Pétya Rostóv

Aliases

Pétya · Count Rostóv · the scapegrace · snub-nosed Pétya · Pétya Rostóva

Appearances

• First: Book SEVEN · Chapter IV · ¶ 10
• Latest: Book FIFTEEN · Chapter XII · ¶ 2

Relationships

• Sibling · Nicholas Rostov

  “Natásha came in with rapid steps... Pétya ran in at the same time.”

• Sibling · Natásha Rostóva

  “Her brother Pétya was upstairs too; with the man in attendance on him he was preparing fireworks to let off that night.”

  “She kept away from everyone in the house and felt at ease only with her brother Pétya.”

• Sibling · Natásha Rostóva

  “he treated her coldly, avoided her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natásha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness”

• Friendship · Váska Denísov

  “Denísov, having run through the dispatch. 'Why didn’t you say who you were?' and turning with a smile he held out his hand to the lad.”

• Friendship · Váska Denísov

  “But as soon as Denísov smiled at him Pétya brightened up, blushed with pleasure, forgot the official manner he had been rehearsing, and began telling him how he had already been in a battle near Vyázma...”

• Friendship · Private Dólokhov

  “Dólokhov, whose face was of a pale-greenish tint, shouting to his men.”

• Child · Count Ilyá Andréevich 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.”

• Parent (mother) · Countess Rostóva

  “the thought that both her sons were at the war, had both gone from under her wing”

• Mentor · Váska Denísov

  “I ask one thing of you,” he said sternly, “to obey me and not shove yourself forward anywhere.”

• Parent · Váska Denísov

  “Denísov did not reply; he rode up to Pétya, dismounted, and with trembling hands turned toward himself the bloodstained, mud-bespattered face which had already gone white.”

• Child (none) · Private Dólokhov

  “Denísov, bareheaded and with a gloomy face, walked behind some Cossacks who were carrying the body of Pétya Rostóv to a hole that had been dug in the garden.”

• Parent · Count Ilyá Andréevich 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) · Countess Rostóva

  “the thought that both her sons were at the war, had both gone from under her wing”

• Student · Váska Denísov

  “I ask one thing of you,” he said sternly, “to obey me and not shove yourself forward anywhere.”

Quotations

• “He was followed by Pétya who always kept close to her, by Michael, a huntsman, and by a groom appointed to look after her.”

• ““Good morning, Uncle! We are going too!” shouted Pétya.”

• “Nicholas rode with Natásha and Pétya to “Uncle’s” house.”

• “Pétya, leaning on his elbow, fell asleep at once.”

• “Before Natásha had finished singing, fourteen-year-old Pétya rushed in delightedly, to say that some mummers had arrived.”

• “Half an hour later there appeared among the other mummers in the ballroom an old lady in a hooped skirt—this was Nicholas. A Turkish girl was Pétya.”

• “Pétya was now a handsome rosy lad of fifteen.”

• “Well, Papa, I tell you definitely, and Mamma too, it’s as you please, but I say definitely that you must let me enter the army.”

• “Pétya went to his room and there locked himself in and wept bitterly.”

• “Pétya was a long time dressing and arranging his hair and collar to look like a grown-up man.”

• “It was on the very fact of being so young that Pétya counted for success in reaching the Emperor.”

• “Pétya no longer thought of presenting his petition. If he could only see the Emperor he would be happy!”

• “Pétya announced resolutely and firmly that if he was not allowed to enter the service he would run away.”

• “both her sons were at the war”

• “the passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer”

• “Pétya was in high spirits because having left home a boy he had returned (as everybody told him) a fine young man”

• “made the butler’s assistant and Pétya—whom she had drawn into the business of packing—press on the lid”

• “The officer was Pétya Rostóv.”

• “Pétya brightened up, blushed with pleasure, forgot the official manner he had been rehearsing.”

• “who were carrying the body of Pétya Rostóv to a hole that had been dug in the garden.”

• “he had seen the body of Pétya Rostóv”