I shall no longer be in need of your assistance." "Thank you, gentlemen, for delivering me safely.
When he reached the threshold, the Count gave a wink to Pavel, the afternoon doorman, and turned with a hand outstretched to the two soldiers trailing behind him. Passing through Resurrection Gate, he turned his back on the lilacs of the Alexander Gardens and proceeded toward Theatre Square, where the Hotel Metropol stood in all its glory. Giving the startled fruit seller no time to reply, the Count walked briskly on, his waxed moustaches spread like the wings of a gull. "I see the blackberries have come in early this year!" "Hello, my good man," the Count called to Fyodor, at the edge of the square. Even the Bolshevik girls conversing before the windows of the State Department Store seemed dressed to celebrate the last days of spring. Their pinks, greens, and golds shimmered as if it were the sole purpose of a religion to cheer its Divinity. The sky was the very blue that the cupolas of St. Drawing his shoulders back without breaking stride, the Count inhaled the air like one fresh from a swim. The novel also goes into depth on other events in Russian history, such as its loss to Japan in the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, major famines in the 1930s, its participation in World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War in the early 50s.At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool. Though there were some challenges to the revolution, many members of the Russian nobility fled the country and the Soviet Union was created in 1922, when the novel begins. The October Revolution in the same year then abolished all classes of nobility and began Soviet rule in Russia. Spurred by a desire to escape autocratic rule, mutinies sprang up and Nicholas was ousted in 1917 in what became known as the February Revolution. These issues were compounded by Russia’s military failure throughout much of World War I, due largely to Tsar Nicholas II’s decision to take personal command of the army. The peasants experienced severe working conditions through the first two decades of the 20th century and were frustrated with the inequality between the classes. The lower class also provided the rest of the labor for the country. The upper class of landed nobility often did not work, instead owning estates that were staffed by lower-class servants. Prior to 1917, Russian society was structured into a rigid class system, with a Tsar at its head.
The novel takes place over a period of Russian history between 19, but it is also important to understand the dynamics of Russian society leading up to this period. Book 5, Antagonists at Arms (And an Absolution).Book 3, Antics, Antitheses, an Accident.Book 2, 1923, An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary.
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