#andrei bolkonski

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Say what you want about War and Peace 2007, but countess Rostova asking Andrei: "how is your father?" and Andrei answering "... ... Thanks... ... he's getting old." is peak prince Andrei.

[robertrayes]

War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations

Part Three: Andrei

Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)

[privetbaby]

[alleyskywalker]

Andrei Bolkonsky

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang <– I know the book says he’s supposed to be attractive but none of his actual descriptions ever appeased to me. hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: For what I could gather, he genuinely believes in and appreciates meritocracy. worst quality: A tie between judgemental hypocrite and really fucking closed off, cold and uptight. The former is probably objectively worse but the latter annoys me greatly in characters/people. ship them with: Pierre, I guess, if I have to choose. brotp them with: Also Pierre. needs to stay away from: Anatole, lol. But more seriously, young earnest girls like Lise (and Natasha) who he will inevitably come to despise for being “airheads” and has no idea what to do with as soon as the romantic “glow” has worn off. misc. thoughts: He’s the kind of uptight,  cold and distant, moralizing, hypocrite (from “fallen women should be forgiven, I say, but cannot do” to “I’m so happy Austria got screwed but how dare anyone else express the same thing I’m feeling”) who doesn’t seem to know how to relax for long enough to just have a damn good time that I feel REALLY alienated from. I’m wary of people like that in RL and strongly-dislike-to-hate them as characters. I hate how he treats Lise, I don’t think he has any idea what to do with women period once the initial infatuation is gone tbh, I don’t like tat he sees his father abusing his sister and hardly does anything at all about it, other than a single emotional outburst after which he just scuttles away back to the front. I do think, however, that he was completely justified in not wanting to resume his relationship with Natasha after she decided to end it in favor of being with someone else (Anatole). Forgiving someone is one thing; wanting to get back together with them is completely different.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Life lessons with Pierre Bezukhov:

“Never go to battle in a white suit.”

“Unless you are a drama queen and do it for the aesthetic”. Prince Andrei Bolkonski.

[alleyskywalker]

andrei bolkonsky for the ship meme

….Pierre is probably the only person I’d say I ship him with.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I cannot tell how much I love the relationship between Andrei and Masha in War & Peace. First of all because it is a siblingly relationship, but mostly because they love each other so much, even if they see life differently. 

Andrei is rather a cynic and an kind of an atheist, and a rencorous man, whereas Masha is very religious, hopeful and forgiving. Masha loves her brother nonetheless, and Andrei loves his sister and consents her --big example, when she begs him to carry an icon around his neck while he is away with the army and he complies-- and is very concerned about her wellbeing. 

He knows his father is unjust with her and he tries to protect her, tell her that she isn’t doing anything wrong, and even defying his father to a degree to protect her. Masha in turn cared for his wife, took his son as her own, and did everything she could to protect and foster his relationship with Natasha.

Andrei and Masha are sibling goals.

[ketrindoll]

Honestly, the more I think about it the less I can justify Natasha. I mean, she had her soulmate, a really nice guy and blew it all away just because some perv whom she knew for like 10s kissed her??? And why exactly everyone is so over her if she's been nothing but shallow? And yeah yeah, she did good things too, and regretted it, blah blah, she still behaved like a hysterical shallow idiot. Honestly, I lost all respect for her the moment she dropped Andrei for that man-whore. She does not deserve to be a main character when there is such women as Sonya and Marya Bolkonskaya. And then she got her happy ending while Sonya got nothing at all!? That's sick af