Senior Seminar

Here are some links pertinent to your reading of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

Tolstoy: Russian / English / Italian version of War and Peace
Minard's famous graphic chart of Napolean's Invasion and Retreat in Russia
Short story of Tolstoy similar to that told by Platon Karataev in War & Peace Book 14 ch. 13

Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov (English)
Brothers Karamazov(Russian): Pt. I Pt. II Pt. III Pt. IV

Related material of interest:
"The Translation Wars" by David Remnick, a New Yorker article on translating Russian texts