In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: In this novel, one of the principal characters finds great enlightenment after joining the Freemasons, and later he decides to assassinate a foreign leader. Attracted by that character's wealth in this work, Prince Vassily Kuragin gets him to marry his daughter, while his best friend temporary loses his fiance when Ellen's brother Anatole attempts to seduce her. In this novel, after serving General [*] Kutuzov to defend Moscow, Prince Alexey Bolkonsky succumbs to a wound, and his sister later marries Nikolay, while Pierre Bezuhov marries Natasha Rostov. For 10 points, name this novel which depicts the Battle of Borodino and describes Russia during the Napoleonic Era, written by Leo Tolstoy.
A:
Literature