From jealousy, Pierre shoots her suspected lover, Dolokhov, in a duel. Hélène is not in love with Pierre, and has affairs. His inability to control his emotions and sexual passions lead him into a marriage with the vapid but sensually beautiful Princess Hélène, a match which her self-serving father, Prince Vasily, sets up to secure his access to Pierre's newly acquired vast fortune.
Pierre's life changes after he becomes the sole heir to his father's vast estate, and his position in society is changed from that of an illegitimate son to the new Count Bezukhov. After a particularly outrageous escapade in which a policeman is strapped to the back of a bear and thrown into a river, Pierre is sent away from St. His lack of direction leads him to fall in with a group of profligate young men like Anatole Kuragin and Dolokhov whose pranks and heavy drinking cause mild scandals.
Pierre, though intelligent, is not dominated by reason, as his friend Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is. Although a well-meaning, kind hearted young man, he is awkward and out of place in the Russian high society in whose circles he starts to move. Pierre is ensnared by the fortune-hunting Hélène Kuragina, whose eventual deception leaves him depressed and confused, spurring a spiritual odyssey that spans the novel.Īt the opening of the novel, Pierre is a young man who has recently returned to Russia to seek a career after completing his education abroad. His unexpected inheritance of a large fortune makes him socially desirable. He is educated in France and returns to Russia as a misfit. Pierre is described as the large-bodied, ungainly, and socially awkward illegitimate son of an old Russian grandee.
Tolstoy based Pierre, more than any other War and Peace character, on himself. Pierre is best friends with Andrei Bolkonsky. He is the favourite out of several illegitimate sons of the wealthy nobleman Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov, one of the richest people in the Russian Empire. Count Pyotr " Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov ( / b ɛ.
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