<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Lisa Bolkonskaya </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> Nikolay </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Russian </Td> </Tr> <P> Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Болконский) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace . He is the son of famed Russian general Nikolai Bolkonsky, who raises Andrei and his sister Maria Bolkonskaya on a remote estate . Andrei is best friends with Pierre Bezukhov . He is based on Tolstoy's cousin Prince Sergey Volkonsky, who was a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and later a Decembrist . </P>

What happened to andrei in war and peace