War and Peace — Chronicle
Ordered by year. Years come from what the text itself states — taken as written, never inferred; events with no stated year carry forward from the last anchor, marked “c.”. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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1291 events · 1087 dated directly by the text · the rest carried forward
1805 (253 events)
Chapters 1–16
Ch. 1 · this very evening
Anna Pávlovna Schérer Prince Vasíli Anatole Kurágin Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
I’ll speak to Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the thing can be arranged.
Ch. 2 · 📍 [[Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room]]
and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions.
Ch. 2 · 📍 [[Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room]] · just returned from abroad
The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
Ch. 3 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Duc d'Enghien Mademoiselle George Napoleon
The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte
Ch. 3 · subsequently
The latter spared him, and this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death.
Ch. 4
“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....”
Ch. 4
Prince Vasíli Borís Drubetskóy Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?”
Ch. 4
Prince Vasíli Borís Drubetskóy Kutúzov
“No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered since his appointment as Commander in Chief.”
Ch. 4 · tomorrow
Prince Vasíli Borís Drubetskóy Emperor
“Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?” “Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.”
Ch. 6
Anna Pávlovna Lise Anatole Kurágin
Anna Pávlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law.
Ch. 7 · Today
Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations must be broken off
Ch. 8
My wife,” continued Prince Andrew, “is an excellent woman, one of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what would I not give now to be unmarried!
Ch. 8
“What am I? An illegitimate son!” He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great effort to say this.
Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Horse Guards’ barracks]] · past one o’clock
Pierre Prince Andrew Anatole Kurágin
He went to Kurágin’s.
Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Horse Guards’ barracks]] · that evening
Dólokhov Stevens Anatole Kurágin Pierre
Dólokhov was standing on the window sill, with a pale but radiant face. “It’s empty.” He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dólokhov jumped down.
Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Horse Guards’ barracks]] · that evening
Pierre Anatole Kurágin Dólokhov
They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who touched him was sent flying.
Ch. 10
The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov Guards with the rank of cornet.
Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent back to Moscow.
Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.
Ch. 12
he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service
Ch. 13 · 📍 [[conservatory]]
Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing back her hair, kissed him full on the lips.
Ch. 14
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Borís Drubetskóy Prince Vasíli
To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, and put the matter before the Emperor
Ch. 14
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Borís Drubetskóy Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov.
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house]] · today
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
his excellency was worse today
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house]] · until evening
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Prince Vasíli
Let us wait until evening. The doctors are expecting a crisis.
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house]]
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
occupying the position she had conquered, settled down in an armchair
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house]] · meanwhile
go to Pierre meanwhile and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation
Ch. 16 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and sent to Moscow.
Ch. 16 · Next day
Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all.”
Ch. 16
Borís Drubetskóy Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Pierre
But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.”
Ch. 16
Pierre, in order to make Borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles into Borís’ eyes.
Chapters 17–28
Ch. 17
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so ill!
Ch. 17
Countess Rostóva Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Borís Drubetskóy
This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.
Ch. 18 · 📍 [[drawing room]]
Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova Natásha
She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, having given them to the rosy Natásha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre.
Ch. 19 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · that day
The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief.
Ch. 20 · in a week’s time
Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have come... he told me himself...
Ch. 20
Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma
Ch. 20
But Nicholas is my cousin... one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it can’t be done.
Ch. 21 · While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
Count Bezúkhov had a sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible.
Ch. 21
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre
The count, pointing to his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.”
Ch. 21 · last winter
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre Catherine Semënovna
last winter the count made a will by which he left all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.
Ch. 21
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre
that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew of it.
Ch. 21
Catherine Semënovna Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” said the princess, ignoring his question.
Ch. 21 · Last winter
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this vile, infamous paper
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[Count Bezúkhov’s house]]
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Pierre Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
This young man is the count’s son
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[Count Bezúkhov’s house]] · tonight
A deference such as he had never before received was shown him.
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[Count Bezúkhov’s house]] · about half an hour ago
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
He had another stroke about half an hour ago.
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[Count Bezúkhov’s house]]
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Pierre Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet
Ch. 23
Lorrain Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service continued.
Ch. 23
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.
Ch. 23
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
Anna Mikháylovna, with an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave him a taper.
Ch. 23
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre
Pierre, carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand.
Ch. 23
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre
The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. He sighed.
Ch. 24 · In the morning
Pierre Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command of an immense fortune.
Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · ever since
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Emperor Paul
ever since the Emperor Paul had exiled him to his country estate
Ch. 25
young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain inactive and has left the university to join the army
Ch. 25
The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance.
Ch. 25
Pierre old Count Bezúkhov Prince Vasíli
Monsieur Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and possessor of the finest fortune in Russia.
Ch. 25 · a while ago
Princess Mary Anatole Kurágin Prince Vasíli
a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ choice has fallen.
Ch. 26 · tomorrow
“So you are really going to the war, Andrew?” she said sighing. Lise sighed too. “Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother.
Ch. 26
“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is pregnant,” said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his father’s face with an eager and respectful look.
Ch. 26
and that there was a suitor for Mary, a real one, but that they would talk of that later.
Ch. 28
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Prince Andrew
I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; hand them to the Emperor after my death.
Ch. 28 · next evening
Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study door opened quickly
Chapters 29–40
Ch. 29
Kutúzov Archduke Ferdinand Mack
Kutúzov, not considering this junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops arrived from Russia.
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Braunau]] · In half an hour
he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied.
Ch. 30
You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the ranks in this regiment.
Ch. 31 · 📍 [[Ulm]]
General Mack Archduke Ferdinand
The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct.
Ch. 31 · 📍 [[Vienna]]
From Vienna Kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew’s father.
Ch. 31
make a neat memorandum in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.
Ch. 31 · Within half an hour
Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy.
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[Salzeneck]] · On October 11
Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a damned fool!
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[Salzeneck]] · that morning
Denísov Nicholas Rostóv Lavrúshka
Denísov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there.
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[the inn]] · that day
Nicholas Rostóv Telyánin Denísov
“Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it...” He threw it on the table.
Ch. 33 · 📍 [[Denísov’s quarters]] · That same evening
Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me,” said Rostóv in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God I can’t, do what you will!
Ch. 33 · 📍 [[the regiment]]
I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, Mack. An Austrian general complained of me.
Ch. 33 · next day
Denísov Nicholas Rostóv Zherkóv
The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by Zherkóv. They were under orders to advance next day.
Ch. 34 · 📍 [[Vienna]]
Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz).
Ch. 34 · 📍 [[Enns]] · On October 23
[[Russiantroops]]
On October 23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns.
Ch. 34 · 📍 [[Enns]]
and tell the hussars that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.
Ch. 35
Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvítski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... something big, that splashed into the water.
Ch. 35
The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry.
Ch. 35
Beside the bridge Nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, and having done this he rode back.
Ch. 35
Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge on his side of it.
Ch. 36
On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron.
Ch. 36
The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without having lost a single man.
Ch. 36
Karl Bogdánich Schubert Denísov
Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to the bridge.
Ch. 36
The hussars had succeeded in setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them
Ch. 36
the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over.
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Danube]]
Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded by Kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Danube]] · On the twenty-eighth of October
On the twenty-eighth of October Kutúzov with his army crossed to the left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time with the river between himself and the main body of the French.
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Krems]] · during the battle
Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian General Schmidt, who was killed in the action.
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Brünn]] · on the night of the battle
As a mark of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was threatened by the French) but at Brünn.
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Brünn]] · tomorrow
His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade.
Ch. 38 · 📍 [[Vienna]]
Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.
Ch. 38 · 📍 [[Schönbrunn]]
Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.
Ch. 39 · 📍 [[Brünn]] · Next day
Prince Andrew Bilíbin Prince Hippolyte
These gentlemen received Prince Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many.
Ch. 40
The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him.
Ch. 40 · 📍 [[Thabor Bridge]] · Next day, which was yesterday
Murat Lannes Belliard Prince Auersperg von Mautern
The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!
Ch. 40 · 📍 [[Thabor Bridge]]
Murat Lannes Prince Auersperg von Mautern
Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and orders the sergeant to be arrested.
Ch. 40 · at once
And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to his room.
Chapters 41–49
Ch. 41 · That same night
That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems.
Ch. 41
“Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?” said Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the soldier. “I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!” “Let them pass, I tell you!” repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his lips. “And who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. This expression evidently pleased him. “That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice from behind. Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised his riding whip. “Kind...ly let—them—pass!” The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. “It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s this disorder,” he muttered. “Do as you like.”
Ch. 41
“Immediately, Prince,” said Kozlóvski. “Dispositions for Bagratión.” “What about capitulation?” “Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.”
Ch. 41
“Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski. “Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.” “Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!” They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence.
Ch. 42 · The night he received the news
The night he received the news, Kutúzov sent Bagratión’s vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim to the Vienna-Znaim road.
Ch. 42 · 📍 [[Hollabrünn]] · a few hours ahead of the French
Bagratión came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrünn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrünn from Vienna.
Ch. 42 · 📍 [[Hollabrünn]]
Meeting Bagratión’s weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutúzov’s whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving.
Ch. 42 · 📍 [[Hollabrünn]]
Count Nostitz Murat Prince Bagratión
Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division exposed.
Ch. 42 · On receiving the news
On receiving the news he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation
Ch. 42
Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim escape
Ch. 43 · 📍 [[Grunth]] · Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon
Prince Andrew Prince Bagratión
Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also very important.”
Ch. 44
Prince Andrew took out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to Bagratión.
Ch. 44
He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth.
Ch. 45 · 📍 [[Schön Grabern]]
No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the village.
Ch. 45
Prince Bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to reinforce the right flank.
Ch. 45
news that immense masses of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers.
