Petya Rostov
Petya Rostov | |
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War and Peace character | |
Created by | Leo Tolstoy |
Portrayed by | Seán Barrett Sergei Yermilov Otto Farrant Kit Connor |
In-universe information | |
Full name | Pyotr Ilyich Rostov |
Nickname | Petya |
Gender | Male |
Title | Count |
Family | Ilya Rostov (father) Natalia Rostova (mother) Nikolai Rostov (brother) Vera Rostova, Natasha Rostova (sisters) Sonya Rostova (cousin) |
Nationality | Russian |
Count Pyotr "Petya" Ilyich Rostov (1797–1812) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. The youngest member of the Rostov family, Petya is initially a minor character; however, towards the end of the novel, Petya's importance to the plot increases as he joins the Russian army in their defence against the French invasion of 1812. In the latter stages of the book Petya takes part in an attack on a French corps and is fatally wounded. This scene, along with the death of Prince Andrei Nikolaeitch Bolkonski is one of the most famous (and shocking) in classical Russian literature.
Reception
George R. Clay asserts that Tolstoy's "choice of fifteen-year old Petya Rostov as the one through whom to dramatize Moscow's response to the arrival of Emperor Alexander is masterful for the number of effects it accomplishes simultaneously".[1]
See also
- List of characters in War and Peace
References
- ^ Clay, G.R. (1998). Tolstoy's Phoenix: From Method to Meaning in War and Peace. Studies in Russian Literature. Northwestern University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8101-1697-9.
External links
- "Petya Rostov (Character) from War and Peace (1956)," IMDb
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- Pierre Bezukhov
- Andrei Bolkonsky
- Natasha Rostova
- Marya Bolkonskaya
- Nikolai Rostov
- Hélène Kuragina
- Sonya
- Anatole Kuragin
- Petya Rostov
- All characters
- War and Peace (1915)
- War and Peace (1956)
- War and Peace (1966–67 series)
- War and Peace (1972 series)
- War and Peace (2007 miniseries)
- War & Peace (2016 series)
- War and Peace (1942 opera)
- Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2012 musical)
- War and Peace (1980 board game)
- War and Peace: 1796–1815 (2002 video game)