Gennady Myasnikov won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for what film adaptation of an 1869 novel of the same name?
War and Peace (film series) War and Peace (Russian: "Война и мир" , trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1966-67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace". The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
Masons (novel) Masons (Russian: Масоны ) is a novel by Alexey Pisemsky started in the late 1878 and first published in 1880 in "Ogonyok" magazine (Nos. 1-6, 8-43). Pisemsky who regarded the Freemasonry as a progressive force in Russia of the 1820s and 1830s based the narrative upon his personal childhood memories of the people he knew (among them his uncle Yury Bartenev) who belonged to the lodge.