A classic problem with english translations of War and Peace is what to do about the languages? The main characters start out the novel speaking french with each other and russian with the servants (similar to the role of english for elite households in 2020 india?).
The costume drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-fkZ-0Blw claims that in the seventeenth century, the aristocracy would've been familiar with enough with their tenants' dances (indeed, preferring them to french court customs) to perform them themselves, but no matter what the historical accuracy of that portrayal, Tolstoy's take on the nineteenth century situation was different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace#Language .
The costume drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-fkZ-0Blw claims that in the seventeenth century, the aristocracy would've been familiar with enough with their tenants' dances (indeed, preferring them to french court customs) to perform them themselves, but no matter what the historical accuracy of that portrayal, Tolstoy's take on the nineteenth century situation was different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace#Language .
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Война_и_мир_(Толстой)/Том_I/Ч...