Ch. 45 · half an hour later
But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground
Ch. 45
Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command ... that he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear
Ch. 46
He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men.
Ch. 46
Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.
Ch. 46
Bagratión did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room for the two approaching battalions.
Ch. 46
“Forward, with God!” said Bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, turning for a moment to the front line
Ch. 46
But at the moment the first report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!”
Ch. 47
But our left—which consisted of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes and was thrown into confusion.
Ch. 47
Bagratión had sent Zherkóv to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately.
Ch. 47
It was no longer possible for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through for themselves.
Ch. 47
“Fo’ward, with God, lads!” rang out Denísov’s voice. “At a twot fo’ward!”
Ch. 47
There was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is killed.” Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his rider’s leg.
Ch. 47
He seized his pistol and, instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his might toward the bushes.
Ch. 47
Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters.
Ch. 48
Your excellency, here are two trophies,” said Dólokhov, pointing to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I stopped the company.
Ch. 48 · Twice
Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated guns on the hillock.
Ch. 48 · A moment later
It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space where Túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought of being afraid roused him again. “I cannot be afraid,” thought he, and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their positions and withdrawn in his presence.
Ch. 49
The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly.
Ch. 49
Private Dólokhov, who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my presence and particularly distinguished himself.
Ch. 49
Prince Bagratión Túshin Prince Andrew
we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company
Ch. 49 · Next day
Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagratión’s detachment was reunited to Kutúzov’s army.
Chapters 50–60
Ch. 50
Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov Pierre
Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man
Ch. 50 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Ch. 50 · 📍 [[Ryazán estate]]
By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, which the prince had retained for himself.
Ch. 51
“Thank God!” said Prince Vasíli. “My wife has told me everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his daughter.)—“My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased.”
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · in November, 1805
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Prince Vasíli Anatole Kurágin
Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him a visit.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · that evening
Prince Vasíli Anatole Kurágin Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
Prince Vasíli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · On the day of Prince Vasíli’s arrival
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Alpátych
and lifting his stick he swung it and would have hit Alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively avoided the blow.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · After dinner
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Alpátych
“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · before going down
Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne
“Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to me,” answered a voice struggling with tears.
Ch. 53 · tomorrow
Prince Vasíli Anatole Kurágin Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Princess Mary
As soon as they were alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old prince.
Ch. 53 · tomorrow
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Princess Mary Anatole Kurágin
I will ask her tomorrow in your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on.
Ch. 53 · after tea
Anatole Kurágin Mademoiselle Bourienne Princess Mary
Anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne’s little foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord.
Ch. 54 · last night
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Prince Vasíli Anatole Kurágin Princess Mary
Last night a proposition was made me on your account and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.
Ch. 54
Princess Mary Anatole Kurágin Mademoiselle Bourienne
She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her.
Ch. 54 · An hour later
Princess Mary Anatole Kurágin Prince Vasíli
Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.
Ch. 55 · midwinter
Not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s handwriting.
Ch. 55
After a brief description of the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s hands asking for their blessing
Ch. 55
Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya Nicholas Rostóv
Anna Mikháylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son.
Ch. 55
Borís Drubetskóy Nicholas Rostóv
And so it was decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas.
Ch. 56 · just
Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round
Ch. 56 · 📍 [[Olmütz]] · recently
visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses.
Ch. 56 · during the campaign
Berg, who had obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy
Ch. 56 · That day
That day Nicholas Rostóv received a letter from Borís, telling him that the Ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for him.
Ch. 56
In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation to Bagratión which the old countess at Anna Mikháylovna’s advice had obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take it to its destination and make use of it.
Ch. 57 · The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís
Emperor Alexander Nicholas Rostóv
The two Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men.
Ch. 57
Emperor Alexander Nicholas Rostóv
Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased from Denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, alone and in full view of the Emperor.
Ch. 58 · 📍 [[Olmütz]] · That same day
Kutúzov Prince Schwartzenberg Weyrother Prince Dolgorúkov Napoleon
At that council, contrary to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte.
Ch. 58 · Next day
Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of Austerlitz, Borís was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorúkov again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment.
Ch. 59 · 📍 [[Wischau]] · At dawn on the sixteenth of November
Prince Bagratión Denísov Nicholas Rostóv
The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French squadron.
Ch. 59
The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it.
Ch. 59 · 📍 [[Wischau]] · at twelve o’clock
Alexander the First Czartorýski
Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was riding away, say to Czartorýski: “What a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!”
Ch. 59 · 📍 [[Wischau]] · The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau
Alexander the First Prince Bagratión Nicholas Rostóv
The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka.
Ch. 60 · 📍 [[Wischau]] · The next day
The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell.
Ch. 60 · 📍 [[Wischau]] · At midday
Savary Emperor Alexander Dolgorúkov Napoleon
It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince Dolgorúkov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by a real desire for peace.
Ch. 60 · On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November
On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.
Ch. 60 · 📍 [[Austerlitz]]
Emperor Alexander Napoleon Kutúzov
Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.
Ch. 60 · tomorrow
Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might have been as good as Weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that Weyrother’s had already been approved.
Ch. 60 · tomorrow’s battle
Kutúzov Emperor Alexander Tolstóy
I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!
Chapters 61–118
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[Ostralitz]] · Shortly after nine o’clock that evening
Weyrother Kutúzov Count Langeron Milorádovich Dohktúrov Prince Andrew
Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on which an enormous map of the environs of Brünn was spread out.
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[Ostralitz]] · past midnight
Kutúzov Weyrother Prince Andrew Count Langeron Milorádovich
Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “You have heard them, and we shall all do our duty.
Ch. 62
Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction from which the shouting came.
Ch. 62 · tomorrow
Nicholas Rostóv Prince Bagratión
“The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was in the evening,” reported Rostóv
Ch. 62 · Tomorrow
Nicholas Rostóv Prince Bagratión
“Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.”
Ch. 63 · 📍 [[Goldbach Stream]] · After an hour’s delay
After an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream began. Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutúzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights.
Ch. 63 · 📍 [[Pratzen Heights]] · It was nine o’clock in the morning
From information he had received the evening before, from the sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked.
Ch. 63 · 📍 [[Pratzen Heights]] · When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog
When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by Russian troops moving down the valley to their left.
Ch. 64 · 📍 [[Pratzen]] · that morning
Having given orders in the commander in chief’s name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back.
Ch. 64 · 📍 [[Pratzen]] · that morning
Emperor Alexander Kutúzov Milorádovich
“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but submissive general. He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of the column, gave him the order to advance.
Ch. 64 · 📍 [[Pratzen]] · that morning
The Ápsheron men, excited by the Tsar’s presence, passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk pace.
Ch. 65 · suddenly and unexpectedly
The French were supposed to be a mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in front of us.
Ch. 65 · at that very instant
And at this as if at a command, everyone began to run.
Ch. 65 · After this volley
The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing at him.
Ch. 65 · before he had finished speaking
Prince Andrew, feeling tears of shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to the standard.
Ch. 65
It seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head with the full swing of a bludgeon.
Ch. 66 · at nine o’clock
Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, Prince Bagratión proposed to Dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the commander in chief.
Ch. 66 · that morning
Prince Bagratión Nicholas Rostóv
Bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, and the boyish face of Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was the first to catch his eye. He sent him.
Ch. 66
This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that amazed the French themselves. Rostóv was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge.
Ch. 66 · 📍 [[village of Pratzen]] · later
Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing at one another.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Hosjeradek]]
Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle was lost.
Ch. 67
Emperor Alexander Nicholas Rostóv
Rostóv was happy in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were false.
Ch. 67
Nicholas Rostóv Emperor Alexander Dolgorúkov
and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar
Ch. 67
From one of the drivers he learned that Kutúzov’s staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Augesd Dam]] · After five o’clock
In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops.
Ch. 68 · 📍 [[Pratzen Heights]]
On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.
Ch. 68 · 📍 [[Pratzen Heights]]
“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and carry him to the dressing station.”
Ch. 68 · late in the day
He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital.
Ch. 68
Napoleon Prince Repnín Lieutenant Sukhtélen Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor’s eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his attention.
Ch. 68
Napoleon Prince Repnín Lieutenant Sukhtélen Prince Andrew Larrey
“Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds.
Ch. 68
the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform.
Ch. 68 · Toward morning
“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not recover.”
Ch. 68 · Toward morning
And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of the inhabitants of the district.
Ch. 99
But in spite of all this, the soldiers of Denísov’s squadron fed chiefly on “Máshka’s sweet root,” because it was the second week that the last of the biscuits were being doled out at the rate of half a pound a man and the last potatoes received had sprouted and frozen.
Ch. 118 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · When the Rostóvs came to Petersburg
When the Rostóvs came to Petersburg Borís called on them.
Chapters 130–178
Ch. 130 · On the eve of his departure from Petersburg
Do you know I have entrusted him with our secret?
Ch. 130 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · On the eve of his departure from Petersburg
On the eve of his departure from Petersburg Prince Andrew brought with him Pierre, who had not been to the Rostóvs’ once since the ball.
Ch. 178
Prince Peter Mikháylovich Volkónski General Armfeldt Count Toll Marquis Paulucci Pfuel Wolzogen Michaud
The discussions continued a long time, and the longer they lasted the more heated became the disputes, culminating in shouts and personalities, and the less was it possible to arrive at any general conclusion from all that had been said.
1806 (88 events)
Chapters 69–79
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Early in the year 1806
Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him as far as Moscow and to stay with him there.
Ch. 69
She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears.
Ch. 69
Natásha flared up. “I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell him so when I see him!”
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On his return to Moscow from the army
On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling Nikólenka;
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow
During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he did not draw closer to Sónya, but rather drifted away from her.
