WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy is a book for all times. It seems that it has always existed, the text seems so familiar, as soon as we open the first pages of the novel, many of its episodes are so memorable: hunting and Christmastide, Natasha Rostova’s first ball, a moonlit night in Otradnoye, Prince Andrei at the battle of Austerlitz... Scenes " peaceful, family life are replaced by pictures that are important for the course of all world history, but for Tolstoy they are equivalent, connected in a single stream of time. Each episode is important not only for the development of the plot, but also as one of the countless manifestations of life, which is rich in every moment and which Tolstoy teaches to love.