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War and Peace, a novel by Leo Tolstoy, is a picture of Russian life set against a background of Napoleon’s invasion. It is one of the ………………… novels of world literature.

GREAT

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Considerable parts of the book ………………… to Tolstoy’s theory of history.

DEVOTE

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However, the greatness of War and Peace ………………… in its philosophy or in any contribution to the facts or theory of history. It depends on the building of a vast panorama of the whole society out of innumerable minute realistic details.

NOT LIE

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What do you know about Moscow? It ………………… the capital of Russia for a long time. However, when it was first mentioned in historical records around 1147, it was nothing more than a tiny town of little importance.

BE

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Muscovites today consider Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy their city’s founding father, but it was only recorded that he dined with friends in the town of “Moskov,” ………………… after the local Moscow River.

NAME

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It remains unclear exactly when this town was established. A small fortress was built on Borovitsky Hill by Dolgorukiy’s son, Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky; it was the first in a long succession of structures that eventually became the Moscow Kremlin. Moscow remained a small town while the nearby city of Vladimir ………………… in prominence and overtook Kiev, the old capital, in importance.

RISE