Ch. 70 · now
He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís is now on the staff.”
Ch. 70 · now
“Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here and that daredevil after her!”
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[English Club]] · the third of March
Count Ilyá Rostóv Prince Bagratión
Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to dinner.
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
Valúev was confidentially telling that Uvárov had been sent from Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz.
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[English Club]]
Prince Bagratión Count Ilyá Rostóv
Count Ilyá, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagratión.
Ch. 72 · after dinner
Nicholas Rostóv Dólokhov Nesvítski
Despite Denísov’s request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostóv agreed to be Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for the duel with Nesvítski, Bezúkhov’s second.
Ch. 72 · 📍 [[Sokólniki forest]] · Next day, at eight in the morning
Pierre Nesvítski Dólokhov Denísov Nicholas Rostóv
When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre.
Ch. 73 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · on entering Moscow
“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears.
Ch. 73 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · When he had become a little quieter
to his great surprise learned that Dólokhov the brawler, Dólokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.
Ch. 75 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz
A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz came a letter from Kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had befallen his son.
Ch. 75 · within a few days
She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected within a few days.
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · the morning of the nineteenth March
Inform the prince that labor has begun,” said Mary Bogdánovna, giving the messenger a significant look.
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · night
the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the stairs and embraced his sister.
Ch. 77
Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, sobbing like a child.
Ch. 77
She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with its upper lip covered with tiny black hair.
Ch. 77 · Two hours later
Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s room. The old man already knew everything.
Ch. 77 · Three days later
Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss.
Ch. 77 · Another five days passed
Little Nicholas Prince Andrew Princess Mary
Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich was baptized.
Ch. 78 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of Moscow.
Ch. 78 · during his convalescence
Dólokhov recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his convalescence.
Ch. 78
Natásha’s prediction proved true. Dólokhov, who did not usually care for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon settled. He came because of Sónya. And Sónya, though she would never have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov appeared.
Ch. 78 · after Christmas
Nicholas would not hear of remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment.
Ch. 79 · 📍 [[Rostóvs’ house]] · On the third day after Christmas
He has proposed to Sónya!” Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sónya of late, something seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas’ first feeling on hearing the news was one of anger with Sónya.... He tried to say, “That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began again. “And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a pause, “she told him she loved another.”
Ch. 79 · 📍 [[Rostóvs’ house]] · that same evening
If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...” Sónya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. “Nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. “No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....”
Chapters 80–98
Ch. 80 · That evening
That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sónya twirled about before she left home
Ch. 81 · tonight
and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper tonight to my friends—come to the English Hotel.
Ch. 81 · 📍 [[English Hotel]]
The seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had lost more than he could pay.
Ch. 82 · Tomorrow
“Then when am I to have it?” “Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room.
Ch. 84
“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “I have lost a little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.”
Ch. 84 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Next day
Next day Rostóv saw Denísov off. He did not wish to stay another day in Moscow.
Ch. 84 · at last
having at last sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his receipt
Ch. 84 · 📍 [[Poland]] · at the end of November
he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland.
Ch. 86
Pierre Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev
“Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons,” said the stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.”
Ch. 86
Pierre Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev
at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, regeneration, and return to life.
Ch. 86 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
Pierre Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev Count Willarski
“You are going to Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four).
Ch. 86
He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how Freemasonry presented itself to him.
Ch. 87
“Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order,” he said, “and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood with profit.
Ch. 87
Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger.
Ch. 88 · 📍 [[Lodge]]
He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them.
Ch. 89
“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!” And he jumped up and opened the door for him.
Ch. 89 · A week later
A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his estates.
Ch. 90 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
And when after Pierre’s departure Hélène returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune.
Ch. 90 · 📍 [[Prussia]] · Toward the end of 1806
The novelty Anna Pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening was Borís Drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage.
Ch. 90
In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were completely altered.
Ch. 90 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · Toward the end of 1806
Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp
Ch. 91 · 📍 [[Potsdam]]
at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the sword of Frederick the Great.
Ch. 91 · on Tuesday
Hélène who had spoken very little all the evening again turned to Borís, asking him in a tone of caressing significant command to come to her on Tuesday.
Ch. 91 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · During that stay in Petersburg
During that stay in Petersburg, Borís became an intimate in the countess’ house.
Ch. 92 · In 1806
In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia.
Ch. 92 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · Soon after Prince Andrew’s return
old Prince Bolkónski Prince Andrew
Soon after Prince Andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a large estate, Boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills.
Ch. 92 · when the war recommenced
After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the recruitment so as to avoid active service.
Ch. 92 · 📍 [[Eylau]]
Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete victory over Buonaparte at Eylau.
Ch. 97 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
He orders these pilgrims to be driven away, but she receives them.
Ch. 98 · last spring
Princess Mary Prince Andrew Pierre
His health was better in the winter, but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure.
Chapters 99–104
Ch. 99 · When returning from his leave
When returning from his leave, Rostóv felt, for the first time, how close was the bond that united him to Denísov and the whole regiment.
Ch. 99
When he had reported himself to the commander of the regiment and had been reassigned to his former squadron
Ch. 103 · 📍 [[Tilsit]] · On the thirteenth of June
Napoleon—reaching the raft first—stepped quickly forward to meet Alexander and held out his hand to him, and how they both retired into the pavilion.
Ch. 104 · 📍 [[Tilsit]] · June 27
On that day, June 27, the preliminaries of peace were signed.
Ch. 104 · 📍 [[Tilsit]] · June 27
The Emperors exchanged decorations: Alexander received the Cross of the Legion of Honor and Napoleon the Order of St. Andrew of the First Degree
1807 (36 events)
Ch. 92 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · for four days
Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days.
Ch. 93 · 📍 [[Pultúsk]]
This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory
Ch. 93
General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up the command of the army to General Buxhöwden.
Ch. 93
the courier who carried the news of our victory at Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished
Ch. 93
The Orthodox begin looting, and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea.
Ch. 93
He was not dead, but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent.
Ch. 94 · 📍 [[Kiev province]] · Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood
He told them that steps would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates.
Ch. 94 · before the master arrived
Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.
Ch. 94 · In the spring of 1807
And so Pierre was delighted with his visit to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his “brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master.
Ch. 94
The steward promised to do all in his power to carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is to say, all that could be got out of them.
Ch. 95 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · next year
Well, you see, I’m building. I mean to settle here altogether next year....
Ch. 95 · After Austerlitz!
I have promised myself not to serve again in the active Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the Russian army!
Ch. 96 · In the evening
His meeting with Pierre formed an epoch in Prince Andrew’s life. Though outwardly he continued to live in the same old way, inwardly he began a new life.
Ch. 97 · 📍 [[Kolyázin]] · Just at Christmastime
When I was in Kiev, Crazy Cyril says to me (he’s one of God’s own and goes barefoot summer and winter), he says, ‘Why are you not going to the right place? Go to Kolyázin where a wonder-working icon of the Holy Mother of God has been revealed.’
Ch. 97
Pelagéya stopped doubtfully, but in Pierre’s face there was such a look of sincere penitence, and Prince Andrew glanced so meekly now at her and now at Pierre, that she was gradually reassured.
Ch. 98 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · during the two days of the young man’s visit
Pierre Prince Andrew Princess Mary Little Nicholas Michael Ivánovich Mademoiselle Bourienne
They were all fond of him already.
Ch. 99 · After his losses
After his losses, he had determined to pay back his debt to his parents in five years.
Ch. 99 · On one of his foraging expeditions
Rostóv brought them to his quarters, placed them in his own lodging, and kept them for some weeks while the old man was recovering.
Ch. 99
Rostóv took the joke as an insult, flared up, and said such unpleasant things to the officer that it was all Denísov could do to prevent a duel.
Ch. 100 · at noon
The adjutant told them that the affair was likely to take a very bad turn: that a court-martial had been appointed
Ch. 100 · on the first of May
on the first of May, Denísov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division
Ch. 100 · On the previous day
A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg. Perhaps at another time Denísov would not have left the regiment for so slight a wound, but now he took advantage of it to excuse himself from appearing at the staff and went into hospital.
Ch. 101 · after that an armistice was proclaimed
Rostóv, who felt his friend’s absence very much, having no news of him since he left and feeling very anxious about his wound and the progress of his affairs, took advantage of the armistice to get leave to visit Denísov in hospital.
Ch. 102 · Late in the evening
In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denísov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.
Ch. 103 · 📍 [[Tilsit]] · At the time of the meeting at Tilsit
As the Emperor’s suite was a very small one, it was a matter of great importance, for a man who valued his success in the service, to be at Tilsit on the occasion of this interview between the two Emperors, and having succeeded in this, Borís felt that henceforth his position was fully assured.
Ch. 104 · 📍 [[Tilsit]]
Hardly had Rostóv handed him the letter and finished explaining Denísov’s case
Ch. 104 · 📍 [[Tilsit]]
I cannot do it, General. I cannot, because the law is stronger than I
Ch. 192 · In the evening
“He’s worrying very much about the new building. He has been reading a little, but now”—Michael Ivánovich went on, lowering his voice—“now he’s at his desk, busy with his will, I expect.”
1808 (22 events)
Ch. 105 · 📍 [[the square]]
Napoleon said something to Alexander, and both Emperors dismounted and took each other’s hands.
Ch. 105 · 📍 [[the square]]
Emperor Alexander Prince Kozlóvski Lázarev Napoleon
Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lázarev’s breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there.
Ch. 105 · 📍 [[the square]]
Yes, but what luck for Lázarev! Twelve hundred francs’ pension for life.
