War and Peace · primary
Prince Andrew Bolkónski
fictional · male
A handsome young man, husband of the little princess, known for his weary expression.
Aliases
André · Andrúsha · Prince Andrew · Bolkónski · Prince Bolkónski · Andrew Bolkónski · Bolkonksi · Andrew · our prince · Prince Andrew Nikoláevich
Titles
Prince · gentleman of the chamber
Appearances
- First: Book ONE · Chapter IV · ¶ 1
- Latest: Book FIFTEEN · Chapter XII · ¶ 2
Relationships
Conversation · Anna Pávlovna Schérer
““And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna”
Conversation · Vicomte
““That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew.”
Conversation · Pierre Bezukhov
““How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew.”
“'What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,' said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white hands.”
Conflict · Prince Hippolyte
“'Allow me, sir,' said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path.”
Marriage · the little princess
“The princess came in.”
Friendship · Pierre Bezukhov
“You are the first and only one to whom I mention this, because I like you.”
“his promise to Prince Andrew”
Sibling · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever.”
“How thoroughly like him that is!” he said to Princess Mary, who had come up to him.”
Friendship · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we think we thoroughly understand.”
Conversation · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“I did so wish to have another talk with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted.”
Friendship · Bilíbin
““Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor,” said Bilíbin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew.”
“Bolkónski is my guest in this house and in Brünn itself.”
Social acquaintance · Bilíbin
“They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutúzov.”
Social acquaintance · Prince Hippolyte Kurágin
“With Prince Hippolyte Kurágin, who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkónski was already acquainted.”
Conversation · Emperor Francis
“the Emperor Francis received him standing in the middle of the room.”
Friendship · Nesvítski
“Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little window.”
Social acquaintance · Captain Túshin
“Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Túshin”
Friendship · Prince Bagratión
“Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing Prince Andrew nodded to him.”
Friendship · Prince Bagratión
“Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him forward, and experienced great happiness.”
Friendship · Túshin
““Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to Túshin.”
Friendship · Túshin
““Good-by, my dear fellow,” said Túshin. “Dear soul! Good-by, my dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his eyes.”
Enemy · Nicholas Rostov
“I don’t know you and, frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.”
Rival · Nicholas Rostov
“Rostóv recalled their quarrel of yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought not to challenge Bolkónski.”
Friendship · Borís Drubetskóy
“Prince Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful smile.”
Friendship · Prince Dolgorúkov
“I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorúkov;”
Friendship · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
““You are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of his lower jaw.”
“remember that with all my heart I share your sorrow, and that for you I am not a Serene Highness, nor a prince, nor a commander in chief, but a father!”
Enemy · Napoleon Bonaparte
“he knew it was Napoleon—his hero—but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature”
Sibling (brother) · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“He came up the stairs and embraced his sister.”
“to be near her brother who was perhaps dying”
Friendship · Pierre Bezukhov
“Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years.”
“‘Understand, my dear fellow, that outside this union all is filled with deceit and falsehood...’”
Social acquaintance · Count Ilyá Andréevich Rostóv
“This Marshal was Count Ilyá Rostóv, and in the middle of May Prince Andrew went to visit him.”
Family · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“Prince Andrew would reply at such times very dryly to his sister...”
Conflict · Count Arakchéev
“You are proposing new military laws? There are many laws but no one to carry out the old ones.”
Social acquaintance · Emperor Alexander
“I came at His Majesty the Emperor’s wish to learn from your excellency how you propose to deal with the memorandum I have presented.”
Friendship · Count Kochubéy
“Prince Andrew spent the evening at Count Kochubéy’s.”
Social acquaintance · Count Arakchéev
“Kochubéy said a few words about the reception Arakchéev had given Bolkónski.”
Friendship · Speránski
“This first long conversation with Speránski only strengthened in Prince Andrew the feeling he had experienced toward him at their first meeting.”
Social acquaintance · Natásha Rostóva
“You remember, he stayed a night with us at Otrádnoe.”
