As we work our way through the book, this list of characters will become more complete. Click on a character to read a summary of their story so far.
Minor characters are grouped with the main family with which they are most closely associated.
Fictional Characters
The Bezukhovs
Kirill Bezukhov
Pierre Bezukhov
Katerina Semyonovna (Katiche, Catiche)
Lorrain
The Rostovs
Ilya Rostov
Natalya Rostova
Vera Rostova
Natasha Rostova
Nikolai Rostov
Petya Rostov
Sonya
Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova
Pyotr Nikolaevich Shinshin
Berg
Mitenka Vasilievich
Taras
The Bolkonskys
Nikolai Bolkonsky (The old prince)
Andrei Bolkonsky
Marya Bolkonskaya
Liza Bolkonskaya (“The little princess”)
Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky (Andrei’s son)
Mademoiselle Bourienne (companion)
Mikhail Ivanovich (architect)
Tikhon (the old valet)
Alpatych (overseer)
The Kuragins
Vasili Kuragin
Ippolit Kuragin
Anatole Kuragin
Hélène Kuragina
Officers and soldiers
Fedor Dolokhov
Boris Drubetskoy
Prokhor Ignatych Timokhin
Zherkov
Prince Nesvitsky
Vasily "Vas'ka" Denisov
Prince Kozlovsky
Captain Tushin
Prince Dolgorukov
Other characters
Marya Dolokhova
Anna Drubetskaya
Julie Karagina
Marya Karagina
Anna Pavlovna
Abbé Morio
Mortemart
Bilibin
Osip Alexeevich Bazdeev
Historical Characters
The Russians
Paul I
Tsar Alexander I
Marya Fyodorovna
Kutuzov
Novosiltsev
Tolstoy
Wintzingerode
Prince Pyotr Bagration
Dmitry Dokhturov
Mikhail Miloradovich
Aleksey Arakcheev
Fyodor Rostopchin
Mikhail Speransky
The French
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Joachim Murat
Duc d'Enghien
Mademoiselle Georges
Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron
The Austrians and Prussians
Emperor Francis I of Austria
Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich
Johann Heinrich von Schmitt
Franz von Weyrother
Ferdinand von Wintzingerode
Maximilian von Wimpffen
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein
Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe
Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden