Living Pictures - "War and Peace" (Russian: Zhiviye kartiny Voyna i Mir, Живые картины - Война и мир) is a Russian-language musical composed by Russian film music composer Alexey Rybnikov based upon the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy.
It begins with the well-known theme "I believe you" («Я тебе, конечно, верю») from the children's sci-fi movie "Great Space Journey" (ru:Большое космическое путешествие) then an "incendiary" flamenco.
The show continues with stylized duet in the style of French chanson, and love songs based on poems by Anna Akhmatova.
The full title of the unproduced musical is Living pictures of the time of Alexander I and Napoleon Bonaparte after the novel "War and Peace" by Count Leo Tolstoy.
Living pictures (Zhiviye kartiny, Живые картины) is the usual term for tableaux vivants in Russian.