IKBFU's Vestnik. Series: Philology, Pedagogy, 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»

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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