"All best moments his lives suddenly came back to him at the same time. And Austerlitz with the high sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and the girl excited by the beauty of the night, and this night, and the moon - and all this suddenly came to his mind.”
In theater studies there is such a term: the grain of the image. It means something important that defines a character. Depending on What appears to the actor and director as grain this image, they interpret the role. Tolstoy treats his characters in the same way as a director treats the characters in a play. Let us remember the words of Lev Nikolaevich himself: “I work painfully. You can't imagine how difficult this is for me. preliminary work deep plowing of the field in which I am forced to sow. It is terribly difficult to think and change your mind about everything that can happen to all the future people of the upcoming essay, a very large one, and to think about millions of possible combinations in order to choose 1/1000,000 of them.” Please note that Tolstoy calls his future heroes: people. For him, they are not characters created by his imagination and subordinated to his will, but people, independent individuals, each of whom the author must unravel, before what will this hero become? literary character. Let us also try to follow Tolstoy and unravel his Prince Andrei immediately and in the main thing, to comprehend the grain of his image.
So, the best moments of life - what are they? For everyone - their own. For some, a moment of luck will seem better, for others, a moment of glory... For Prince Andrei, these are the minutes when he realizes that he was following a false, deceptive path, when the illusion disappears and opportunity opens before him rethink your life. For most people, the collapse of illusions is a terrible moment, for Prince Andrei it is wonderful, the best in his life. For above all he loves the truth strives for it. And every time, renouncing the false path, he believes that now he will not be deceived, now he will find his true path. Please note: it’s the moments that stick in his soul. renunciations from past mistakes and delusions, minutes purification, rebirth. This is why Tolstoy loves his hero. And what they said directly about Prince Andrei applies to Pierre, and Natasha, and Princess Marya. All Tolstoy's favorite heroes make terrible, tragic mistakes. But it is important for the author How they atone for their guilt, as themselves will be judged for these mistakes.
Andrei Bolkonsky goes to the war of 1805 because he is tired of secular idle talk, because he is looking for a true cause. But that's not the only reason. It was there, on the battlefields, that he could become like his idol, Napoleon, and find “his Toulon.” Both from a psychological and historical point of view, it is very important that Napoleon is both an enemy of Prince Andrei and an object of worship. Important because it gives psychological analysis the misconceptions of an era that romanticized war, glorified conquerors and admired beautiful death on the battlefield. For Tolstoy, war is only blood and dirt, pain and the forced murder of one’s own kind. He leads his hero (and readers) to this truth: through all the intricacies of the military campaign of 1805 - on the Field of Austerlitz. Unbreakable internal relationship war and its incarnation - Napoleon - will clearly appear for the first time precisely after Battle of Austerlitz. And, debunking the cult of war, Tolstoy simultaneously debunks Napoleon, deprives him of all romantic veils. In Prince Andrei’s desire to realize himself in the image and likeness of his idol, to repeat his path, Tolstoy hates everything: both the idol himself and the desire to come true in stranger fate. And then a stunning insight comes to Prince Andrei.
Tolstoy is cunning. He will give young Bolkonsky All, what he dreams of will give him a repetition of Napoleonic finest hour. Just as the once unknown Buonaparte picked up the banner at the Battle of Arcola and carried away the troops with him, Prince Andrei raises the banner at the Battle of Austerlitz. But this banner, which in our hero’s dreams fluttered so proudly above his head, in reality turns out to be just a heavy stick, which is difficult and awkward to hold in his hands: “Prince Andrey again grabbed the banner and, dragging him by the shaft" ran after the battalion." For this very moment, Prince Andrei was ready to give his life! For Tolstoy, the very idea of beautiful death in battle is blasphemous. That’s why he describes his hero’s wound so sharply, so insultingly: “It seemed to him that one of the nearest soldiers hit him in the head with a strong stick, as if with all his might. It was a little painful, and most importantly, unpleasant...”
He ran, dragging the banner by the pole; fell as if he had been hit with a stick... And all for the sake of a small fat man uttering a few pompous phrases over him?! How pointless.
For this war is senseless, for the desire to become like Napoleon is shameful (“do not make yourself an idol” - one of the commandments, a postulate of Christianity!). And before the eyes of Prince Andrei, a clear, high sky will open - a symbol of truth. And the abrupt, sharp phrases generated by the confusion of the battle are replaced by a majestic, slow and deep narrative: “How quiet, calm and solemn, not at all like how I ran,” thought Prince Andrei, “not like how we ran, shouted and fought ...that’s not how the clouds crawl across this high, endless sky. How come I haven’t seen this high sky before? And how happy I am that I finally recognized him. Yes! Everything is empty, everything is deception, except this endless sky.”
