«Voyna i mir» - velichayshiy roman-epopeya L'va Tolstogo, v kotorom sud'by lyudey perepletayutsya s sobytiyami Otechestvennoy voyny 1812 goda. Cherez istorii semey Rostovykh, Bolkonskikh i Bezukhovykh pisatel' sozdayet masshtabnuyu kartinu russkogo obshchestva, issleduya lyubov', chest', dolg, druzhbu i poiski smysla zhizni. Eto proizvedeniye ob"yedinyayet istoricheskuyu dostovernost', glubokiy psikhologizm i filosofskiye razmyshleniya o cheloveke, voyne i roli lichnosti v istorii.
Zaklyuchitel'naya chast' epopei podvodit geroev cherez poteri, voynu i dukhovnye perelomy k novoy zhizni. Final soedinyaet zavershenie lichnykh istoriy s razmyshleniyami Tolstogo o narode, istorii i roli otdel'nogo cheloveka.