In later life Prince Andrei rarely spoke of them as he found the memories too painful.

Prince Andrei spent the first couple of years in exile in France.

Prince Andrei had one daughter from his second marriage:

"There was a very popular movie, the novel is required reading in school, and every schoolgirl imagines she is in love with Prince Andrei."

She is the only child of Prince Andrei to have been educated at home by private tutors.

However, Prince Andrei is not listed among the dead or the officers taken prisoner, leading his father and sister to assume the worst.

He meets Prince Andrei, whom he insults in a fit of impetuousness.

Prince Andrei leaves to recuperate from his wounds abroad, leaving Natasha initially distraught.

Prince Andrei accepts coldly Natasha's breaking of the engagement.

Unknown to Natasha, Prince Andrei is amongst the wounded.