In Andrei Tarkovsky’s film 'Andrei Rublev', a village is punished ... Discover more about Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. As in War and Peace, the Russian defeat of Napoleon in 1812 ...

The length of War and Peace is partly explained by the length of time Tolstoy spent planning, writing and polishing it. The earliest draft storylines found in Tolstoy’s manuscripts date back to ...