Listen to what a solemn hymn to truth sounds like Prince Andrei’s renunciation of the deceptive path, the seduction of glory and its living embodiment - Napoleon! In return for his former idol, he acquires high and eternal values that he did not know before: the happiness of simply living, the ability to breathe, to see the sky - be.
Prince Andrei is captured, recovers and returns to Bald Mountains. He goes to the family he left for the sake of “Napoleonic” achievements. To his family, whom he loves now differently than he loved when leaving for the war, the value of which in his current understanding is immeasurably high. He was leaving from a woman who was deeply alien to him, who became his wife only through youthful thoughtlessness. He ran from her. Returns Prince Andrey did not go to that “little princess” with the “squirrel expression” who irritated him. Returns to his wife, whom he is ready to love, with whom consciously wants to share life. To the mother of your unborn child. Returns too late: Princess Lisa dies from childbirth. Prince Andrei's guilt before her remains unredeemed forever: there is no more terrible burden on a person's soul than unredeemed guilt before the deceased - God forbid you ever experience this! That's why on dead face Prince Andrei reads to his wife: “Oh, what and why did you do this to me?” - after all, we read on the faces of others own your thoughts!.. And this terrible minute is also among the “best”? Yes, too. For now Prince Andrey is taking another step from Napoleon.
Remember when we said that Tolstoy’s favorite heroes go through their path “from Napoleon to Kutuzov” in the novel? The best moments of Prince Andrei's life are milestones on this path. Disillusioned with Napoleon under the skies of Austerlitz, he renounced explicit imitate your idol. He has not yet realized all his “Napoleonic” traits, and has not yet renounced them. The tragic return to Bald Mountains is the logical result of his “Napoleonic” path, the result of his betrayal. Prince Andrei comes to a new round of his life not only with the truth acquired under the sky of Austerlitz, but also with an ever-bleeding wound of unredeemed guilt, with a naked soul, with a disturbed conscience. He will make a bitter confession to Pierre: “I know only two real misfortunes in life: remorse and illness. And happiness is only the absence of these two evils.” At Austerlitz, Prince Andrei learned the great truth: life has infinite value. But this is only part of the truth. Not only illness and death are misfortunes. Misfortune - and a troubled conscience. Before the battle, Prince Andrei was ready to pay for a moment of glory any price: “Death, wounds, loss of family, nothing is scary to me. And no matter how dear or dear many people are to me - my father, sister, wife - the most dear people to me - but, no matter how scary and unnatural it seems, I will give them all now for a moment of glory, triumph over people... “Now, after the death of his wife, Prince Bolkonsky knows: he paid for his cartoon Toulon her life. And this knowledge will forever turn him away from any kind of idolatry: the idol requires sacrificial living blood, he must sacrifice his conscience. And a restless conscience for the current Prince Andrei is a true misfortune. And, like everything in the novel, the new milestone in his path is significant in historical and national terms. This idea is perfectly developed by E. A. Maimin: “The living conscience of Andrei Bolkonsky is not only a psychological and individual fact. According to Tolstoy, the voice of a living conscience is strong and beneficial historical factor. Stronger and incomparably more beneficial than ambition than other generally recognized engines historical life. In accordance with Tolstoy’s deep conviction, the dictates of human conscience change life more quickly and in a more necessary direction than with the help of the so-called historical deeds of the greats of this world."
Having renounced the ambition that cost him so dearly, Prince Andrei also renounces active life. Now his goal is not to bring harm to people. Seclusion, withdrawal into oneself, external stop... But for Tolstoy this is not the true, great simplicity to which he leads his beloved heroes. Isolation from the world, gloomy opposition to it - but this is Napoleon in exile! And then Pierre comes to Prince Andrei - Pierre, experiencing his finest hour, who joined the Masonic lodge, captured by new ideas about the meaning of life, about active and active good. Not Pierre's success in arranging peasant life(in fact, they turned out to be complete failures!), but Prince Andrei needed his sincerity, his living energy. A conversation on the ferry about the meaning of existence, about the purpose of human life returns the prince to the world of people, again includes him in history. And then a meeting with Natasha becomes possible - not yet new love for Prince Andrei, but a burning desire to merge with the world of people, to feel alive again, active - to be reborn. Tolstoy allows himself an absolutely straightforward metaphor: the silhouette of an oak tree, alone among the blossoming greenery, and the green oak tree, reunited with the surrounding world. And myself straightforwardness of this metaphor, its unambiguous utility prove how important to the author now is the idea of the unity of man with his era and people, the idea of their natural inseparability: so important that he is even ready to sin against artistic taste, just to convey it to everyone reader. The entire further course of Prince Andrei’s life - cooperation and break with Speransky, love for Natasha, resentment that overcame this love and a new, purified and sublime feeling - everything is only indirect, but the only true one, Then chosen path to people. The path that led Prince Andrei “to Kutuzov.” He will still make mistakes, and be deluded, and will pay for his delusions at the highest level - but one way or another the sky of Austerlitz will not darken before him, the question on the dead face of his wife will remain an eternal reproach and warning, and the image of the girl Natasha, striving to merge with the world, will not fade , fortunately, commonality with all living things.
And the world” - attracts our attention and evokes sympathy from the first meeting with him. This is an extraordinary, thoughtful person who is constantly in search of answers to eternal questions about the meaning of life, everyone’s place in it individual person, including himself. In a difficult life, like each of us, there were many happy and tragic moments. So what moments of his life does he define as the best? It turns out that not the happiest ones, but those that became points of insight into the truth in his life, that changed him internally, and changed his worldview.
It happened that these moments were a tragic revelation in the present, which brought him peace and faith in his strength in the future. Leaving for his life, Prince Andrei sought to escape from the unsatisfying, seemingly meaningless life of the world. What did he want, what ideals did he strive for, what goals did he set for himself? “I want fame, I want to be famous people, I want to be loved by them.” And now his dream comes true: he accomplished and received approval from his idol and idol Napoleon. However, Andrei himself, seriously wounded, is now lying on the Pratsen Tora and sees the high sky of Austerlitz above him.
It is at this moment that he suddenly realizes the meaninglessness of his ambitious aspirations, which forced him to look for false truths in life and worship false heroes. What previously seemed significant turns out to be small and insignificant. Revelation awakens in the heart the thought that you need to live for yourself, your family. Changed, with new hopes for future life, the recovered Prince Andrei returns home. But here comes a new test: his wife Lisa, the “little princess,” dies during childbirth.
Love for this woman in the heart of Prince Andrei had long ago turned into disappointment, but when she died, a feeling of guilt in front of her awoke in Bolkonsky’s soul, since, having distanced himself from the unloved one, he abandoned her at a difficult moment, forgetting about the responsibilities of a husband and father. A severe mental crisis forces Prince Andrei to withdraw into himself. That is why, during their meeting at the ferry, he notes that Bolkonsky’s words “were affectionate, a smile was on his lips and face,” but his gaze “was extinguished, deathly.” Defending his principles in a dispute with a friend: to live for himself, without doing harm to others, Bolkonsky himself internally feels that they can no longer satisfy his active nature. Pierre insists on the need to live for others, actively bringing them good.
So “the meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei the era from which it began, although in appearance it was the same, but in inner world its new.” Bolkonsky’s soul has not yet been overcome, but he arrives at the Rostovs’ estate, Otradnoye.” There he meets Natasha for the first time and is amazed at her ability to always be Happy and joyful. Light poetic world The girls help Prince Andrei experience life in a new way. He was also deeply moved by the charm of the fabulous night in Otradnoye, merging in his heart with the image of Natasha Rostova.
This was another step towards the resurrection of his soul. On the way back I saw an old oak tree in the middle spring forest, Prince Andrei will no longer notice his clumsiness, the sores that led him to sad thoughts on the way to Otradnoye. Now the renewed prince looks at the mighty tree with different eyes and the essay from Allsoch 2005 involuntarily comes to the very thoughts that Pierre Bezukhov inspired in him during their last meeting: “Everyone needs to know me, so that my life doesn’t go on for me alone...
so that it is reflected on everyone and so that they all live with me!” Here they are, those moments that he himself now assessed, standing by the oak tree, as the best in his life. But his life was not over, and many more moments, happy and tragic, but which he would undoubtedly recognize as the best, await him ahead.
