Natasha and Pierre have four children by the end of War and Peace. After Natasha’s relationship with Andrei Bolkonsky ends tragically, she eventually reunites with Pierre Bezukhov, and the two marry. Tolstoy’s epilogue presents Natasha as the mother of four: Masha, Lisa, Petya, and an unnamed daughter.
This detail appears in the novel’s closing family portrait, where the characters’ lives are shown after the Napoleonic Wars. Natasha, who begins the story as a lively thirteen-year-old, has become a married woman and devoted mother. Her transformation is one of the novel’s most striking character arcs.
Readers sometimes confuse Natasha’s children with the children of other major families in the novel, especially the Rostovs’ wider household. The answer refers specifically to Natasha and Pierre together, not to Natasha’s siblings or Pierre’s earlier marriage to Hélène. The four children are part of Tolstoy’s final glimpse of domestic life after years of war, loss, and political upheaval.