Count Ilyá Andréevich Rostóv

Aliases

the old count · Count Rostóv · the count · Count Ilyá Rostóv · Old Count Rostóv

Titles

Count

Appearances

• First: Book FOUR · Chapter II · ¶ 5
• Latest: Book FIRST EPILOGUE · Chapter V · ¶ 4

Relationships

• Marriage · Countess Rostóva

  “you spoil her, Ilyá,” she added, turning to her husband.”

  “Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded.”

• Social acquaintance · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya

  “Anna Mikháylovna entered the hall.”

• Social acquaintance · Prince Andrew Bolkónski

  “This Marshal was Count Ilyá Rostóv, and in the middle of May Prince Andrew went to visit him.”

• Friendship · Simon Chekmár

  “Chekmár... had lived on the best of terms for thirty years...”

• Friendship · Pierre Bezukhov

  “Count Rostóv’s mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre”

• Family (aunt) · Mávra Kuzmínichna

  “Go and get the samovar to boil for your grandfather.”

• Parent (father) · Nicholas Rostov

  “Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile”

  “Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión”

• Parent (father) · Natásha Rostóva

  “The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide and threw them round the little girl who had run in.”

  “Natásha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately”

• Military command · Prince Bagratión

  ““Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached to the first squadron?””

• Child · Pétya Rostóv

  “next day, Count Ilyá Rostóv—though he had not yet quite yielded—went to inquire how he could arrange for Pétya to serve where there would be least danger.”

• Child (child) · Nicholas Rostov

  “Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile”

  “Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión”

• Child (child) · Natásha Rostóva

  “The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide and threw them round the little girl who had run in.”

  “Natásha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately”

• Parent · Pétya Rostóv

  “next day, Count Ilyá Rostóv—though he had not yet quite yielded—went to inquire how he could arrange for Pétya to serve where there would be least danger.”

Quotations

• “old Count Ilyá Rostóv was very busy arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagratión”

• “the old man with a smile, as if he felt a little confused before his son”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión”

• “the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside his plate”

• “This Marshal was Count Ilyá Rostóv”

• “In 1809 Count Ilyá Rostóv was living at Otrádnoe”

• “cross with the stupid old man (as he called Rostóv)”

• “The general sat down by Count Ilyá Rostóv, who was next to himself the most important guest”

• “The old count, who had always kept up an enormous hunting establishment but had now handed it all completely over to his son’s care, being in very good spirits on this fifteenth of September, prepared to go out with the others.”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv, cheerful, flushed, and with quivering cheeks, drove up with his black horses over the winter rye to the place reserved for him, where a wolf might come out.”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv had resigned the position of Marshal of the Nobility”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv—though he had not yet quite yielded—went to inquire how he could arrange for Pétya to serve where there would be least danger.”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv, in a military uniform of Catherine’s time, was sauntering with a pleasant smile among the crowd.”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv smiled blandly and nodded approval.”

• “Count Rostóv at the back of the crowd was expressing approval;”

• “the count at last devised means to tranquillize her”

• “the head of the family, Count Ilyá Rostóv”

• “On waking up that morning Count Ilyá Rostóv left his bedroom softly”

• “Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded.”

• “Count Ilyá Rostóv died that same year”

• “the countess passed a fortnight in an armchair by his pillow”