Ventures Shards/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the 2007 Exodus Studios animated film *Ventures Shards*.

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## Part 1: Breakin'

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.
Zack: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Leonardo: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Leonardo: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

## Part 2: Ventures Crossing

Leonardo: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Russell: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Russell: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Leonardo: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Russell: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Russell: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Russell: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Russell: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Jack: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Leonardo: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Jack: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Russell: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Russell: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Leonardo: (off-screen) *[Rocket flying and the planet...]*

## Part 3: Letter Late Than Never

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Leonardo: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Leonardo: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Russell: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Leonardo: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Russell: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Jack: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Leonardo: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Leonardo: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Russell: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Leonardo: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Jack: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Leonardo: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

## Part 4: Respections Creation

Russell: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Eddy: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Russell: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Russell: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Russell: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Russell: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Leonardo: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Leonardo: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Russell: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Leonardo: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Russell: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Leonardo: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Russell: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Leonardo: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Russell: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Leonardo: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Jack: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Leonardo: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Jack: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Russell: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

## Part 5: The Best of Ventures

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Russell: (off-screen) Ventures Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Nazz: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Zack: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Leonardo: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Nazz: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Leonardo: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Leonardo: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Russell: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Leonardo: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Russell: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Nazz: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Russell: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Jack: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Drake: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Russell: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Jack: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Drake: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

## Part 6: Ventures This Is Worldwide

Leonardo: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Russell: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Russell: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Nazz: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Russell: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Leonardo: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Russell: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Leonardo: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Russell: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Marcel: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Russell: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Russell: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Leonardo: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Nazz: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Eddy: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Russell: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Eddy: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Drake: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Drake: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Leonardo: (off-screen) What are you doing, buddy?

Nazz: (off-screen) No! You can't do that!

Andy: (off-screen) The life that you get on this planet is the same you will ever have on earth. Enjoy it.

Marcel: That's a really nice question. I love to travel, but only when I have time. The world is a really scarry place and we need to have all the experience we can possibly get.

Nazz: (off-screen) I like french fries.

Leonardo and Nazz: (off-screen) **(**Wow, that's a lot of music) ♪ When can be, when can be, when can be, when can be ♪

Eddy: Well, you're not going. Not one of you two lunatics or you either Pauly. That apartment complex is dangerous, nothing but death traps inside. Grown men go into that abandoned apartment and never see the light of day again. There are hallways that go in different directions on different floors. The walls are rotten, the staircases are cracked, the whole building could come collapsing down on you and kill you immediately, or keep you trapped in there so you would die a slow death. You know what it's like to suffocate? I'm not gonna sit here and let you kill yourself

Zack: (off-screen) What are those? Honkz!

## Part 7: V.E.N.T.U.R.E.S.

Leonardo: (off-screen) No, man. That's the key for the universe.

nazz: (off-screen) I am evil, and theres nothing you can do about it.

Leonardo: A new capture if they your future to save the universe.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Oh no!

Drake: (off-screen) I'm a boy!

Leonardo: (off-screen) The month of october has been really nice.

Russell: (off-screen) The new comedy for me.

Drake: (off-screen) Wow!!!!

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Nazz: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Drake: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Drake: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Russell: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Leonardo: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Russell: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Drake: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Leonardo: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Leonardo: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Drake: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Leonardo: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

## Part 8: Broken Power

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Leonardo: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Russell: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Jack: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Nazz: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Leonardo: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Russell: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Nazz: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Leonardo: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Russell: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Leonardo: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Nazz: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Drake: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Jack: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Russell: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

## Part 9: World Beyond

Russell: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Leonardo: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Leonardo: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Russell: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Nazz: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Zack: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Zack: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Jack: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Dave: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Russell: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Jack: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Russell: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

## Part 10: Lame and Ventures

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Leonardo: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Leonardo: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Russell: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Zack: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Russell: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Jack: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Russell: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Leonardo: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Leonardo: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Russell: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Drake: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Leonardo: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

## Part 11: Leonardo's The Last Stand

Zack: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Dave: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Leonardo: (off-screen)  The Ventures Shards travel to a hidden temple located on top of the building as Dana/Zuul and Louis/Vinz open the gate between dimensions and transform into demonic dogs. Gozer appears as a woman and attacks the Ghostbusters then disappears when they attempt to retaliate. Her disembodied voice demands the Ghostbusters "choose the form of the destructor".

Leonardo: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Jack: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Nazz: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Leonardo: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Russell: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined