#nikolenka

[anotherfandomtrash]

Don't call him that

[thesquireinvictus]

'Who is right and who is wrong? No-one! But if you are alive, live. Tomorrow you will die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with all eternity?'

'God is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life.'

'There was nothing over him now except the sky—the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds slowly creeping across it. “How quiet, calm, and solemn, not at all like when I was running,” thought Prince Andrei, “not like when we were running, shouting, and fighting; not at all like when the Frenchman and the artillerist, with angry and frightened faces, were pulling at the swab— it’s quite different the way the clouds creep across this lofty, infinite sky. How is it I haven’t seen this lofty sky before? And how happy I am that I’ve finally come to know it. Yes! everything is empty, everything is a deception, except this infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing except that. But there is not even that, there is nothing except silence, tranquility. And thank God!”'

— Tolstoy

[andryushas]

Nikolenka and his papa! Andrei just told him a story and now he's getting sleepy (they both are.)

[70srat]

il vaut mieux improviser | adam / henri

He glanced down at the journal peeking out of his coat pocket, and a perilous idea started formulating in his mind, exhausting and exhilarating, that maybe he didn’t need the entire world to approve of who he loved. Maybe he just needed to love.

[anotherfandomtrash]

We did it boys, the whole character lineup of people who have been spinning in my head from 2022

[anotherfandomtrash]

Petya was asked to go on a walk with Nikolenka

[ashencreature]

@personnages

“Nikolenka!” Ella beamed, as she made her way toward her stepson. “There you are, darling. I’ve been looking for you. Have you ever built a snowman before?”

[andryushas]

Andrei and his boy