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Anatole Kuragin
An unscrupulous army officer who’s friends with Anatole Kuragin. He’s a notorious gambler, cold-hearted, and remains clear-headed no matter how much he drinks. After getting demoted for antics involving a bear in Petersburg, he redeems himself by getting wounded and taking a prisoner at Schöngraben. While staying with Pierre Bezukhov, Dolokhov is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène, whereupon Pierre challenges him to a duel. After recovering from his dueling wound, Dolokhov befriends Nikolai Rostov and proposes to Sonya Rostov. To get back at Nikolai for Sonya’s refusal, Dolokhov goads Nikolai into a card game in which Nikolai racks up massive debt. After a stint as a Persian prince’s official, Dolokhov returns to war, asking and getting Pierre’s forgiveness on the eve of the battle of Borodino. He shows up again fighting alongside Denisov during partisan warfare in the fall of 1812.
Dolokhov Quotes in War and Peace
The War and Peace quotes below are all either spoken by Dolokhov or refer to Dolokhov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 2, Part 2: Chapters 15–18
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Here in the regiment everything was clear and simple. The whole world was divided into two unequal parts: one was our Pavlogradsky regiment, the other— all the rest. And with this rest he had nothing to do. In the regiment, everything was known: who was a lieutenant, who a captain, who was a good and who a bad man, and— above all— who was a comrade. […]
Having entered once more into these definite conditions of regimental life, Rostov experienced a joy and peace similar to what a weary man feels when he lies down to rest. This regimental life was the more pleasurable for Rostov during this campaign in that, after losing to Dolokhov (an act for which, despite all his family’s reassurances, he could not forgive himself), he had resolved to serve not as before, but, in order to smooth over his guilt, to serve well and be a perfectly excellent comrade and officer, that is, a fine human being— which seemed so difficult in the world, but so possible in the regiment.
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Dolokhov Quotes in War and Peace
The War and Peace quotes below are all either spoken by Dolokhov or refer to Dolokhov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Volume 2, Part 2: Chapters 15–18
Quotes
Here in the regiment everything was clear and simple. The whole world was divided into two unequal parts: one was our Pavlogradsky regiment, the other— all the rest. And with this rest he had nothing to do. In the regiment, everything was known: who was a lieutenant, who a captain, who was a good and who a bad man, and— above all— who was a comrade. […]
Having entered once more into these definite conditions of regimental life, Rostov experienced a joy and peace similar to what a weary man feels when he lies down to rest. This regimental life was the more pleasurable for Rostov during this campaign in that, after losing to Dolokhov (an act for which, despite all his family’s reassurances, he could not forgive himself), he had resolved to serve not as before, but, in order to smooth over his guilt, to serve well and be a perfectly excellent comrade and officer, that is, a fine human being— which seemed so difficult in the world, but so possible in the regiment.
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