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You're absolutely right – I actually read those in my mother tongue. I'm probably gonna read some of Leo Tolstoy next. Thanks for the recommendations!
War and Peace was written primarily in Russian, but a lot of the dialog was written in French since much of the aristocracy at the time in Russia spoke French. I read a version that translated the Russian to English, but left the French as is, which was strange.
That's just something you might need to keep in mind when figuring out which version to read.