Pyotr Nikolaevich Shinshin
Countess Rostova's cousin
BOOK ONE
Book One, Part One
Chapter 15
Countess Rostova’s cousin, an old bachelor who dresses like a young man and mixes his Russian and French in the most peculiar way. He has a “sharp tongue” and likes to talk.
Chapter 16
Shinshin uses his “sharp tongue” to goad a colonel into a patriotic outburst. It’s all the same to this old man: generals have come and gone, wars won and lost. What matters, dear friend, is the conversation!
Chapter 15
When Nikolai is in misery, and Natasha is in bliss, Vera is playing chess with Shinshin. I’m not sure whether she even looked up.
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