sergei fetrovich bondarchuk wanted to play pierre bezukhov to such an extent that, in fact , he was imprintedpeople's consciousness as pierre, pierre, as it turned out, is 45 years old. in fact, pierre bezukhov is 19 years old at the beginning of the novel, this is still a completely small puppy, despite on the overall size of the organism. at the end of the novel he is 24, in the last scene 26, maximum . and accordingly andrei balkonsky at the beginning of 23, at the time of death 27, these are all very young people who make a huge number of life mistakes, as is typical for young people, some stupid marriages, some ridiculous duels, card losses, the devil knows what a bow is on the side, and through this they gradually mature, grow, learn to beat the enemy on communications, and not with a flag under ... and exactly at the moment when they are already are truly a large class ready to resist, napoleon makes a big mistake: on the night of the 12th, the neman was unexpectedly crossed by bonaparte's troops, who were accepted here by all the heroes of ivan nikolaevich. solovyov - at some point ,