The first name of Count Bezukhov in War and Peace is Pierre. His full Russian name is Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov, although the novel usually presents him to English-speaking readers by the French form Pierre.
Pierre is one of the novel’s central characters. At the beginning, he is an awkward, idealistic young man who has returned to Russia after being educated abroad. He is the illegitimate son of the wealthy Count Kirill Bezukhov, but an unexpected inheritance makes Pierre the new Count Bezukhov and one of the richest men in the Russian Empire.
His inheritance draws him into aristocratic society and contributes to his unhappy first marriage to Hélène Kuragina. Pierre then undergoes a long spiritual and philosophical journey, shaped by war, captivity, friendship, and his relationship with Natasha Rostova. Readers may encounter the name Pyotr in translations or discussions of the original Russian, but Pierre is the established familiar form used for this character. Andrei and Nikolai are important characters too, but they are not Count Bezukhov.