peace. In 4 volumes. Volume 1. Tolstoy L.N.

The epic novel “War and Peace” by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), perhaps one of the main books of not only Russian, but also world literature. This is a full-scale picture of Russia's life in the era of Napoleonic wars of 1805-1812. And, of course, the author in such a voluminous work teaches many lessons. What are the lessons of the first volume?

we will call their “French lessons” - this is not only and not so much about the secular society of St. Petersburg, where they speak perfectly and even think in someone else's language. This is about the false, nanosic - both in life and in the minds of compatriots. The main characters rush in spiritual searches: what to choose - invented, exhaust, empty or present. Living is better or better. How the return to the origins will pass, time will tell. But for this, the whole people will have to get a heavy wound, to be on the edge of death, like Prince Andrei? Or just a people, a simple people, will show the path to salvation? And can an educated society also become a people?

for senior school age.