Which battle is a profound event in the Tolstoy novel " War and Peace " ?
Dmitry Pisarev in his unfinished article " Russian Gentry of Old " ( Staroye barstvo , " Otechestvennye Zapiski " , # 2 , 1868 ) while praising Tolstoy 's realism in portraying members of high society , still was unhappy with the way the author , as he saw it , ' idealized ' the old nobility , expressing " unconscious and quite natural tenderness towards " the Russian dvoryanstvo .