Andrei Bolkonsky Stan Account

i used draw.io to make the chart and decided to make the little character images using makowka's picrew.

first, only the family connections:

upon planning for this chart, i really did underestimate just how many people's cousin boris really is... anna mikhailovna is related to the bezukhovs on her mother's side and the rostovs presumably on her father's side, making boris almost everyone's cousin. based on the way prince vassily and anna mikhailovna talk about count rostov and her closeness with countess natalya, i assumed that anna's relation was to the shinshin family, hence why i didn't list boris as sonya's cousin, since she is stated as being count rostov's niece. in a previous edition boris was also stated as being andrei's cousin, so... truly the people's cousin.

regarding the kuragin-bolkonsky connection, anna pavlovna refers to marya as "a relation of ours" when speaking to prince vassily, so i assume that they're also some sort of distant convoluted cousins of some kind. in previous drafts it seems like their connection was more obvious, with andrei even spending time living with the kuragins when he was a child. sorry to the maryatole and andretole crowds, but also it's war and peace, what do you expect.

additionally, in previous editions of war and peace, berg was countess natalya's cousin, meaning he would also be related to the rostovs and boris. sorry to the verg crowd.

onto the romantic connections:

dashed pink lines indicate one-sided feelings (such as with dolokhov and sonya) or mostly insignificant courtships/flirtations (like boris and marya). i considered putting anatole/natasha and hélène/dolokhov in that category, but i figured they were plot significant enough to warrant a solid line. dashed purple lines indicated previous marriages.

and for fun, the non-familial nor romantic dynamics:

this one was probably the most fun to make. again, dashed lines are primarily for one-sided beef, lmao, like vera's bitterness towards hélène for not coming to her party or sonya being angry at every woman who ever looked at nikolai. i almost put a dashed line between julie and marya's friendship due to them growing apart after julie's brothers die, but i couldn't bring myself to :( plus doing that for them would open a can of worms in relation to the back and forth in the friendships between dolokhov and nikolai and pierre that i was frankly too lazy for.