This is both a time of hope for joint happiness with Natasha, and his participation in Patriotic War, when he was able to devote himself entirely to serving his people, and even the dying minutes after being wounded, when the truth was revealed to him unconditional love to all people - even enemies. But I want to part with Andrei Bolkonsky, not showing the moment of his death, but leaving him, returned to life, full of hope in the forest, near the oak tree, after a happy night in Otradnoye.
Need a cheat sheet? Then save - “The best moments in the life of Andrei Bolkonsky (based on the novel by L. N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”). Literary essays!Andrei Bolkonsky, one of the main characters in L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace,” attracts our attention and arouses sympathy from the first meeting with him. This is extraordinary thinking person, who is constantly in search of answers to eternal questions about the meaning of life, the place in it of each individual person, including himself.
In the difficult life of Andrei Bolkonsky, like each of us, there were many happy and touching moments. So what moments of his life does he define as the best? It turns out that they were not the happiest, but those who became points of insight into the truth in his life, who changed him internally, and changed his worldview. It happened that these moments were a tragic revelation in the present, which brought him peace and faith in his strength in the future.
Leaving for war, Prince Andrei sought to escape from the unsatisfactory life of the world that seemed to him meaningless. What did he want, what ideals did he strive for, what goals did he set for himself? “I want fame, I want to be known to people, I want to be loved by them.” And now his dream comes true: he accomplished a feat and received approval from his idol and idol Napoleon. However, Andrei himself, seriously wounded, is now lying on Pratsenskaya Mountain and sees the high sky of Auster-face above him. It is at this moment that he suddenly realizes the meaninglessness of his ambitious aspirations, which forced him to look for false truths in life and worship false heroes. What previously seemed significant turns out to be small and insignificant. Revelation awakens in the heart the thought that you need to live for yourself, your family.
Changed, with new hopes for happiness in the future life, the recovered Prince Andrei returns home. But here comes a new test: his wife Liza, the “little princess,” dies during childbirth. Love for this woman in the heart of Prince Andrei had long ago turned into disappointment, but when she died, a feeling of guilt in front of her awoke in Bolkonsky’s soul, because, having distanced himself from the unloved, he abandoned her at a difficult moment, forgetting about responsibilities of husband and father.
A severe mental crisis forces Prince Andrei to withdraw into himself. That is why Pierre Bezukhov, during their meeting at the ferry, notes that Bolkonsky’s words “were affectionate, there was a smile on his lips and face,” but his gaze “was extinct, deathly.” Defending his principles in a dispute with a friend: to live for himself, without doing harm to others, Bolkonsky himself internally feels that they can no longer satisfy his active nature. Pierre insists on the need to live for others, actively bringing them good. So “the meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei the era from which his new life began, although in appearance it was the same, but in the inner world.”
Bolkonsky’s emotional drama has not yet been experienced, but he arrives at the Rostovs’ estate, Otradnoe. There he meets Natasha for the first time and is amazed at her ability to always be happy and joyful. The bright poetic world of the girl helps Prince Andrey experience life in a new way. He was also deeply moved by the charm of the fabulous night in Otradnoye, merging in his heart with the image of Natasha Rostova. This was another step towards the resurrection of his soul. Material from the site
Having seen an old oak tree in the middle of the spring forest on the way back, Prince Andrei will no longer notice its clumsiness, the sores that brought him to sad thoughts on the way to Otradnoye. Now the renewed prince looks at the mighty tree with different eyes and involuntarily comes to the very thoughts that Pierre Bezukhov instilled in him during their last meeting: “It is necessary that everyone knows me, so that my life does not go on for me alone.. So that it is reflected on everyone and that they all live with me!”
Here they are, those moments that Andrei Bolkonsky himself now assessed, standing by the oak tree, as the best in his life. But his life was not over, and many more moments, happy and tragic, but which he would undoubtedly recognize as the best, await him ahead. This is the time of hopes for joint happiness with Natasha, and his participation in the Patriotic War, when he was able to devote himself entirely to serving his people, and even the dying minutes after being wounded, when the truth of unconditional love for all people is revealed to him - even to enemies.
But I want to part with Andrei Bolkonsky, not showing the moment of his death, but leaving him, returned to life, full of hope in the forest, near the oak tree, after a happy night in Otradnoye.
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The life of every person is full of events, sometimes tragic, sometimes alarming, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful. There are moments of inspiration and despondency, take-off and mental weakness, hopes and disappointments, joy and sorrow. Which ones are considered the best? The simplest answer is happy. But is this always the case?
