Nikolai Rostov: First Battle and Defining Moments

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Nikolai is the conventional good soldier, whose first taste of combat shatters his romantic notions of war and whose practical instincts eventually save the Rostov family.
Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 19

Nikolai's first battle at the Enns bridge / Schongrabern, fleeing in terror and confusion — the demolition of military romanticism.

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Volume II, Part 4, Chapter 4

The wolf hunt — Nikolai in his element of instinctive Russian gentry life.

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