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A dinner and dance with the terrible dragon

A dinner and dance with the terrible dragon

All Tolstoy's Parties #4

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This is a bonus post for paying subscribers to accompany a weekly discussion post on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. It’s just a bit of fun.

A Boyar Wedding Feast (1883) by Konstantin Makovsky

#4 A dinner and dance with the terrible dragon (4.6/5)

After the rustling tedium of tea with the Rostovs, my expectations for Ilya Rostov’s dinner party were pretty low…

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