Let's remember the famous, always exciting scene from War and Peace. Prince Andrei, who has lost faith in life, abandoned the dream of glory, painfully experiences his guilt before deceased wife, stopped at the transformed spring oak, amazed by the power and vitality of the tree. And “all the best moments of his life suddenly came back to him: Austerlitz with the high sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and this girl, excited by the beauty of the night, and this night, and the moon...”.
Bolkonsky recalls the most tragic, and not at all joyful, moments of his life (not counting the night in Otradnoye) and calls them “the best.” Why? Because, according to Tolstoy, real man lives in a tireless search for thought, in constant dissatisfaction with himself and the desire for renewal. We know that Prince Andrei went to war, because life in big world seemed pointless to him. He dreamed of “human love”, of the glory that he would win on the battlefield. And now, having accomplished the feat, Andrei Bolkonsky, seriously wounded, lies on Pratsenskaya Mountain. He sees his idol - Napoleon, hears his words about himself: “What beautiful death! But at this moment Napoleon seems to him like a little gray man, and his own dreams of glory seem petty and insignificant. Here, under the high sky of Austerlitz, it seems to him that a new truth is revealed to Prince Andrei: he must live for himself, for his family, for his future son.
Having miraculously survived, he returns home renewed, with hope for a happy personal life. And here - new blow: the little princess dies during childbirth, and the reproachful expression on her dead face will haunt Prince Andrei for a very long time.
“To live, avoiding only these two evils - remorse and illness - that is all my wisdom now,” he will tell Pierre during their memorable meeting at the ferry. After all, the crisis caused by participation in the war and the death of his wife turned out to be very difficult and long-lasting. But the principle of “living for oneself” could not satisfy a person like Andrei Bolkonsky.
It seems to me that in a dispute with Pierre, Prince Andrei, without admitting it to himself, wants to hear arguments against such life position. He does not agree with his friend (after all, father and son Bolkonsky are difficult people!), but something has changed in his soul, as if the ice had broken. “The meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei the era from which his new life began, although in appearance it was the same, but in the inner world.”
But this strong and courageous man does not give up right away. And the meeting with a spring oak tree on the way to Otradnoye seems to confirm his joyless thoughts. This old, gnarled oak tree, standing like an “angry freak”, “between the smiling birches,” seemed to not want to bloom and be covered with new leaves. And Bolkonsky sadly agrees with him: “Yes, he is right, this oak tree is right a thousand times... let others, young people, succumb to this deception again, but we know life - our life is over!”
Andrei Bolkonsky is 31 years old, and everything is still ahead, but he is sincerely convinced that “there is no need to start anything... that he should live out his life without doing evil, without worrying and without wanting anything.” However, Prince Andrei, without knowing it, was already ready to be resurrected in soul. And the meeting with Natasha seemed to renew him, sprinkle him with living water. After an unforgettable night in Otradnoye, Bolkonsky looks around him with different eyes - and the old oak tree tells him something completely different. Now, when “no gnarled fingers, no sores, no old grief and mistrust - nothing was visible,” Bolkonsky, admiring the oak tree, comes to those thoughts that Pierre seemingly unsuccessfully instilled in him at the ferry: “It is necessary that everything they knew me, so that my life would not go on for me alone... so that it would be reflected on everyone and so that they would all live with me together.” It’s as if dreams of glory are returning, but (here it is, “dialectics of the soul”!) not about glory for oneself, but about socially useful activity. As an energetic and determined person, he goes to St. Petersburg to be useful to people.
There new disappointments await him: the stupid misunderstanding of his military regulations by Arakcheev, the unnaturalness of Speransky, in whom Prince Andrei expected to find “complete perfection.” human dignity" At this time, Natasha enters his destiny, and with her new hopes for happiness. Probably those moments when he confesses to Pierre: “I have never experienced anything like this... I have not lived before. Now only I live, but I can’t live without her,” Prince Andrei could also call the best. And again everything collapses: and hopes for reform activities, and love. Despair again. No more faith into life, into people, into love. It seems he will never recover.
But the Patriotic War begins, and Bolkonsky realizes that a common misfortune hangs over him and his people. Perhaps the best moment of his life has come: he understands that his homeland and people need him, that his place is with them. He thinks and feels the same way as “Timokhin and the whole army.” And Tolstoy does not consider his mortal wound on the Borodino field, his death senseless: Prince Andrei gave his life for his homeland. He, with his sense of honor, could not do otherwise, could not hide from danger. Probably, Bolkonsky would also consider his last minutes on the Borodino field the best: now, unlike Austerlitz, he knew what he was fighting for, what he was giving his life for.
