Also uniquely you can learn some french if you read the pevear translation, 2% is in french, lots of good dialogue and some written memos/letters, and the english translation footnoted at the bottom of the page.
When I was mining STEEM in april, I made account names from a text file of War and Peace because each mining instance needed a unique name. I think I used a script to pick words out that were greater than 10 characters. and satisfied some other checks. I created at least 50 accounts this way. This happens to be one of the mined accounts :).
What a nice coincidence. I'm currently living in France so my French is reasonable but thanks for the tip. I've read other Pevear translations and they're first class. Tricky to get a hard copy of War and Peace in Russian so I've got a pdf instead. That'll do me for the moment...