#ДОЛОХОВ коля

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While I was searching for Nikolai's letter to Sonya, I found this passage:

The impression the princess made on Rostóv was a very agreeable one. To remember her gave him pleasure, and when his comrades, hearing of his adventure at Boguchárovo, rallied him on having gone to look for hay and having picked up one of the wealthiest heiresses in Russia, he grew angry. It made him angry just because the idea of marrying the gentle Princess Mary, who was attractive to him and had an enormous fortune, had against his will more than once entered his head. For himself personally Nicholas could not wish for a better wife: by marrying her he would make the countess his mother happy, would be able to put his father’s affairs in order, and would even—he felt it—ensure Princess Mary’s happiness.

But Sónya? And his plighted word? That was why Rostóv grew angry when he was rallied about Princess Bolkónskaya — Book 10, Ch. 14

Firstly, Nikolai, you hypocrite ass, you were against marrying for money.

Secondly, I know Nikolai falls in love with her later and Tolstoy insists that their marriage wasn't for money but now I can't blame people who see it as a marriage of convenience.

I think their interactions in the epilogue make much more sense now.

#i seriously forgot about this passage lmao #i remembered they found each other cute and thought that was fate when he saved her in bogucharovo #and he was attracted to her in voronezh but oh god this is whole New Level #i think i remember why i thought sonya should have married dolokhov thank you kolya for making me a die hard sonyakhov trash lmaooo #коля гусь ты лапчатый на твоём фоне даже долохов выглядит более достойным романтическим партнёром #ДОЛОХОВ коля #это ж надо было так умудриться