So throughout conscious life beats the restless thought of a real person who wanted only one thing: “to be quite good”, to live in accordance with his conscience. “Dialectics of the Soul” leads him along the path of self-improvement, and the prince considers the best moments of this path to be those that open up new opportunities for him within himself, new, broader horizons. Often joy is deceptive, and again the “search for thoughts” continues, again moments come that seem better. “The soul must work...”
Andrei Bolkonsky, one of the main characters in L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace,” attracts our attention and arouses sympathy from the first meeting with him. This is an extraordinary, thinking person who is constantly in search of answers to eternal questions about the meaning of life, the place in it of each individual person, including himself.
In the difficult life of Andrei Bolkonsky, like each of us, there were many happy and touching moments. So what moments of his life does he define as the best? It turns out that not the happiest ones, but those that became points of insight into the truth in his life, that changed him internally, and changed his worldview. It happened that these moments were a tragic revelation in the present, which brought him peace and faith in his strength in the future.
Leaving for war, Prince Andrei sought to escape from the unsatisfactory life of the world that seemed to him meaningless. What did he want, what ideals did he strive for, what goals did he set for himself? “I want fame, I want to be known to people, I want to be loved by them.” And now his dream comes true: he accomplished a feat and was awarded
Approval from his idol and idol Napoleon. However, Andrei himself, seriously wounded, now lies on Pratsenskaya Mountain and sees the high sky of Austerlitz above him. It is at this moment that he suddenly realizes the meaninglessness of his ambitious aspirations, which forced him to look for false truths in life and worship false heroes. What previously seemed significant turns out to be small and insignificant. Revelation awakens in the heart the thought that you need to live for yourself, your family.
Changed, with new hopes for happiness in the future life, the recovered Prince Andrei returns home. But here comes a new test: his wife Lisa, the “little princess,” dies during childbirth. Love for this woman in the heart of Prince Andrei had long ago turned into disappointment, but when she died, a feeling of guilt in front of her awoke in Bolkonsky’s soul, since, having distanced himself from the unloved one, he abandoned her at a difficult moment, forgetting about the responsibilities of a husband and father.
A severe mental crisis forces Prince Andrei to withdraw into himself. That is why Pierre Bezukhov, during their meeting at the ferry, notes that Bolkonsky’s words “were affectionate, there was a smile on his lips and face,” but his gaze “was extinct, deathly.” Defending his principles in a dispute with a friend: to live for himself, without doing harm to others, Bolkonsky himself internally feels that they can no longer satisfy his active nature. Pierre insists on the need to live for others, actively bringing them good. So “the meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei the era from which his new life began, although in appearance it was the same, but in the inner world.”
Bolkonsky’s emotional drama has not yet been experienced, but he arrives at the Rostovs’ estate, Otradnoe. There he meets Natasha for the first time and is amazed at her ability to always be happy and joyful. The bright poetic world of the girl helps Prince Andrey experience life in a new way. He was also deeply moved by the charm of the fabulous night in Otradnoye, merging in his heart with the image of Natasha Rostova. This was another step towards the resurrection of his soul.
Having seen an old oak tree in the middle of the spring forest on the way back, Prince Andrei will no longer notice its clumsiness, the sores that brought him to sad thoughts on the way to Otradnoye. Now the renewed prince looks at the mighty tree with different eyes and involuntarily comes to the very thoughts that Pierre Bezukhov instilled in him during their last meeting: “It is necessary that everyone knows me, so that my life does not go on for me alone... so that it is reflected on everyone and so that they all live with me together!”
Here they are, those moments that Andrei Bolkonsky himself now assessed, standing by the oak tree, as the best in his life. But his life was not over, and many more moments, happy and tragic, but which he would undoubtedly recognize as the best, await him ahead. This is the time of hopes for joint happiness with Natasha, and his participation in the Patriotic War, when he was able to devote himself entirely to serving his people, and even the dying minutes after being wounded, when the truth of unconditional love for all people - even enemies - is revealed to him.
But I want to part with Andrei Bolkonsky, not showing the moment of his death, but leaving him, returned to life, full of hope in the forest, near the oak tree, after a happy night in Otradnoye.
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