"Round up the usual suspects". What is to become of Rostov's friends? Out of character, Rostov appears indifferent to the ensuing imprisonment/torture. What good is gold when their lives are at stake? What good it gold when all it will do is incriminate? "Round up the usual suspects"

A gentle unfolding of a story, too fantastical in its account of time and country. But it was a fiction, perhaps it'd be too much to ask for historical accuracy. Nonetheless, my mind, unbidden, will hop-skip-and-jump to a reality that is not so gentle in its unfolding for those left behind.