"Wintry weather was already setting in...", (War and Peace)

The year is 1810, young Nikolai Rostov reluctantly resigns his comfortable and promising career in the Russian army returning to Moscow to tend his family’s faltering  business interests. With neither the desire nor inclination to running the business, Nikolai instead devotes himself in pursuit of his real passion…hunting. Tolstoi uses the following passage, in War and Peace, to describe the terrain that Nikolai will enter and observe when he begins the hunt.

"Wintry weather was already setting in; morning frosts hardened the earth saturated by the autumn rains.Already the grass was full of tufts and stood out bright green against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale yellow stubble of the spring sowing and the russet lines of buckwheat. The uplands and copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands amid black fields and stubble, had turned into golden and lurid crimson islands among the green winter corn. The hares had already half changed their summer coats, the fox-cubs were beginning to scatter, and the young wolves were bigger than dogs. It was the best time of the year for hunting.…..when young Rostov, in his dressing gown looked out of the window, he saw an unsurpassable morning for hunting: the sky seemed to be dissolving and sinking to the earth without a breath of wind. The only movement in the air was the soft downward drift of microscopic beads of drizzling mist. The bare twigs in the garden were hung with transparent drops which dripped down on to the freshly fallen leaves. The earth in the kitchen-garden gleamed wet and black like the heart of a poppy, and within a short distance melted into the damp grey shroud of fog."

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