Ch. 105 · 📍 [[Erfurt]] · In 1808
In 1808 the Emperor Alexander went to Erfurt for a fresh interview with the Emperor Napoleon
Ch. 107
On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers—this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.
Ch. 107 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
A trained midwife was engaged for Boguchárovo at his expense, and a priest was paid to teach reading and writing to the children of the peasants and household serfs.
Ch. 109
“No, life is not over at thirty-one!” Prince Andrew suddenly decided finally and decisively.
Ch. 109 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · that autumn
On reaching home Prince Andrew decided to go to Petersburg that autumn and found all sorts of reasons for this decision. A whole series of sensible and logical considerations showing it to be essential for him to go to Petersburg, and even to re-enter the service, kept springing up in his mind.
Ch. 113 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · in 1808
Pierre on returning to Petersburg after visiting his estates had involuntarily found himself in a leading position among the Petersburg Freemasons.
Ch. 115 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
In this group Hélène, as soon as she had settled in Petersburg with her husband, took a very prominent place.
Ch. 115 · during these last two years
Hélène Bezúkhova’s reputation as a lovely and clever woman became so firmly established
Ch. 115
secretaries of the embassy, and even ambassadors, confided diplomatic secrets to her, so that in a way Hélène was a power.
Ch. 117 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · Soon after their arrival in Petersburg
Soon after their arrival in Petersburg Berg proposed to Véra and was accepted.
Ch. 121
On entering the ballroom the regular hum of voices, footsteps, and greetings deafened Natásha
Ch. 126 · One morning
I have just been to see the countess, your wife. Unfortunately she could not grant my request
Ch. 128 · 📍 [[Otrádnoe]] · that night
It seemed to Natásha that even at the time she first saw Prince Andrew at Otrádnoe she had fallen in love with him.
Ch. 130
No betrothal ceremony took place and Natásha’s engagement to Bolkónski was not announced; Prince Andrew insisted on that.
Ch. 131 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · During the winter
Before he left he had a long talk with his father about something, and Princess Mary noticed that before his departure they were dissatisfied with one another.
Ch. 132 · In the middle of the summer
He informed her of his engagement to Natásha Rostóva.
Ch. 132 · The next day
“Write and tell your brother to wait till I am dead.... It won’t be long—I shall soon set him free.”
1809 (55 events)
Chapters 106–128
Ch. 106 · In 1809
a Russian corps crossed the frontier to co-operate with our old enemy Bonaparte against our old ally the Emperor of Austria
Ch. 107 · 📍 [[Ryazán estates]] · In the spring of 1809
In the spring of 1809 he went to visit the Ryazán estates which had been inherited by his son, whose guardian he was.
Ch. 110 · 📍 [[Peterhof]] · That same August
That same August the Emperor was thrown from his calèche, injured his leg, and remained three weeks at Peterhof
Ch. 110 · 📍 [[Russia]] · At that time
Emperor Alexander Czartorýski Novosíltsev Kochubéy Strógonov Speránski
At that time the two famous decrees were being prepared that so agitated society—abolishing court ranks and introducing examinations to qualify for the grades of Collegiate Assessor and State Councilor—and not merely these but a whole state constitution, intended to change the existing order of government in Russia
Ch. 110 · Now
Speránski Arakchéev Czartorýski Novosíltsev Kochubéy Strógonov
Now all these men were replaced by Speránski on the civil side, and Arakchéev on the military.
Ch. 110 · On the appointed day
I have endorsed a resolution on your memorandum and sent it to the committee. I do not approve of it
Ch. 111 · The day after his interview with Count Arakchéev
Prince Andrew Count Kochubéy Speránski
When Kochubéy introduced Prince Andrew, Speránski slowly turned his eyes to Bolkónski with his customary smile and looked at him in silence.
Ch. 111 · on Wednesday
Prince Andrew Speránski Magnítski
If you will do me the honor of calling on me on Wednesday,” he added, “I will, after talking with Magnítski, let you know what may interest you, and shall also have the pleasure of a more detailed chat with you.
Ch. 112 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · A week later
A week later Prince Andrew was a member of the Committee on Army Regulations and—what he had not at all expected—was chairman of a section of the committee for the revision of the laws.
Ch. 113 · toward the end of the year
And so toward the end of the year he went abroad to be initiated into the higher secrets of the order.
Ch. 113 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · In the summer of 1809
In the summer of 1809 Pierre returned to Petersburg. Our Freemasons knew from correspondence with those abroad that Bezúkhov had obtained the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with him much that might conduce to the advantage of the Masonic cause in Russia.
Ch. 113 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
A solemn meeting of the lodge of the second degree was convened, at which Pierre promised to communicate to the Petersburg Brothers what he had to deliver to them from the highest leaders of their order.
Ch. 113 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · At that meeting
Parties were formed, some accusing Pierre of Illuminism, others supporting him.
Ch. 113 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · without waiting for the usual formalities
and without waiting for the usual formalities he left the lodge and went home.
Ch. 114 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · 17th November
On this ground Joseph Alexéevich condemned my speech and my whole activity, and in the depth of my soul I agreed with him.
Ch. 114 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · 17th November
Besides this he advised me for myself personally above all to keep a watch over myself, and to that end he gave me a notebook, the one I am now writing in and in which I will in future note down all my actions.
Ch. 116 · 24th November
By Joseph Alexéevich’s advice Pierre had entered the service of the state and served on one of the committees.
Ch. 116 · 7th December
That day I received a letter from my benefactor in which he wrote about “conjugal duties.”
Ch. 117 · A few days before the wedding
The conversation ended by the count, who wished to be generous and to avoid further importunity, saying that he would give a note of hand for eighty thousand rubles.
Ch. 118 · a few days later
Borís made up his mind to avoid meeting Natásha, but despite that resolution he called again a few days later and began calling often and spending whole days at the Rostóvs’.
Ch. 118 · every day
Borís Drubetskóy Hélène Natásha
He left off visiting Hélène and received reproachful notes from her every day, and yet he continued to spend whole days with the Rostóvs.
Ch. 119 · 📍 [[Rostóvs’]] · Next day
Next day the countess called Borís aside and had a talk with him, after which he ceased coming to the Rostóvs’.
Ch. 122
He asked her to waltz. That tremulous expression on Natásha’s face, prepared either for despair or rapture, suddenly brightened into a happy, grateful, childlike smile. “I have long been waiting for you,” that frightened happy little girl seemed to say by the smile that replaced the threatened tears, as she raised her hand to Prince Andrew’s shoulder. They were the second couple to enter the circle.
Ch. 123 · At that ball
Hélène had great success and was honored by the special attention of So-and-so,
Ch. 124 · that morning
He had just heard particulars of that morning’s sitting of the Council of State opened by the Emperor
Ch. 124 · 📍 [[Taurida Gardens]] · that evening
Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speránski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment.
Ch. 124 · 📍 [[Taurida Gardens]] · After dinner
Prince Andrew went up to Speránski and took his leave.
Ch. 124 · When he reached home
When he reached home Prince Andrew began thinking of his life in Petersburg during those last four months as if it were something new.
Ch. 124
his project of army reform, which had been accepted for consideration and which they were trying to pass over in silence simply because another, a very poor one, had already been prepared and submitted to the Emperor
Ch. 125
He decided that he must attend to his son’s education by finding a tutor and putting the boy in his charge, then he ought to retire from the service and go abroad, and see England, Switzerland and Italy.
Ch. 127
Véra Prince Andrew Borís Drubetskóy Natásha
“I expect he has told you of his childish love for Natásha?”
Ch. 128 · At that very time
At that very time Prince Andrew was sitting with Pierre and telling him of his love for Natásha and his firm resolve to make her his wife.
Ch. 128
he would either make his father consent to this marriage and love her, or would do without his consent
Chapters 129–340
Ch. 129
Prince Andrew Little Nicholas Natásha
I beg you to put it off for a year: go abroad, take a cure, look out as you wanted to for a German tutor for Prince Nicholas.
Ch. 129
Prince Andrew [[Natáša]]
I ask you to make me happy in a year, but you are free: our engagement shall remain a secret
Ch. 129
Prince Andrew [[Natáša]]
The father and mother came into the room and gave the betrothed couple their blessing.
Ch. 130
If after six months she felt that she did not love him she would have full right to reject him.
Ch. 130 · when he was gone
Nor did she cry when he was gone; but for several days she sat in her room dry-eyed, taking no interest in anything
Ch. 130 · a fortnight after his departure
But a fortnight after his departure, to the surprise of those around her, she recovered from her mental sickness just as suddenly and became her old self again, but with a change in her moral physiognomy
Ch. 131 · During that year after his son’s departure
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski’s health and temper became much worse.
Ch. 131 · Five years have passed since then
Lise Prince Andrew Princess Mary
Five years have passed since then, and already I, with my petty understanding, begin to see clearly why she had to die
Ch. 131
I always wonder at the way rumors fly from Petersburg to Moscow, especially such false ones as that you write about—I mean the report of my brother’s betrothal to the little Rostóva.
Ch. 132
Under guise of a present for the pilgrims, Princess Mary prepared a pilgrim’s complete costume for herself: a coarse smock, bast shoes, a rough coat, and a black kerchief.
Ch. 256 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · It was two o’clock in the afternoon
The French had already entered Moscow.
Ch. 340 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached. The Napoleonic government and army are destroyed.
1810 (33 events)
Ch. 133 · In 1810
In 1810 he received letters from his parents, in which they told him of Natásha’s engagement to Bolkónski, and that the wedding would be in a year’s time because the old prince made difficulties.
Ch. 133 · in the spring of that year
But in the spring of that year, he received a letter from his mother, written without his father’s knowledge, and that letter persuaded him to return.
