Philology, pedagogy, and psychology

2019 Issue №2

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Victories and defeats of General Barclay de Tolly in the novel by L. Tolstoy «War and Peace»

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68-75

Abstract

The article analyses various means of creating the image of Barclay de Tolly, a great Russian commander who played, according to historians, a deci­sive role in defeating Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812. The author con­cludes that his portraying in the novel was very powerful not only due to the re-creation of the dominating attitude towards the general of that time but al­so to Tolstoy’s philosophy of history. According to Tolstoy, the course of events is caused by the interaction of two wills — divine and human.

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