Which Russian family in War and Peace includes Prince Andrei?

The Russian family in War and Peace that includes Prince Andrei is the Bolkonsky family, or the Bolkonskys.

Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is one of Tolstoy’s central characters. He is the son of the stern and eccentric Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky and the brother of the deeply religious Princess Maria. Andrei’s skepticism, ambition, disillusionment with military glory, and changing ideas about love and moral purpose form one of the novel’s major character arcs.

The Bolkonskys are one of several aristocratic families whose lives intersect during the Napoleonic Wars. The Rostovs are warmer and more emotionally spontaneous, the Kuragins are associated with fashionable society and manipulation, and the Drubetskoys are represented by figures such as the ambitious Boris.

A common mix-up is to identify Andrei with the Rostovs because he becomes closely connected to Natasha Rostova. Their relationship is important, but Natasha belongs to the Rostov family, not the Bolkonskys.