by Leo Tolstoy: dramatised in nine parts by Jack Pulman

The Rostov family now at Troitska watched Moscow burn. Sonya and the Countess quarrelled bitterly about Nikolai and in her bitterness Sonya told Natasha that Andrei was among the wounded who were travelling with them. Immediately she went to Andrei and they were reconciled, but in spite of intensive nursing by Natasha he died. Pierre faced a firing squad but was reprieved, and met a peasant, Platon Karatayev, who gave him a new philosophy of life.

(First shown on BBC2)