Trivia for the 1956, 1966, 1972, 2007, and 2016 adaptations go on their respective pages.
- California Doubling: The 1977 miniseries was shot in Yugoslavia, not the setting of Russia.
- Creator Backlash: Tolstoy came to criticize War and Peace for its length and the times he stopped the plot to show how "great" men of history count for very little and are but figureheads of forces beyond their control. Though he still stood by his views, Tolstoy thought War and Peace would be better without these tangents.
- Fake Nationality: Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte is played by English David Swift in the 1977 miniseries.
- Working Title:
- Some sources say Tolstoy used "All's Well That Ends Well".
- The first installment, when the book was published in serialized form, was titled "The Year 1805".
- Unlike what was said in Seinfeld, however, "War" was never considered as a title for the book, much less did it change Tolstoy's mistress didn't like it or inspire the title for the song.
Miscellaneous Trivia
- Rubles, as the unit of currency, come up quite often in the book. In 1805 — the year the opening events in the book take place — a ruble was a silver coin roughly the size of a half dollar, with a net silver content of 18 grams (0.58 Troy ounces). That would make it worth a little under US$10 in 2018 money. Compare this with the modern Russian ruble, which is worth one-and-a-half cents.
