War and Peace · primary
Sónya Rostóv
fictional · female
The count's fifteen-year-old niece.
Aliases
Sónya
Appearances
- First: Book ONE · Chapter XI · ¶ 13
- Latest: Book FIRST EPILOGUE · Chapter X · ¶ 16
Relationships
Friendship · Natásha Rostóva
“‘We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just nonsense, but we are friends forever.’”
“Natásha began to sing her mother’s favorite song.”
Friendship · Nicholas Rostov
“Nicholas did not leave Sónya’s side, and gazed at her with quite new eyes.”
“Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sónya, blaming himself and commending her.”
Sibling · Natásha Rostóva
“she prayed for the members of her own family, her father and mother and Sónya, realizing for the first time how wrongly she had acted toward them, and feeling all the strength of her love for them.”
“Sónya, returning from the yard chilled and frightened.”
Friendship · Natásha Rostóva
“Sónya too was busy all this time, but the aim of her efforts was quite different from Natásha’s.”
“Sónya embraced Natásha and kissed her.”
Family (guardian) · Countess Rostóva
“The countess put her arms around Sónya and began to cry.”
Family (sister-in-law) · Nicholas Rostov
“Nicholas married Princess Mary and moved to Bald Hills with his wife, his mother, and Sónya.”
Rival · Countess Rostóva
“She could not find fault with Sónya in any way and tried to be fond of her, but often felt ill-will toward her which she could not overcome.”
Romantic attraction · Nicholas Rostov
““Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are everything!” said Nicholas.”
“I am in love with your brother once for all and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him as long as I live.”
Romantic attraction · Private Dólokhov
“He came because of Sónya.”
“He was pointedly attentive to Sónya and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his glances without coloring.”
Parent (mother) · Pelagéya Danílovna Melyukóva
“Pelagéya Danílovna Melyukóva, a broadly built, energetic woman wearing spectacles, sat in the drawing room in a loose dress, surrounded by her daughters...”
Parent (aunt) · Countess Rostóva
“Sónya, won’t you write to Nicholas?”
Child (child) · Pelagéya Danílovna Melyukóva
“Pelagéya Danílovna Melyukóva, a broadly built, energetic woman wearing spectacles, sat in the drawing room in a loose dress, surrounded by her daughters...”
Child (niece) · Countess Rostóva
“Sónya, won’t you write to Nicholas?”
Quotations
“Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece...”
“Sónya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes.”
“Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally.”
“pointing to Nicholas as he went out.”
“Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering angrily, came in at the other door.”
““It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed Sónya.”
““Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are everything!” said Nicholas.”
““I don’t like you to talk like that.””
“Sónya was sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her”
“Sónya wore a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy...”
“Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears...”
“But where is Sónya?”
“Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have come...”
“she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and that I was ungrateful...”
““Nicholas!” was all Sónya said, instantly turning white.”
““I am in love with your brother once for all...”
“Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count were all hugging him,”
“When Rostóv met Sónya in the drawing room, he reddened.”
“She was very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him”
“Sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening flower”
“Dólokhov... came because of Sónya”
“Sónya, Dólokhov, and the old countess were especially disturbed”
“He has proposed to Sónya!”
“I have already refused”
“Oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to Sónya.”
“Nicholas could not refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance.”
“Please, Vasíli Dmítrich,” Natásha was saying, “do come!””
“supper with Denísov, Natásha, and Sónya”
“forty-three was the sum of his and Sónya’s joint ages.”
“Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever.”
“here was no Sónya with whom he ought, or ought not, to have an explanation;”
“Sónya! Sónya!”
“Darling, sweetheart, come here!”
“Sónya? she thought”
“Sónya and her mother put themselves entirely in her hands.”
“say what you like, it’s still too long.”
“beside Sónya and in front of her mother”
“with her mother and Sónya among a minority of women”
“Natásha on one side was talking with Sónya and Borís.”
“Sónya said that Natásha was in her bedroom”
“about albums and fancywork with Sónya”
“Sónya was always getting frightened lest she should be in the way”
“with Sónya’s love and his promise to her”
“Sónya was nearly twenty”
“Because Sónya is poor I must not love her”
“Sónya passed to the pantry with a glass in her hand.”
““Yes, yes, I do remember something too,” Sónya answered timidly.”
““That is metempsychosis,” said Sónya, who had always learned well, and remembered everything.”
