Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 8
Natasha's first appearance at her name-day celebration, running into the drawing room with the doll.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Natasha embodies spontaneous Russian life-force; she bursts into the novel as a thirteen-year-old whirlwind and becomes one of literature's most beloved heroines.
Volume II, Part 3, Chapter 15
Natasha's first grand ball, where Prince Andrei chooses her and falls in love.
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Natasha dances the Russian folk dance at Uncle's hunting lodge — the famous "where, how, and when did she absorb that Russian spirit" passage.
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Natasha at the opera and her seduction by Anatole Kuragin — the novel's most psychologically penetrating sequence.
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