Ch. 133
he informed Lavrúshka (Denísov’s servant who had remained with him) and his comrades who turned up in the evening that he was applying for leave and was going home.
Ch. 133 · 📍 [[Otrádnoe]] · on arriving
At the last post station before Otrádnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.
Ch. 134 · 📍 [[Mítenka’s lodge]] · on the third day after his arrival
Then with no less fear and delight they saw how the young count, red in the face and with bloodshot eyes, dragged Mítenka out by the scruff of the neck
Ch. 134 · After that
Nicholas Rostóv Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
Well then, this!” and he tore up the note, and by so doing caused the old countess to weep tears of joy.
Ch. 134 · After that
After that, young Rostóv took no further part in any business affairs, but devoted himself with passionate enthusiasm to what was to him a new pursuit—the chase
Ch. 135 · 📍 [[Otrádnoe enclosure]] · at dawn
I sent Uvárka at dawn to listen,” his bass boomed out after a minute’s pause. “He says she’s moved them into the Otrádnoe enclosure.
Ch. 135
Having finished his inquiries and extorted from Daniel an opinion that the hounds were fit (Daniel himself wished to go hunting), Nicholas ordered the horses to be saddled.
Ch. 136 · on this fifteenth of September
Count Ilyá Rostóv Nicholas Rostóv
The old count, who had always kept up an enormous hunting establishment but had now handed it all completely over to his son’s care
Ch. 136
The hounds were joined into one pack, and “Uncle” and Nicholas rode on side by side.
Ch. 136
The count, like a punished schoolboy, looked round, trying by a smile to win Simon’s sympathy for his plight. But Simon was no longer there. He was galloping round by the bushes while the field was coming up on both sides, all trying to head the wolf, but it vanished into the wood before they could do so.
Ch. 137
Daniel rose a little, took a step, and with his whole weight, as if lying down to rest, fell on the wolf, seizing her by the ears. Nicholas was about to stab her, but Daniel whispered, “Don’t! We’ll gag her!” and, changing his position, set his foot on the wolf’s neck. A stick was thrust between her jaws and she was fastened with a leash, as if bridled, her legs were bound together, and Daniel rolled her over once or twice from side to side.
Ch. 138
The facts were that Ilágin, with whom the Rostóvs had a quarrel and were at law, hunted over places that belonged by custom to the Rostóvs, and had now, as if purposely, sent his men to the very woods the Rostóvs were hunting and let his man snatch a fox their dogs had chased.
Ch. 138
To expiate his huntsman’s offense, Ilágin pressed the Rostóvs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares. Nicholas agreed, and the hunt, now doubled, moved on.
Ch. 138
Michael Nikanórovich Nicholas Rostóv Ilágin
“Uncle’s” red borzoi, straining and curving its back, caught up with the two foremost borzois, pushed ahead of them regardless of the terrible strain, put on speed close to the hare, knocked it off the balk onto the ryefield, again put on speed still more viciously, sinking to his knees in the muddy field, and all one could see was how, muddying his back, he rolled over with the hare.
Ch. 139 · 📍 [[Mikháylovna]]
“He’s chosen already,” said Nicholas smiling. “Oh?” said “Uncle” in surprise, looking inquiringly at Natásha, who nodded her head with a happy smile. “And such a one!” she said.
Ch. 140
Count Ilyá Rostóv had resigned the position of Marshal of the Nobility because it involved him in too much expense
Ch. 140
who had now become a wealthy heiress through the death of the last of her brothers
Ch. 140 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Karágina Nicholas Rostóv Julie Karágina
Karágina had replied that for her part she was agreeable, and everything depend on her daughter’s inclination. She invited Nicholas to come to Moscow.
Ch. 140 · 📍 [[Rome]] · the beginning of the new year
his wound unexpectedly reopened in the warm climate, which obliged him to defer his return till the beginning of the new year
Ch. 143 · that evening
He slipped his arms under the cloak that covered her head, embraced her, pressed her to him, and kissed her on the lips
Ch. 144 · On the way back
that Sónya was certainly his future happy and loving wife.
Ch. 145 · Soon after the Christmas holidays
Soon after the Christmas holidays Nicholas told his mother of his love for Sónya and of his firm resolve to marry her.
Ch. 145
he might marry whom he pleased, but that neither she nor his father would give their blessing to such a marriage.
Ch. 145 · a few days later
the countess sent for Sónya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude.
Ch. 145
he threatened that if she molested Sónya he would at once marry her secretly.
Ch. 145
The countess, sobbing heavily, hid her face on her daughter’s breast, while Nicholas rose, clutching his head, and left the room.
Ch. 145
Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sónya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents’ knowledge.
Ch. 145 · at the beginning of January
Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sónya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.
1811 (91 events)
Chapters 146–157
Ch. 146 · almost at the same time
the death of Joseph Alexéevich, the news of which reached him almost at the same time.
Ch. 146 · after the engagement of Andrew and Natásha and the death of Joseph Alexéevich
He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the club again, drank a great deal
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · At the beginning of winter
At that time enthusiasm for the Emperor Alexander’s regime had weakened and a patriotic and anti-French tendency prevailed there, and this, together with his past and his intellect and his originality, at once made Prince Nicholas Bolkónski an object of particular respect to the Moscovites and the center of the Moscow opposition to the government.
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Just then
Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures.
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · One day in Moscow
Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne
“It’s horrible, vile, inhuman, to take advantage of the weakness...” She did not finish. “Leave my room,” she exclaimed, and burst into sobs.
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Next day
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Mademoiselle Bourienne Princess Mary
Next day the prince did not say a word to his daughter, but she noticed that at dinner he gave orders that Mademoiselle Bourienne should be served first.
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Next day
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Philip
After dinner, when the footman handed coffee and from habit began with the princess, the prince suddenly grew furious, threw his stick at Philip, and instantly gave instructions to have him conscripted for the army.
Ch. 147 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne Philip Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
Princess Mary asked Mademoiselle Bourienne’s pardon, and also her father’s pardon for herself and for Philip the footman, who had begged for her intervention.
Ch. 148 · that morning
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Princess Mary
“No, ma’am! We must part, we must part! Understand that, understand it! I cannot endure any more,” he said, and left the room.
Ch. 148 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · a few days before
Borís Drubetskóy Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
Borís, who had come to Moscow on leave a few days before, had been anxious to be presented to Prince Nicholas Bolkónski, and had contrived to ingratiate himself so well that the old prince in his case made an exception to the rule of not receiving bachelors in his house.
Ch. 148 · At dinner
At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon’s seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg’s territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts.
Ch. 149 · for the third time already
Borís Drubetskóy Princess Mary Mademoiselle Julie Karágina
At present he is hesitating whom to lay siege to—you or Mademoiselle Julie Karágina.
Ch. 149 · In a few months
Prince Andrew’s marriage threatened to cause a rupture between father and son.
Ch. 150 · After the death of her brothers
After the death of her brothers she had become very wealthy.
Ch. 150 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Just as Borís’ leave of absence was expiring
Just as Borís’ leave of absence was expiring, Anatole Kurágin made his appearance in Moscow, and of course in the Karágins’ drawing room, and Julie, suddenly abandoning her melancholy, became cheerful and very attentive to Kurágin.
Ch. 150 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
He blushed hotly, raised his eyes to hers, and said: “You know my feelings for you!” There was no need to say more: Julie’s face shone with triumph and self-satisfaction; but she forced Borís to say all that is said on such occasions—that he loved her and had never loved any other woman more than her.
Ch. 150 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
The affianced couple, no longer alluding to trees that shed gloom and melancholy upon them, planned the arrangements of a splendid house in Petersburg, paid calls, and prepared everything for a brilliant wedding.
Ch. 151 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · At the end of January
Natásha Sónya Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova
At the end of January old Count Rostóv went to Moscow with Natásha and Sónya.
Ch. 151 · Next morning
Natásha Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova Madame Suppert-Roguet
Márya Dmítrievna ordered almost the whole trousseau.
Ch. 151 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
now a purchaser has turned up for the Moscow estate and for the house.
Ch. 152 · 📍 [[Vozdvízhenka]] · Next day
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Count Ilyá Rostóv Natásha
the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him.
Ch. 152 · 📍 [[Vozdvízhenka]] · Next day
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski Princess Mary Count Ilyá Rostóv Natásha
The door opened and the old prince, in a dressing gown and a white nightcap, came in.
Ch. 152 · 📍 [[Vozdvízhenka]] · Next day
Princess Mary Prince Andrew Natásha
Dear Natalie,” said Princess Mary, “I want you to know that I am glad my brother has found happiness....
Ch. 153 · 📍 [[Opera]] · That evening
The Karágins, Julie—and Borís with them. One can see at once that they’re engaged....”
Ch. 153 · 📍 [[Persia]]
They say he has been acting as minister to some ruling prince in Persia, where he killed the Shah’s brother.
Ch. 154 · The first act was over
Borís came to the Rostóvs’ box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natásha and Sónya his fiancée’s invitation to her wedding, and went away.
Ch. 154 · During this act
During this act every time Natásha looked toward the stalls she saw Anatole Kurágin with an arm thrown across the back of his chair, staring at her. She was pleased to see that he was captivated by her and it did not occur to her that there was anything wrong in it.
Ch. 155 · During the entr’acte
You will be the prettiest there. Do come, dear countess, and give me this flower as a pledge!
Ch. 155 · As they were leaving the theater
As he was putting Natásha in he pressed her arm above the elbow.
Ch. 155 · Only after she had reached home
suddenly remembering Prince Andrew she was horrified, and at tea to which all had sat down after the opera, she gave a loud exclamation, flushed, and ran out of the room.
Ch. 155 · at night
yet the former purity of her love for Prince Andrew had perished.