Friendship · rostovs
“the Rostóv family welcomed him as an old friend, simply and cordially.”
Engagement · Natásha Rostóva
“I have come, Countess, to ask for your daughter’s hand,” said Prince Andrew.”
“he informed her of his engagement to Natásha Rostóva.”
Engagement · Natásha Rostóva
“No betrothal ceremony took place and Natásha’s engagement to Bolkónski was not announced; Prince Andrew insisted on that.”
“in which they told him of Natásha’s engagement to Bolkónski”
Rival · Anatole Kurágin
“he knew that when he did meet Kurágin he would not be able to resist calling him out.”
“he was glad to be free for a while from the distraction caused by the thought of Kurágin.”
Social acquaintance · Chernýshev
“Chernýshev introduced him to Pfuel, remarking that Prince Andrew was just back from Turkey where the war had terminated so fortunately.”
Friendship · Napoleon Bonaparte
“the Emperor, recognizing Bolkónski, addressed him graciously.”
Rival · Nicholas Rostov
“the name of Prince Andrew Bolkónski, appointed to the command of a regiment of Chasseurs.”
Friendship · Alpátych
“Alpátych, having sent his family away, was alone at Bald Hills and was sitting indoors reading the Lives of the Saints. On hearing that Prince Andrew had come, he went out with his spectacles on his nose, buttoning his coat, and, hastily stepping up, without a word began weeping and kissing Prince Andrew’s knee.”
Friendship · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
“I loved him and respected him, and sympathize with you with all my heart.”
Social acquaintance · Váska Denísov
“Ah? You’re Pwince Bolkónski? Vewy glad to make your acquaintance!”
Rival · Pierre Bezukhov
“It was unpleasant to Prince Andrew to meet people of his own set in general, and Pierre especially, for he reminded him of all the painful moments of his last visit to Moscow.”
Conflict · Barclay de Tolly
“He had no thought of betraying us, he tried to do the best he could, he thought out everything, and that is why he is unsuitable.”
Family (brother-in-law) · Pierre Bezukhov
“Pierre was told of the death of... Prince Andrew.”
Social acquaintance · Mávra Kuzmínichna
“She invited them to take the wounded man into the house.”
Family (sibling) · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“When the last convulsions of the body, which the spirit was leaving, occurred, Princess Mary and Natásha were present.”
Conversation · Pierre Bezukhov
“he now often remembered his conversation with Prince Andrew”
Parent (father) · Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski
“Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, your old father...”
Mentor · Pierre Bezukhov
“'But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.'”
“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.”
Romantic attraction · the little princess
“lifting her dress with one hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead.”
Mentor (superior) · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
“Kutúzov had received him very kindly, promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions.”
Military command · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
“Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski.”
“Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutúzov, who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s battle.”
Mentor (superior) · Pyotr Ivanovich Bagratión
“Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, received him with distinction and special marks of favor”
Mentor · Túshin
““we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,””
Mentor · Borís Drubetskóy
“I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing.”
Parent · Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski
“the old prince made over to him a large estate, Boguchárovo”
Romantic attraction · Natásha Rostóva
“Prince Andrew repeatedly glanced at Natásha, gay and laughing among the younger members of the company, and asked himself each time, 'What is she thinking about? Why is she so glad?'”
“approaching Natásha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation.”
Mentor · Speránski
“It was clear that he thought it necessary to interest himself in Bolkónski.”
“Bolkónski would soon have discovered his weak, human, unheroic sides; but as it was, Speránski’s strange and logical turn of mind inspired him with respect all the more because he did not quite understand him.”
Parent (father) · Prince Nicholas
“My father, to whom I have told my plans, has made it an express condition of his consent that the wedding is not to take place for a year.”
Military command (commander) · Barclay de Tolly
“Barclay de Tolly was quartered nearly three miles from the Emperor.”
