Incorrect Russian Lit Quotes

-Prince Bolkonsky TOTALLY had an affair with Catherine the Great, I mean this is basically canon. Why else would Paul basically place him under house arrest upon accession? I imagine it lasted for like a year in the late (17)70s, and when Catherine tired of him she hooked him up with an ambitious lady-in-waiting who died when Marya was ~6 and Andrei~13

-Vera and Boris are besties. I mean, as two bitchy social climbers growing up in a house full of Rostovs, they would kind of have to be. They are each the only childhood friend the other is regularly in contact with, and they totally get together on Tuesday nights in St. Petersburg to drink claret and gossip.

-In the epilogue, Natasha and Pierre are said to have three daughters and a son (Petya). We know two of the daughters’ names (Lise and Masha). Now for the headcanon: The third? Sonya. 

-Decembrist Nikolai Bolkonsky (II) is canon, right?

-As a child, Andrei was very close to his mother and somewhat distant and intimidated by his father. Her death caused him a lot of pain and he still gets emotional about it right up to his own death. Marya was younger, and had a closer relationship with their father, so she wasn’t as deeply affected but she cares because she knows Andrei does.

-Anatole dies at Borodino. (Honestly, it might be the best thing for him, given that it saves him from knowing about Helene.) His secret Polish wife has a daughter (how else could she have convinced Anatole to marry her?) who appears 20 years later in St. Petersburg looking remarkably like her dad. As might be expected, this causes a commotion. (Omg, I want to write this fanfic.)