The tender, poetic Natasha Rostova is the ideal of a woman, as Leo Tolstoy sees him. In the epic novel War and Peace, he leads Natasha step by step from a thirteen-year-old girl to a mother of four children. How did it happen that Natasha stumbled along this path, betrayed her beloved groom Andrei Bolkonsky and threw herself into the arms of the secular gang of Anatoly Kuragin?
First love
Love for Prince Andrew is the first deep feeling that Natasha is destined to experience in her life. Adorable young girl in anticipation of love and a smart adult who survived an unsuccessful marriage - they could not pass each other. Prince Andrew sees a sincere, sensitive, life-giving nature and reaches out to her. Natasha meets the handsome prince at the ball and realizes that his happiness depends on her.
But the pink fleur of dreams suddenly dissipates. The old Prince Bolkonsky, not approving the choice of his son, sets him a condition - to postpone the wedding for a year, to spend this time in military service.
"Why the year?"
For Prince Andrei, this year is an annoying hindrance to happiness. He is a balanced person who carries love in his heart and does not want to upset his old father. But Natasha perceives separation and postponement of the wedding as a tragedy. She asks Andrei not to leave, as if she understands that this will not lead to anything good.
Natasha, with her indomitable thirst for life, seems a year to eternity. She wants to love today, now, and not later. By the end of the year, confidence in love remains rather than love itself. She wants admiration and admiration, she wants to be needed by someone.
Fatal meeting
In this state, Natasha meets in the theater with Anatole Kuragin. An empty poseur, fanfaron, he is handsome and knows how to charm women. Natasha is so fresh, sweet and does not look like bored secular ladies, that he decides to "drag herself behind her." He immediately begins the attack, and his sister, Helen Bezukhova, a man of the same sort, helps him.
Naive Natasha can not assume that she became the object of an empty affair. She had never been deceived. She believes Anatoly's exaggerated feelings. Even the fan’s strange behavior doesn’t bother her - Kuragin cannot go to the Rostovs house and ask for Natasha’s hands, because he is secretly married to a Polish noblewoman.
“Since yesterday, my fate has been decided: to be loved by you or to die” - this was the beginning of the message from Anatole, which his friend actually wrote.
In these circumstances, Natasha can no longer be the bride of Prince Andrew. She writes a letter of refusal to Bolkonsky and is going to run away with Anatole.