Ch. 156 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Anatole consented and went to Moscow, where he put up at Pierre’s house.
Ch. 156 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · from the time of his arrival
As Shinshín had remarked, from the time of his arrival Anatole had turned the heads of the Moscow ladies
Ch. 156 · two years before
There was a special reason for this, as he had got married two years before—a fact known only to his most intimate friends.
Ch. 156 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that year
Dólokhov, who had reappeared that year in Moscow after his exile and his Persian adventures, and was leading a life of luxury, gambling, and dissipation
Ch. 157 · After Mass
Márya Dmítrievna Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
Márya Dmítrievna came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince’s.
Ch. 157 · As she was leaving the Rostóvs
Hélène Anatole Kurágin Natásha
He is madly, quite madly, in love with you, my dear.
Chapters 158–167
Ch. 158 · 📍 [[Countess Bezúkhova’s]]
You are enchanting... from the moment I saw you I have never ceased...
Ch. 158 · 📍 [[Countess Bezúkhova’s]]
Natásha Anatole Kurágin Prince Andrew
Don’t say such things to me. I am betrothed and love another,
Ch. 158 · 📍 [[Countess Bezúkhova’s]] · Later on
Burning lips were pressed to hers, and at the same instant she felt herself released, and Hélène’s footsteps and the rustle of her dress were heard in the room.
Ch. 158 · 📍 [[Countess Bezúkhova’s]] · that evening
The Rostóvs went away without staying for supper.
Ch. 159 · 📍 [[Otrádnoe]] · After breakfast
Márya Dmítrievna Natásha Count Ilyá Rostóv
My advice to you is finish your business and go back home to Otrádnoe... and wait there.
Ch. 159 · After breakfast
Whatever her father’s feelings might be, she begged Natásha to believe that she could not help loving her as the one chosen by her brother, for whose happiness she was ready to sacrifice everything.
Ch. 159 · After dinner
Anatole Kurágin Dólokhov Natásha
but that if she loved him she need only say the word yes, and no human power could hinder their bliss. Love would conquer all. He would steal her away and carry her off to the ends of the earth.
Ch. 159 · After dinner
Yes, yes! I love him!” thought Natásha, reading the letter for the twentieth time and finding some peculiarly deep meaning in each word of it.
Ch. 160 · late in the evening
“No, Sónya, I can’t any longer!” she said. “I can’t hide it from you any longer. You know, we love one another!
Ch. 160 · At that moment
Natásha Prince Andrew Princess Mary
In this letter she said briefly that all their misunderstandings were at an end; that availing herself of the magnanimity of Prince Andrew who when he went abroad had given her her freedom, she begged Princess Mary to forget everything and forgive her if she had been to blame toward her, but that she could not be his wife.
Ch. 160 · that evening
Then suddenly it became clear to Sónya that Natásha had some dreadful plan for that evening.
Ch. 161 · a few days before
Anatole Kurágin Dólokhov Natásha
The plan for Natalie Rostóva’s abduction had been arranged and the preparations made by Dólokhov a few days before
Ch. 161 · 📍 [[Kámenka]] · at ten that evening
Natásha had promised to come out to Kurágin at the back porch at ten that evening. Kurágin was to put her into a troyka he would have ready and to drive her forty miles to the village of Kámenka, where an unfrocked priest was in readiness to perform a marriage ceremony over them.
Ch. 161 · 📍 [[Dólokhov’s]]
Anatole Kurágin Khvóstikov Makárin
Two witnesses for the mock marriage—Khvóstikov, a retired petty official whom Dólokhov made use of in his gambling transactions, and Makárin, a retired hussar, a kindly, weak fellow who had an unbounded affection for Kurágin—were sitting at tea in Dólokhov’s front room.
Ch. 161 · at once
“We’ll start at once. Mind, Balagá! You’ll get there in time? Eh?”
Ch. 162
Anatole Kurágin Theodore Makárin Balagá
I am going abroad. We have had a good time—now farewell, lads!
Ch. 162 · 📍 [[Nikítski Boulevard]]
Anatole Kurágin Dólokhov Balagá Makárin Khvóstikov
Balagá took his seat in the front one and holding his elbows high arranged the reins deliberately. Anatole and Dólokhov got in with him.
Ch. 162 · 📍 [[old Konyúsheny Street]]
Anatole Kurágin Gabriel Márya Dmítrievna
He was met by Gabriel, Márya Dmítrievna’s gigantic footman.
Ch. 162 · 📍 [[old Konyúsheny Street]]
Anatole Kurágin Dólokhov Gabriel
With a last desperate effort Dólokhov pushed the porter aside, and when Anatole ran back seized him by the arm, pulled him through the wicket, and ran back with him to the troyka.
Ch. 163
Márya Dmítrievna, having found Sónya weeping in the corridor, made her confess everything, and intercepting the note to Natásha she read it and went into Natásha’s room with it in her hand. “You shameless good-for-nothing!” said she. “I won’t hear a word.” Pushing back Natásha who looked at her with astonished but tearless eyes, she locked her in
Ch. 163 · Toward midnight
Márya Dmítrievna Count Ilyá Rostóv
Hard as it may be, I’ll tell them all to hold their tongues and will hide it from the count.”
Ch. 163 · Next day
Márya Dmítrievna Count Ilyá Rostóv Natásha
Márya Dmítrievna met him and told him that Natásha had been very unwell the day before and that they had sent for the doctor, but that she was better now.
Ch. 164 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Márya Dmítrievna informed him that Natásha had refused Prince Andrew without her parents’ knowledge
Ch. 164 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · during her father’s absence
with whom Natásha had tried to elope during her father’s absence, in order to be married secretly.
Ch. 164 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Natásha Anatole Kurágin Pierre
“Then it is not true that he’s married!” “Yes, it is true.”
Ch. 165
Pierre Anatole Kurágin Natásha
You promised Countess Rostóva to marry her and were about to elope with her, is that so?
Ch. 165
Anatole Kurágin Pierre Natásha
Anatole glanced at him and immediately thrust his hand into his pocket and drew out his pocketbook.
Ch. 166 · the night after she had been told that Anatole was married
Natásha was very ill, having, as Márya Dmítrievna told him in secret, poisoned herself the night after she had been told that Anatole was married, with some arsenic she had stealthily procured. After swallowing a little she had been so frightened that she woke Sónya and told her what she had done. The necessary antidotes had been administered in time and she was now out of danger
Ch. 166 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Anatole Kurágin Márya Dmítrievna
Pierre drove to Márya Dmítrievna’s to tell her of the fulfillment of her wish that Kurágin should be banished from Moscow.
Ch. 166 · As soon as he reached Moscow
Natásha Prince Andrew Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne
As soon as he reached Moscow, Prince Andrew had received from his father Natásha’s note to Princess Mary breaking off her engagement
Ch. 166 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · next morning
Prince Andrew had arrived in the evening and Pierre came to see him next morning.
Ch. 166
Tell Countess Rostóva that she was and is perfectly free and that I wish her all that is good.
Ch. 166
I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn’t say I could forgive her. I can’t.
Ch. 167 · That same evening
“He is here now: tell him... to for... forgive me!”
Chapters 168–354
Ch. 168 · 📍 [[Russian frontier]] · From the close of the year 1811
From the close of the year 1811 an intensified arming and concentrating of the forces of Western Europe began, and in 1812 these forces—millions of men, reckoning those transporting and feeding the army—moved from the west eastwards to the Russian frontier
Ch. 168 · 📍 [[Russian frontier]] · since 1811
toward which since 1811 Russian forces had been similarly drawn.
Ch. 327 · 📍 [[Vílna]]
Contrary to the Emperor’s wish Kutúzov detained the greater part of the army at Vílna.
Ch. 340 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
The invasion pushes eastward and reaches its final goal—Moscow. That city is taken;
Ch. 354 · in 1811
in 1811 they again quarreled and again began killing many people.
Ch. 354 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Napoleon led six hundred thousand men into Russia and captured Moscow
Ch. 354 · 📍 [[Paris]]
The Allies defeated Napoleon, entered Paris, forced Napoleon to abdicate, and sent him to the island of Elba
Ch. 354 · 📍 [[France]] · Then
Then Louis XVIII, who till then had been the laughingstock both of the French and the Allies, began to reign.
Ch. 354 · Then
And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile.
Ch. 354 · 📍 [[the island of St. Helena]] · Then
sent him to the island of St. Helena. And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock
1812 (535 events)
Chapters 168–176
Ch. 168 · 📍 [[Russian frontier]] · On the twelfth of June, 1812
On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began
Ch. 168
Napoleon’s refusal to withdraw his troops beyond the Vistula and to restore the duchy of Oldenburg;
Ch. 169 · 📍 [[Dresden]] · On the twenty-ninth of May
On the twenty-ninth of May Napoleon left Dresden
Ch. 169
the Emperor Napoleon himself wrote a letter to Alexander, calling him Monsieur mon frère, and sincerely assured him that he did not want war and would always love and honor him—yet he set off to join his army
Ch. 169 · 📍 [[Niemen]] · the next day
Napoleon unexpectedly, and contrary alike to strategic and diplomatic considerations, ordered an advance, and the next day his army began to cross the Niemen.
Ch. 169 · 📍 [[Niemen]] · On the thirteenth of June
The order was to find a ford and to cross the river.
Ch. 169 · 📍 [[Niemen]]
Some forty Uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance.
Ch. 169 · That evening
another that a Saxon should be shot, on whom a letter containing information about the orders to the French army had been found
Ch. 169 · That evening
Napoleon also gave instructions that the Polish colonel who had needlessly plunged into the river should be enrolled in the Légion d’honneur
Ch. 170 · 📍 [[Niemen]] · The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen
The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier,
Ch. 170
“To enter Russia without declaring war! I will not make peace as long as a single armed enemy remains in my country!”
