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Nikolai: Wow, the stars sure are beautiful tonight.

Sonya: They are.

Nikolai: You know who else is beautiful?

Sonya: *blushes* Who?

Nikolai: Tsar Alexander.

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I know this is a blog for incorrect Russian lit quotes and not headcanons but I really want to know if you have any headcanons for the war and peace characters

I am so here for this, you have no idea. I spend way too much time thinking about this book and all 2,377 of its characters, I honestly sometimes don’t know how I have any room left in my brain. OKAY HERE GOES:

-Lise Meinen comes from a noble but impoverished family in Livonia (modern Latvia/Estonia, part of the Russian Empire but with its own German Lutheran aristocracy). She was sent to live with relatives in St. Petersburg for the express purpose of making a good marriage. The marriage to Andrei was mostly arranged by their relatives, and they didn’t know each other very well beforehand.

-Prince Bolkonsky TOTALLY had an affair with Catherine the Great, I mean this is basically canon. Why else would Paul basically place him under house arrest upon accession? I imagine it lasted for like a year in the late (17)70s, and when Catherine tired of him she hooked him up with an ambitious lady-in-waiting who died when Marya was ~6 and Andrei~13

-Vera and Boris are besties. I mean, as two bitchy social climbers growing up in a house full of Rostovs, they would kind of have to be. They are each the only childhood friend the other is regularly in contact with, and they totally get together on Tuesday nights in St. Petersburg to drink claret and gossip.

-In the epilogue, Natasha and Pierre are said to have three daughters and a son (Petya). We know two of the daughters’ names (Lise and Masha). Now for the headcanon: The third? Sonya. 

-Decembrist Nikolai Bolkonsky (II) is canon, right?

-As a child, Andrei was very close to his mother and somewhat distant and intimidated by his father. Her death caused him a lot of pain and he still gets emotional about it right up to his own death. Marya was younger, and had a closer relationship with their father, so she wasn’t as deeply affected but she cares because she knows Andrei does.

-Anatole dies at Borodino. (Honestly, it might be the best thing for him, given that it saves him from knowing about Helene.) His secret Polish wife has a daughter (how else could she have convinced Anatole to marry her?) who appears 20 years later in St. Petersburg looking remarkably like her dad. As might be expected, this causes a commotion. (Omg, I want to write this fanfic.)

-Ummmm that’s about it for now, I know I have more but I can’t think of any. If anyone has any war and peace or other russian lit headcanons they would like to share, feel free to send an ask.

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This blog has become my new favourite thing on tumblr; thank you for existing ,you amazing human being! By the way, what's your favourite Russian novel?

Also, War and Peace, probably. Although Crime and Punishment also has a lock on my heart.

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That was ninety percent gravity.

Luzhin’s wife, The Defense

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*high fives fellow War and Peace lover*

*high-fives you back* wooooooooo

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I always like to bring a little irony to a fire fight.

Hermann Karlovich, Despair 

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Nobody knows where my Genny has gone but Olga left the same time.Why is he holding her handwhen he’s supposed to be mine?

Tatiana Larina, Eugene Onegin

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I’m a hunter, and it’s you season.

Parfyon Rogozhin (to Nastasya Filippovna), The Idiot

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It’s a terrific year for the trans-seasonal trouser.

Karl Dreyer, King, Queen, Knave

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Count Rostov: i love my children! nikolai, natasha, petya, and *squints at smudged writing on hand* varric

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Should I read The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, or Crime and Punishment first?

That is tough. Personally I did Bros K, then Crime and Punishment, then the Idiot, which I think worked out well? I would recommend not doing C&P first because it's the most intense/depressing. That is some hardcore Dostoevsky shit right there. Not that Bros K is necessarily *accessible* but somehow I found it easier to handle. The Idiot is maybe the best but probably also the weirdest, so you may want to ease into that as well. So: Bros K first, then the Idiot and Crime and Punishment in whatever order. Just my opinion, though, live your life, bro.

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Otradnoe is home. And home is where you find your family. And you try not to make out with your family.

Countess Rostova (to Sonya), War and Peace

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See, this is why I don't leave St. Petersburg, all right? You leave St. Petersburg and bad shit happens. I mean, trees? Everywhere trees? What the hell is this place?

Nastasya Filippovna (on Pavlovsk), The Idiot

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I can't believe I died for this war.

Andrei Bolkonsky, War and Peace

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Maslova: You abandoned me. You left me to die.

Nekhlyudov: I wouldn't have done it if I'd known you were gonna hassle me about it.

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What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a great man before?

Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment

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Oh, Yelena, you’re too beautiful to be funny. It’s not your fault. You never had to compensate for anything. The rest of you ugly nerds need to give me some jokes, stat.

Ivan Voynitsky, Uncle Vanya