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Petya Rostov

Field	Value
name	Petya Rostov
series	War and Peace
creator	Leo Tolstoy
portrayer	Seán Barrett
Sergei Yermilov
Otto Farrant
Kit Connor
full_name	Pyotr Ilyich Rostov
nickname	Petya
gender	Male
title	Count
family	Ilya Rostov (father)
Natalia Rostova (mother)
Nikolai Rostov (brother)
Vera Rostova,Natasha Rostova (sisters)
Sonya Rostova (cousin)
nationality	Russian

Sergei Yermilov Otto Farrant Kit Connor Natalia Rostova (mother) Nikolai Rostov (brother) Vera Rostova,Natasha Rostova (sisters) Sonya Rostova (cousin)

Count Pyotr "Petya" Ilyich Rostov (1797–1812) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. The youngest member of the Rostov family, Petya is initially a minor character; however, towards the end of the novel, Petya's importance to the plot increases as he joins the Russian army in their defense against the French invasion of 1812. In the latter stages of the book Petya takes part in an attack on a French corps and is fatally wounded. This scene, along with the death of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky is one of the most famous (and shocking) in classical Russian literature.

Reception

George R. Clay asserts that Tolstoy's "choice of fifteen-year old Petya Rostov as the one through whom to dramatize Moscow's response to the arrival of Emperor Alexander is masterful for the number of effects it accomplishes simultaneously".

References

Clay, G.R.. (1998). "Tolstoy's Phoenix: From Method to Meaning in War and Peace". Northwestern University Press.

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