Ch. 170
Borís was thus the first to learn the news that the French army had crossed the Niemen and, thanks to this, was able to show certain important personages that much that was concealed from others was usually known to him, and by this means he rose higher in their estimation.
Ch. 170 · at two o’clock that night
Emperor Alexander Shishkóv Prince Saltykóv
On returning home at two o’clock that night he sent for his secretary, Shishkóv, and told him to write an order to the troops and a rescript to Field Marshal Prince Saltykóv, in which he insisted on the words being inserted that he would not make peace so long as a single armed Frenchman remained on Russian soil.
Ch. 171 · At two in the morning of the fourteenth
Emperor Alexander Balashëv Napoleon
At two in the morning of the fourteenth of June, the Emperor, having sent for Balashëv and read him his letter to Napoleon, ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor.
Ch. 172 · A minute later
A minute later the marshal’s adjutant, de Castrès, came in and conducted Balashëv to the quarters assigned him.
Ch. 172 · Next day
Next day Davout rode out early and, after asking Balashëv to come to him, peremptorily requested him to remain there, to move on with the baggage train should orders come for it to move, and to talk to no one except Monsieur de Castrès.
Ch. 172 · 📍 [[Vílna]] · After four days of solitude, ennui, and consciousness of his impotence and insignificance
After four days of solitude, ennui, and consciousness of his impotence and insignificance—particularly acute by contrast with the sphere of power in which he had so lately moved—and after several marches with the marshal’s baggage and the French army, which occupied the whole district, Balashëv was brought to Vílna—now occupied by the French—through the very gate by which he had left it four days previously.
Ch. 172 · 📍 [[Vílna]] · Next day
Comte de Turenne Balashëv Napoleon
Next day the imperial gentleman-in-waiting, the Comte de Turenne, came to Balashëv and informed him of the Emperor Napoleon’s wish to honor him with an audience.
Ch. 172 · 📍 [[Vílna]]
Napoleon Balashëv Emperor Alexander
Napoleon received Balashëv in the very house in Vílna from which Alexander had dispatched him on his mission.
Ch. 173
Balashëv Napoleon Emperor Alexander
“On condition that the French army retires beyond the Niemen.”
Ch. 173
Napoleon Balashëv Emperor Alexander
“If you gave me Petersburg and Moscow I could not accept such conditions.”
Ch. 173
Napoleon Balashëv Emperor Alexander
“Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I’ll wipe it off the map of Europe!”
Ch. 173
Napoleon Balashëv Emperor Alexander
“I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter to the Emperor.”
Ch. 174
Napoleon Emperor Alexander Balashëv
The letter taken by Balashëv was the last Napoleon sent to Alexander.
Ch. 174
Every detail of the interview was communicated to the Russian monarch, and the war began....
Ch. 175 · 📍 [[Moldavia]]
Anatole Kurágin promptly obtained an appointment from the Minister of War and went to join the army in Moldavia.
Ch. 175 · 📍 [[Turkey]]
So Prince Andrew, having received an appointment on the headquarters staff, left for Turkey.
Ch. 175
Prince Andrew young Countess Rostóva
After his betrothed had broken faith with him—which he felt the more acutely the more he tried to conceal its effects—the surroundings in which he had been happy became trying to him
Ch. 175 · 📍 [[Bucharest]] · In the year 1812
In the year 1812, when news of the war with Napoleon reached Bucharest—where Kutúzov had been living for two months, passing his days and nights with a Wallachian woman—Prince Andrew asked Kutúzov to transfer him to the Western Army. Kutúzov, who was already weary of Bolkónski’s activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.
Ch. 175 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
Prince Andrew Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne Dessalles Little Nicholas
The household was divided into two alien and hostile camps, who changed their habits for his sake and only met because he was there. To the one camp belonged the old prince, Mademoiselle Bourienne, and the architect; to the other Princess Mary, Dessalles, little Nicholas, and all the old nurses and maids.
Ch. 175 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · Next day
Princess Mary begged him to stay one day more, saying that she knew how unhappy her father would be if Andrew left without being reconciled to him, but Prince Andrew replied that he would probably soon be back again from the army and would certainly write to his father, but that the longer he stayed now the more embittered their differences would become.
Ch. 176 · 📍 [[Drissa]] · at the end of June
Prince Andrew Barclay de Tolly
Prince Andrew found Barclay de Tolly, to whom he had been assigned, on the bank of the Drissa. ... He received Bolkónski stiffly and coldly and told him in his foreign accent that he would mention him to the Emperor for a decision as to his employment, but asked him meanwhile to remain on his staff.
Ch. 176 · 📍 [[Vílna]] · While the Emperor had still been at Vílna
Barclay de Tolly Prince Bagratión
While the Emperor had still been at Vílna, the forces had been divided into three armies. First, the army under Barclay de Tolly, secondly, the army under Bagratión, and thirdly, the one commanded by Tormásov.
Ch. 176
It was this: the Emperor did not assume the title of commander in chief, but disposed of all the armies; the men around him were his assistants.
Ch. 176 · 📍 [[Drissa]] · Just at the time Prince Andrew was living unoccupied at Drissa
Shishkóv Arakchéev Balashëv Emperor Alexander
Just at the time Prince Andrew was living unoccupied at Drissa, Shishkóv, the Secretary of State and one of the chief representatives of this party, wrote a letter to the Emperor which Arakchéev and Balashëv agreed to sign. In this letter, availing himself of permission given him by the Emperor to discuss the general course of affairs, he respectfully suggested—on the plea that it was necessary for the sovereign to arouse a warlike spirit in the people of the capital—that the Emperor should leave the army. That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his call to them to defend their country—the very incitement which was the chief cause of Russia’s triumph in so far as it was produced by the Tsar’s personal presence in Moscow—was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a pretext for quitting the army.
Chapters 177–188
Ch. 177 · 📍 [[Bennigsen’s quarters]] · one day
This letter had not yet been presented to the Emperor when Barclay, one day at dinner, informed Bolkónski that the sovereign wished to see him personally, to question him about Turkey
Ch. 177 · 📍 [[Bennigsen’s quarters]] · at six that evening
Prince Andrew General Bennigsen
and that Prince Andrew was to present himself at Bennigsen’s quarters at six that evening.
Ch. 177 · 📍 [[Drissa]] · that very day
News was received at the Emperor’s quarters that very day of a fresh movement by Napoleon which might endanger the army—news subsequently found to be false.
Ch. 177 · 📍 [[Drissa camp]] · that morning
the Emperor, accompanied by General Bennigsen and Marquis Paulucci, had gone a second time that day to inspect the fortifications of the Drissa camp, of the suitability of which serious doubts were beginning to be felt.
Ch. 177 · 📍 [[Bennigsen’s quarters]]
To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General Wolzogen, Wintzingerode (whom Napoleon had referred to as a renegade French subject), Michaud, Toll, Count Stein who was not a military man at all, and Pfuel himself
Ch. 178 · next day
At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign’s person, but for permission to serve in the army.
Ch. 179 · Before the beginning of the campaign
Before the beginning of the campaign, Rostóv had received a letter from his parents in which they told him briefly of Natásha’s illness and the breaking off of her engagement to Prince Andrew (which they explained by Natásha’s having rejected him)
Ch. 179 · During his absence
During his absence he had been promoted captain, and when the regiment was put on war footing with an increase in numbers, he was again allotted his old squadron.
Ch. 179 · 📍 [[Ukraine]] · On his return from his furlough
On his return from his furlough Nicholas, having been joyfully welcomed by his comrades, was sent to obtain remounts and brought back from the Ukraine excellent horses which pleased him and earned him commendation from his commanders.
Ch. 179 · 📍 [[Poland]] · The campaign began
The campaign began, the regiment was moved into Poland on double pay, new officers arrived, new men and horses, and above all everybody was infected with the merrily excited mood that goes with the commencement of a war
Ch. 179 · On the thirteenth of July
On the thirteenth of July the Pávlograds took part in a serious action for the first time.
Ch. 180
Nicholas Rostóv Ilyín Lavrúshka
behind that screen Rostóv and Ilyín, helped by Lavrúshka who had brought their kits, changed their wet things for dry ones.
Ch. 180
Mary Hendríkhovna [[thedoctor]]
When he had gone, taking his wife with him, and had settled down with her in their covered cart, the officers lay down in the tavern
Ch. 181 · 📍 [[Ostróvna]] · nearly three o’clock
the quartermaster appeared with an order to move on to the little town of Ostróvna.
Ch. 181 · Before Rostóv had had time to consider
Count Ostermann-Tolstóy’s adjutant came galloping from Vítebsk with orders to advance at a trot along the road.
Ch. 181
the hussars, passing along the line of troops on the left flank of our position, halted behind our Uhlans who were in the front line.
Ch. 181 · After Ostermann had gone
As soon as the Uhlans descended the hill, the hussars were ordered up the hill to support the battery.
Ch. 181 · five minutes later
five minutes later our Uhlans were galloping back, not to the place they had occupied but more to the left
Ch. 182
Rostóv, without waiting to hear him out, touched his horse, galloped to the front of his squadron, and before he had time to finish giving the word of command, the whole squadron, sharing his feeling, was following him.
Ch. 182
Before Rostóv had decided what to do with him, the officer cried, “I surrender!”
Ch. 182
Count Ostermann-Tolstóy Nicholas Rostóv
Count Ostermann-Tolstóy met the returning hussars, sent for Rostóv, thanked him, and said he would report his gallant deed to the Emperor and would recommend him for a St. George’s Cross.
