War and Peace · Character
Countess Natálya Rostóva
The Rostóv matriarch whose fierce, anxious love holds a chaotic Moscow household together, even as her children's choices strain her nerves and her finances.
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Also known as Countess Natálya Ilyníchna Rostóva, Natálya Rostóva, Mamma
First appearance: vii
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She presides over the Rostóv family's warm, improvident world of name days, sleigh rides, and mounting debts, where her tenderness and her social vanity pull in opposite directions. Her devotion to her children is…
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