“Natásha, Sónya, Madame Schoss, and two maids got into Nicholas’ sleigh;”
“Really, how becoming it is to dear Sónya.”
“I’ll go,” said Sónya.”
“Nicholas did not leave Sónya’s side”
““I’m not afraid of anything,” said Sónya.”
“Sónya came along, wrapped in her cloak.”
“Sónya with Nicholas and the maids”
“searching beneath the eyebrows and mustache for his former and his present Sónya”
“Sónya, is it well with thee?”
“Yes! and with thee?”
“Sit down, Natásha; perhaps you’ll see him”
“Oh, Natásha!”
“Yes, I saw him”
“Nicholas told his mother of his love for Sónya”
“reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas”
“old Count Rostóv went to Moscow with Natásha and Sónya.”
“Bonjour, Sónya dear!”
“Sónya stood beside her, kissing her hair.”
““Don’t talk about it, Natásha. It wasn’t your fault so why should you mind? Kiss me,” said Sónya.”
“I can’t bear this waiting and I shall cry in a minute!” and she turned away from the glass, making an effort not to cry.”
““Natásha, your hair!...” whispered Sónya.”
““Look, there’s Alénina,” said Sónya, “with her mother, isn’t it?””
“she knew that Sónya with her severe and simple views would either not understand it at all or would be horrified at such a confession.”
“Sónya went to Natásha’s room”
“Sónya, pale and trembling with fear and agitation”
“What will Nicholas, dear noble Nicholas, do when he hears of it?”
“I won’t let it come to that... I shall tell!”
“Sónya noticed that Natásha sat by the drawing room window”
“on the day that Sónya, after listening at Natásha’s door, resolved to safeguard her”
“Sónya weeping in the corridor”
“Márya Dmítrievna glanced round at Sónya”
“Sónya who got up and went to her several times”
“Sónya entered the room with an agitated face.”
“Sónya told Pierre this as she led him along the corridor to Natásha’s room.”
“Sónya, who had a tear-stained face”
“Pierre, after giving the letters to Sónya, went to Márya Dmítrievna who was interested to know how Prince Andrew had taken the news.”
“Natásha insists on seeing Count Peter Kirílovich,” said she.”
“Sónya he wrote separately.”
“returning home as he had promised and marrying Sónya.”
“What would Sónya have done without the glad consciousness”
“What would Sónya and the count and countess have done”
“Sónya, who was considered an excellent reader, to read the appeal.”
“Sónya, with a quiver in her voice due chiefly to the attention that was being paid to her, read the last words:”
“But Sónya? And his plighted word?”
“Sónya alone directed the practical side of matters by getting things packed”
“Sónya felt that this was true”
““Don’t, Natásha! Leave it alone! We’ll get it all packed,” urged Sónya reproachfully.”
“Sónya’s attention as it passed the front porch.”
“Sónya, 'Prince Andrew is here, mortally wounded. He is going with us.'”
“Sónya nodded.”
“Sónya embraced Natásha and kissed her.”
“Sónya and Madame Schoss, who had not yet undressed, went out with him.”
“Oh, how terrible,” said Sónya returning from the yard chilled and frightened.”
“Natásha, you’d better lie in the middle,” said Sónya.”
“You know Sónya, my cousin? I love her, and promised to marry her”
“his promise to Sónya”
“the other from Sónya”
“no one can love you more than does Your Sónya”
“Sónya’s letter written from Tróitsa”
“she called Sónya to her”
“Sónya burst into hysterical tears”
“this feeling that Providence was intervening in her personal affairs cheered Sónya”
“she wrote that touching letter the arrival of which had so amazed Nicholas”
“This was Sónya.”
“the princess looked round and saw Natásha coming in, almost running—that Natásha whom she had liked so little at their meeting in Moscow long since.”
“Sónya was sitting by the table.”
“The countess and Sónya cried from pity for Natásha and because he was no more.”
“Sónya and the maids were holding her arms.”
“moved with his mother and Sónya to a small house”
“Sónya kept house, attended on her aunt”
““Oh, Nicholas, how can you talk like that?” cried Sónya, hardly able to conceal her delight.”
“Sónya had lived in his house”
“she is a sterile flower, you know”
“And everything annoyed her—Denísov’s shouting and laughter, Natásha’s talk, and especially a quick glance Sónya gave her.”
““Mary, dear, I think he is asleep—he was so tired,” said Sónya, meeting her in the large sitting room.”
“she was jealous of Sónya, of the governess, and of every woman”