Military command · Emperor Alexander
“Barclay, one day at dinner, informed Bolkónski that the sovereign wished to see him personally, to question him about Turkey”
Military command · General Bennigsen
“Prince Andrew was to present himself at Bennigsen’s quarters at six that evening.”
Mentor · Yákov Alpátych
“Mercy on us! Your excellency!” answered Alpátych, immediately recognizing the voice of his young prince.”
Mentor · Timókhin
“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!”
Child (child) · Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski
“Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, your old father...”
Student · Pierre Bezukhov
“'But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.'”
“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.”
Student · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
“Kutúzov had received him very kindly, promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions.”
Student · Pyotr Ivanovich Bagratión
“Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, received him with distinction and special marks of favor”
Student · Borís Drubetskóy
“I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing.”
Child · Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski
“the old prince made over to him a large estate, Boguchárovo”
Child (child) · Prince Nicholas
“My father, to whom I have told my plans, has made it an express condition of his consent that the wedding is not to take place for a year.”
Student · Yákov Alpátych
“Mercy on us! Your excellency!” answered Alpátych, immediately recognizing the voice of his young prince.”
Parent (father) · little Prince Nicholas
Quotations
“Prince Andrew Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband.”
“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French...”
““André,” said his wife, addressing her husband...”
““No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing...”
““Very lovely,” said Prince Andrew.”
“Prince Andrew was to leave next evening.”
“You have changed so, Andrúsha,” she added, as if to explain such a question.”
“Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we think we thoroughly understand.”
“I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,” said Prince Andrew.”
“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything...”
“You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a smile.”
“Prince Andrew Bolkónski came into the room”
“Prince Andrew had left Russia, he had changed greatly during that period”
“Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest lay in the general progress of the war”
“Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin”
“put the prince’s things in my bedroom”
“we can at any rate say without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...”
“you’re thinking it’s very easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire!”
“Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all,” said Prince Andrew”
“When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him”
“he went into Bilíbin’s study fresh, animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged.”
“Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt of this set.”
“I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied Prince Andrew looking at his watch.”
“I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, I can’t,” replied Bolkónski, smiling.”
“the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.”
“Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries.”
“I cannot argue about it,” replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he thought: “I am going to save the army.”
“Bolkónski set off to rejoin the army”
“Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,” thought Bolkónski”
“Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the doctor’s wife”
“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski”
“Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s death,” thought Bolkónski”
“had become acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkónski”
“Prince Andrew, whom Borís was expecting, entered the room”
“Rostóv noticed Bolkónski”
“He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmütz that day”
“Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously”
“noticing Borís, Prince Andrew, paying no more heed to the general”
“All right, all right. We’ll talk it over,” replied Prince Andrew.”
“Prince Andrew introduced his protégé”
“Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely”
“he knew it was Napoleon—his hero”
“it would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to Mary”
“Pierre came face to face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old.”
“Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,” said Prince Andrew.”
“I experienced just the reverse. I lived for glory.”
“Prince Andrew arrived in Petersburg in August, 1809.”
“Soon after his arrival Prince Andrew, as a gentleman of the chamber, presented himself at court and at a levee.”
“I know myself that one cannot help one’s sympathies and antipathies,” thought Prince Andrew.”
“He mentioned what he had written to an old field marshal, a friend of his father’s.”
“On the appointed day Prince Andrew entered Count Arakchéev’s waiting room at nine in the morning.”
“Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.”
“Prince Andrew entered a plain tidy room and saw at the table a man of forty with a long waist...”
“I came at His Majesty the Emperor’s wish to learn from your excellency how you propose to deal with the memorandum I have presented,” said Prince Andrew politely.”
“Prince Andrew smiled.”
“Prince Andrew looked up his former acquaintances”
“he was reputed to be clever and very well read”
“Prince Andrew recognized him at once”
“This flattered Prince Andrew”
“my father did not wish me to take advantage of the privilege”
“Prince Andrew felt the whole trend of thought he had formed during his life of seclusion quite overshadowed by the trifling cares that engrossed him in that city.”
