After The - Ball

To Ivan’s horror, the officer overseeing the brutal, bloody beating is the same Colonel from the ball. The Colonel, who had just been the epitome of refined high society, now ruthlessly enforces the torture, even striking a soldier for not hitting the prisoner hard enough. Key Themes

A modern fashion-themed retelling of Cinderella, where a young designer must go undercover to save her family business.

Tolstoy highlights the chilling gap between a person’s public "polite" persona and their capacity for state-sanctioned cruelty.

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Unable to sleep from joy, Ivan wanders out into the early morning fog. He happens upon a military punishment in progress: a Tatar soldier is being forced to "run the gauntlet" for desertion.