War and Peace · Character
Nikíta
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 140
Nikita belongs to the busy, half-seen world of servants, where a card game can be interrupted by the next household errand. He gives a glimpse of ordinary human life humming just beyond the grand rooms.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- young adult
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 140
- Books
- 1
Nikita is a young footman briefly seen playing cards with other servants before being sent to fetch a fowl. The small episode places him among the household’s working rhythms, but Tolstoy provides no further history, relationships, or personal transformation.
Description
Nikita is identified as a young footman, with no further physical features specified. He can be shown in neat, period-appropriate household livery, suited to a servant in an early nineteenth-century Russian home. His height, build, complexion, hair, eyes, and facial features remain unspecified, so his appearance should be kept unembellished.
Story so far
BOOK 1War and Peace
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