«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.
Vo vtoroy chasti sud'by geroev stanovyatsya slozhnee: voyna, lyubov', razocharovaniya i nravstvennyy vybor menyayut ikh vzglyady na sebya i okruzhayushchiy mir. Chastnaya zhizn' vsyo tesnee perepletaetsya s istoricheskimi sobytiyami.
