EPISODE · Jun 21, 2026 · 5 MIN
War and Peace Volume 1 Book 1 Chapter 17
from The Tolstoy Library · host Leo Tolstoy
In which the Countess Rostóva, moved by friendship and a shared sense of faded youth, beseeches her husband for money to aid their young Borís, revealing the quiet sorrows and delicate bonds of their social world. Gentle tears are shed not only for the strain of pecuniary needs but for the tender loss that time and circumstance impose upon close companions.
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