Movable Types
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/11/26/071126crat_atlarge_wood
A review by the influential critic James Wood of the most recent translation of War and Peace by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Pupil of the People
http://www.sras.org/tolstoy_peasant_schools_at_yasnaya_polyana
An article about the schools Tolstoy established for his peasants at his estate, Yasnaya Polyana. These schools are not unlike the reforms that Pierre Bezukhov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky make on their own estates in the novel (albeit with different levels of success).
War and Peace, 1956 – Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPcabrwzoY
A trailer for the 1956 American film adaptation of the novel
'War and Peace' Sparks a Literary Skirmish
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15524432
A National Public Radio piece about the differences between two recent translations of War and Peace
Prominent Russians: Alexander I
http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/the-romanov-dynasty/alexander-i/
A biographical article about Tsar Alexander I, who appears periodically throughout War and Peace