“Bolkónski would soon have discovered his weak, human, unheroic sides;”
“In Prince Andrew’s eyes Speránski was the man he would himself have wished to be—one who explained all the facts of life reasonably,”
“During the first period of their acquaintance Bolkónski felt a passionate admiration for him similar to that which he had once felt for Bonaparte.”
“A week later Prince Andrew was a member of the Committee on Army Regulations”
“it was Bolkónski, who seemed to her to have grown much younger, happier, and better-looking”
“Bolkónski, do you see, Mamma?”
“Excuse me! he added, turning to the baron”
“Prince Andrew was again her partner”
“Prince Andrew liked meeting someone there not of the conventional society stamp”
“said Prince Andrew to himself”
“thought Prince Andrew”
“invited Prince Andrew to come and see them”
“Prince Andrew insisted on that”
“Prince Andrew was afraid and ashamed to speak of it”
“I beg you, Natalie, Prince Andrew said with sudden seriousness”
“he kissed her hand for the last time”
“relating to Andrew Bolkónski and his betrothed.”
“Natásha had refused Prince Andrew”
“He was awaiting Prince Andrew’s return with dread”
“Prince Andrew had received from his father Natásha’s note to Princess Mary”
“Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health”
“I have received a refusal from Countess Rostóva”
“I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn’t say I could forgive her.”
“Prince Bolkónski was your friend—is your friend,” she corrected herself.”
“Prince Andrew went to Petersburg”
“Prince Andrew found life easier to bear”
“Prince Andrew did not think it necessary to rush back to Russia”
“Prince Andrew asked Kutúzov to transfer him to the Western Army”
“Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills”
“Prince Andrew felt that he was a visitor”
“Prince Andrew, without looking up”
“Prince Andrew wished to leave at once”
“So you’ve decided to go, Andrew?”
“But a man should not and cannot forgive and forget”
“I am off to the army”
“Prince Andrew reached the general headquarters of the army at the end of June.”
“Prince Andrew found Barclay de Tolly, to whom he had been assigned, on the bank of the Drissa.”
“The Emperor was with the first army, but not as commander in chief.”
“Prince Andrew was to present himself at Bennigsen’s quarters at six that evening.”
“Prince Andrew arrived at Bennigsen’s quarters”
“Prince Andrew had never yet seen a German theorist in whom all the characteristics of those others were united to such an extent.”
“Chernýshev introduced him to Pfuel, remarking that Prince Andrew was just back from Turkey where the war had terminated so fortunately.”
“Prince Andrew’s eyes were still following Pfuel out of the room”
“the Emperor, recognizing Bolkónski, addressed him graciously”
“Prince Andrew, taking advantage of the Emperor’s permission, accompanied Paulucci”
“Of all these men Prince Andrew sympathized most with Pfuel”
“the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve”
“the name of Prince Andrew Bolkónski, appointed to the command of a regiment of Chasseurs”
“I saw in that same army order that he, Bolkónski is in Russia, and in the army again.”
“Prince Andrew arrived at Tsárevo-Zaymíshche”
“I belong to the province of Smolénsk.”
“Prince Andrew knew Denísov from what Natásha had told him of her first suitor.”
“I received news of his death, yesterday,” replied Prince Andrew abruptly.”
“having seen Prince Andrew”
“after his talk with Prince Andrew.”
“This wounded man was Prince Andrew Bolkónski.”
“Prince Andrew found himself in the ambulance station on the field of Borodinó.”
“They gave Prince Andrew some tea.”
“Is Timókhin here? he asked.”
“Yes, a new happiness was revealed to me of which man cannot be deprived, he thought as he lay in the semidarkness of the quiet hut.”
“But the face remained before him with the force of reality and drew nearer.”
“I love you, said Prince Andrew.”
“he had learned that Prince Andrew, after surviving the battle of Borodinó for more than a month had recently died in the Rostóvs’ house at Yaroslávl”