Character History
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy skeptically referred to his work and recognized Athanasius Feta that "War and Peace" - "Verious Scale". But no matter how much the great Russian writer was expressed, his creation is a classic genre and honors around the world: even foreign filmmakers are increasingly and more often represent their vision of this epic.
The work was loved by fans of literature for the fact that the writer showed life as it is: friendship and betrayal, love and treason. In addition, the author managed to scrupulously work the characters, revealing human psychotypes. Surely in the world a lot of dishonest Anatola Kuragin, who invade the life of married ladies and indifferently split their hearts.
History of creation
Lion Nikolayevich Tolstoy Naughty appealed to the theme of the war of 1812, because it was a huge shock not only for the empire, but also for the entire Russian people. As if beautifully described the Borodino battle, the creators of kinocartine (when brave soldiers jump on horseback against the background of the river, fog and ice lake), the war is always grief, pain, death and tears.
Therefore, the writer began to consider it difficult time to show how the character of a person changes against the background of the coming and past events. The bulky Roman-epic is not just a nontrivial plot telling about the love of Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky. The author brought the philosophical thought to his creation.
The idea of the work arose at Leo Nikolayevich not immediately. Initially, he wanted to tell readers about the hero-Decembristian, who was forced to return to his homeland after a 30-year reference. Tolstoy wanted to start his story from 1825 to show readers for which misdemeanor the main character was punished. But when Lev Nikolaevich wondered about 1812, he wanted to consider the life of not only one person, but also the whole Russian people as a whole.
The master of the pen was inspired by the idea. Tolstoy personally visited the place where the Borodino battle occurred, and also relied on the works of scientists and memoirs of contemporaries of the described events. The writer worked over the novel from 1863 to 1869 and managed to identify more than 550 characters. It is worth noting that the readers remember and antiheroev, for example, Anatoly Kuragin and his sister Helen, who are ready to go anything for the sake of personal benefit.
Biography
Anatole Kuragin plays a major role in the work, because thanks to his witchcraft charm, Natasha Rostov plunged into a romantic relationship and sent Andrei Bolkonsky letter with refusal. But no matter how attracting the angelic appearance of this young man, whom the author described as a tall and black handsome, is better not to climb into his soul. Natasha paid for his passion by this ladies.
It is known that Anatol was born in the family of Prince Vasily Kuragin and grew up with Hehlen and Brother Ippolit. Based on the behavior of this hero, we can safely judge that he did not receive due education. The guy possessed a cowardly and selfish character, and also dreamed of living idle, bliss in a secular society. In addition, in mental terms, Anatole did not imagine anything to themselves.
In the plot, ruddy snapped fascinated by Natasha Rostova, who answered with a young man reciprocating. And this is not surprising, because the father of Andrei Bolkonsky was against his relationship with Natasha and asked her son to postpone marriage for the whole year. It became a serious blow to the girl who gave free to emotions.
In addition, Prince Andrey went to the front, and the separation was unacceptable for the young Rostova, which died of boredom. Kuragin, taking advantage of the case, came to the bald mountains and seduced Natasha with his beauty.
Perhaps the novel of the main heroine and Anatol would have had a continuation if not for one fact: the beloved hid the fact that he was married to the Polish girl. But this circumstance did not prevent Kuragin to consider the plan of escape with Rostov abroad. That night, when the Anatol scheme was supposed to be realized, Mary Ahrosimova, who had Natasha, found out about the upcoming abduction of the girl. At the same time, Rostova became known that the lover has a wedding ring, so the girl tried to end the life of suicide with arsenic.
Anatole Kuragin, who brought into the life of people sorrow and misfortune, was expelled from the capital to instruct Pierre Probrelov. Then the reader finds out that the hero visited the war where he was injured. The limb amputated after the battle. There were rumors in Moscow that a young man died, but they were not confirmed by reliable facts.
More this Mount-lover in the novel of Leo Nikolayevich is not mentioned.
Activity and actors
Those who the work of Leo Tolstoy seems boring, it is worth knowing: the book was adapted by the famous directors who managed to surprise the audience the plot and the main characters performed by the famous stars of cinema.
Thanks to the full-length films, this novel began to enjoy demand in bookstores, for example, in 2016, the inhabitants of Great Britain began to buy Tom "War and Peace" after the release of the eponymous series. Film, which tell about the twigs of Bolkonsky, Rostova, Duzhkov and Kuragin, a lot. Therefore, we consider only well-known filmmakers.
"War and Peace" (1956)
The American representative of cinematic art King Vidor surprised the public, because he aimed at the knowledge of the Russian soul. The director released a ribbon in the Tolstoy novel of the same name, calling in the cast of famous stars, which worked with professional costumes on the shooting sites of Italy.
The roles got Henry Fund, chalk Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn and other stars, and the image of a cunning anatol was trying to Vittorio Gassman.
"War and World" (1967)
Soviet film chill did not lag behind the Hollywood colleague and removed a large-budget film with expensive sacrifices and costumes. The director spoke Sergey Bondarchuk.
And it is worth saying that the picture, the work on which lasted about six years, won the recognition of the audience: became the leader of the Soviet rental and won the Honorary Prize "Oscar". Lyudmila Savelyev, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Victor Stalitsan, Oleg Tabakov, Edward Martsevich and Boris Zakhava. The image of Kurabina embodied Vasily Lanovoy.
"War and World" (television series, 2007)
Austrian Robert Dorngelm presented his vision of the Russian novel, completely rewritten the plot. It is noteworthy that the film chills did not rely on the images created by the author of the work, so the actors do not advise the appearance of the main characters, but the series enjoyed the audience.
In the kidnapper, the Ladies of the hearts reincarnated Ken Duchene, who worked on one set with Clemence Poets, Alessio Boni, Dmitry Isaev, Vladimir Iliny and other actors.
"War and World" (television series, 2016)
In 2016, a six-partition series began to be broadcast on the BBC One channel, which helped popularize the novel among British readers. It is worth saying that the creators of the paintings changed the original story and tried to "split" the actors, which then appear in love scenes.
The role of Anatoly Kurabina performed Callum Turner. Also in a brilliant cast, Lily James entered, the floor was given, James Norton and Jesse Buckley.
Interesting Facts
- Lev Nikolayevich considered his novel unfinished. The work was to be completed by the return of Natasha and Pierre from the reference, however, the genius of literature never embodied his idea
- Among the researchers are the opinion that in fact the novel of Tolstoy was called "War and Mir". Based on pre-revolutionary spelling, the second word means "world" in the meaning of the "Universe". Based on these arguments, some literary critics interpreted the work.
- When military scenes were filmed in the film "War and Peace" (1956), the producers were invited to the "battlefield" of 65 doctors who were dressed in soldier uniforms. Thus, doctors could quickly help affected cascaders.