Abstract
The article analyses special features in the functioning of the category “Event” in Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”. Eventivity is considered both at the level of “mental” (related to the personal experiences of the characters) and “historical”: in both cases the narrator uses the concepts of “chance”, “causality” and “necessity”, the meaning of which varies depending on the context and, importantly, are realised in the poetics of the novel narrative. In order to analyze the paradoxical nature of the event in War and Peace, the concept of “contingency” is used to take into account the complex relationship between “freedom” and “necessity” in the structure of the novel.
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