Ch. 182 · that day and the next
All that day and the next his friends and comrades noticed that Rostóv, without being dull or angry, was silent, thoughtful, and preoccupied.
Ch. 183 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On receiving news of Natásha’s illness
On receiving news of Natásha’s illness, the countess, though not quite well yet and still weak, went to Moscow with Pétya and the rest of the household, and the whole family moved from Márya Dmítrievna’s house to their own and settled down in town.
Ch. 183
the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background.
Ch. 183 · that summer of 1812
Natásha’s grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.
Ch. 184 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Before the end of the fast of St. Peter
Natásha Agraféna Ivánovna Belóva
She suggested that Natásha should fast and prepare for Holy Communion, and Natásha gladly welcomed the idea.
Ch. 184 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · on that memorable Sunday
But the happy day came, and on that memorable Sunday, when, dressed in white muslin, she returned home after communion, for the first time for many months she felt calm and not oppressed by the thought of the life that lay before her.
Ch. 185 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On the eleventh of July
On the eleventh of July, which was Saturday, the manifesto was received but was not yet in print, and Pierre, who was at the Rostóvs’, promised to come to dinner next day, Sunday, and bring a copy of the manifesto and appeal, which he would obtain from Count Rostopchín.
Ch. 185 · 📍 [[Razumóvskis’ private chapel]] · That Sunday
Unexpectedly, in the middle of the service, and not in the usual order Natásha knew so well, the deacon brought out a small stool
Ch. 186
L’russe Besuhof made 666. This discovery excited him. How, or by what means, he was connected with the great event foretold in the Apocalypse he did not know, but he did not doubt that connection for a moment.
Ch. 186 · In the morning
Rostopchín also gave him the Emperor’s appeal to Moscow, which had just been printed, the last army orders, and his own most recent bulletin.
Ch. 187
I want to try to sing again,” she said, adding as if by way of excuse, “it is, at least, something to do.
Ch. 187 · lately
he and his friend Obolénski had lately, in secret, agreed to join the hussars.
Ch. 187
Well, Papa, I tell you definitely, and Mamma too, it’s as you please, but I say definitely that you must let me enter the army, because I can’t... that’s all....
Ch. 188
After the definite refusal he had received, Pétya went to his room and there locked himself in and wept bitterly.
Ch. 188 · 📍 [[Krémlin]] · tomorrow
Pétya ... resolved that tomorrow, come what might, he would join the army.
Ch. 188 · On returning home
On returning home Pétya announced resolutely and firmly that if he was not allowed to enter the service he would run away.
Ch. 188 · next day
Count Ilyá Rostóv Pétya Rostóv
And next day, Count Ilyá Rostóv—though he had not yet quite yielded—went to inquire how he could arrange for Pétya to serve where there would be least danger.
Chapters 189–198
Ch. 189 · 📍 [[Slobóda Palace]] · on the fifteenth of July
The Emperor’s manifesto was read, evoking enthusiasm, and then all moved about discussing it.
Ch. 189 · 📍 [[Slobóda Palace]] · on the fifteenth of July
Pierre Stepán Stepánovich Adráksin
Not only was Pierre’s attempt to speak unsuccessful, but he was rudely interrupted, pushed aside, and people turned away from him as from a common enemy.
Ch. 190 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolénsk gentry had done.
Ch. 190
Having heard that Count Mamónov was furnishing a regiment, Bezúkhov at once informed Rostopchín that he would give a thousand men and their maintenance.
Ch. 190
Count Ilyá Rostóv Pétya Rostóv
Old Rostóv could not tell his wife of what had passed without tears, and at once consented to Pétya’s request and went himself to enter his name.
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Russia]]
Napoleon began the war with Russia because he could not resist going to Dresden, could not help having his head turned by the homage he received, could not help donning a Polish uniform and yielding to the stimulating influence of a June morning, and could not refrain from bursts of anger in the presence of Kurákin and then of Balashëv.
Ch. 191
Alexander refused negotiations because he felt himself to be personally insulted.
Ch. 191 · At the very beginning of the war
At the very beginning of the war our armies were divided, and our sole aim was to unite them
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Drissa camp]]
Paulucci Emperor Alexander Pfuel Barclay de Tolly
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel’s whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay.
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · At last
At last the Emperor left the army, and as the most convenient and indeed the only pretext for his departure it was decided that it was necessary for him to inspire the people in the capitals and arouse the nation in general to a patriotic war.
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · At Smolénsk
Prince Bagratión Barclay de Tolly
At Smolénsk the armies at last reunited, much as Bagratión disliked it.
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]]
It was necessary to fight an unexpected battle at Smolénsk to save our lines of communication. The battle was fought and thousands were killed on both sides.
Ch. 191 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]]
Smolénsk was abandoned contrary to the wishes of the Emperor and of the whole people. But Smolénsk was burned by its own inhabitants who had been misled by their governor.
Ch. 192 · After that
After that Princess Mary did not see her father for a whole week. He was ill and did not leave his study.
Ch. 192 · At the end of the week
Little Nicholas Mademoiselle Bourienne
At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne.
Ch. 192 · from that time
Little Nicholas Prince Andrew Mademoiselle Bourienne
To this letter the old prince had replied affectionately, and from that time had kept the Frenchwoman at a distance.
Ch. 192 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · On August 1
Prince Andrew Little Nicholas Princess Mary
Prince Andrew’s second letter, written near Vítebsk after the French had occupied that town, gave a brief account of the whole campaign, enclosed for them a plan he had drawn and forecasts as to the further progress of the war. In this letter Prince Andrew pointed out to his father the danger of staying at Bald Hills, so near the theater of war and on the army’s direct line of march, and advised him to move to Moscow.
Ch. 193 · in the stillness of the night
Only now in the stillness of the night, reading it by the faint light under the green shade, did he grasp its meaning for a moment.
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · The same evening
Having received all his orders Alpátych, wearing a white beaver hat—a present from the prince—and carrying a stick as the prince did, went out accompanied by his family.
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · the evening of the fourth of August
Still, as the prince is unwell my advice is that they should go to Moscow. I am just starting myself. Inform them...
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · after four o’clock
The town was being bombarded by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o’clock.
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · Night had come
Loot everything, lads! Don’t let those devils get it!” he cried, taking some bags of flour himself and throwing them into the street.
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · within a week
Prince Andrew Princess Mary Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
Smolénsk is being abandoned. Bald Hills will be occupied by the enemy within a week. Set off immediately for Moscow.
Ch. 194 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · by the tenth
Prince Andrew Princess Mary Prince Nicholas Bolkónski
I shall await a reply till the tenth, and if by the tenth I don’t receive news that they have all got away I shall have to throw up everything and come myself to Bald Hills.
Ch. 195 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · On the seventh of August
I expect the Minister (Barclay de Tolly) has already reported the abandonment of Smolénsk to the enemy.
Ch. 195 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · that night
Prince Bagratión Barclay de Tolly
He gave me his word he would not retreat, but suddenly sent instructions that he was retiring that night.
Ch. 195 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · on the sixth of August
after the abandonment of Smolénsk on the sixth of August (he considered that it could and should have been defended) and after his sick father had had to flee to Moscow, abandoning to pillage his dearly beloved Bald Hills which he had built and peopled.
Ch. 195 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
Everything precious and valuable had been removed to Boguchárovo. Seventy quarters of grain had also been carted away.
Ch. 195 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
You must go away too, take away what you can and tell the serfs to go to the Ryazán estate or to the one near Moscow.
Ch. 195 · on our retreat
Consider that on our retreat we have lost by fatigue and left in the hospital more than fifteen thousand men
Ch. 196 · on the twenty-ninth of July
But on the twenty-ninth of July Kutúzov received the title of Prince.
Ch. 196 · on the eighth of August
Saltykóv Arakchéev Vyazmítinov Lopukhín Kochubéy Kutúzov
But on the eighth of August a committee, consisting of Field Marshal Saltykóv, Arakchéev, Vyazmítinov, Lopukhín, and Kochubéy met to consider the progress of the war. This committee came to the conclusion that our failures were due to a want of unity in the command and though the members of the committee were aware of the Emperor’s dislike of Kutúzov, after a short deliberation they agreed to advise his appointment as commander in chief. That same day Kutúzov was appointed commander in chief with full powers over the armies and over the whole region occupied by them.
Ch. 197 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · After Smolénsk
From Vyázma Napoleon ordered a direct advance on Moscow.
Ch. 197 · the day before
Lavrúshka, having got drunk the day before and left his master dinnerless, had been whipped and sent to the village in quest of chickens, where he engaged in looting till the French took him prisoner.
Ch. 197 · 📍 [[Yankóvo]] · by evening
Lavrúshka Nicholas Rostóv Ilyín
He found the Cossacks, inquired for the regiment operating with Plátov’s detachment and by evening found his master, Nicholas Rostóv, quartered at Yankóvo.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
he had resolved to remain at Bald Hills to the last extremity and to defend it
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
She refused to go away and her father’s fury broke over her in a terrible storm.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · The morning after little Nicholas had left
the prince had had a seizure paralyzing his right side.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · next day
next day they moved the prince to Boguchárovo, the doctor accompanying him.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · By the time they reached Boguchárovo
Dessalles and the little prince had already left for Moscow.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · The fifteenth
The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · That day
then he had a second and final stroke.
Ch. 198 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
Little Nicholas Princess Mary Tíkhon
the old prince’s cold and stiffened hand
Chapters 199–208
Ch. 199 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · shortly before the old prince’s death
Alpátych ... noticed an agitation among the peasants, and that ... the peasants in the steppe region round Boguchárovo were, it was rumored, in touch with the French
Ch. 199 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · on the day of the prince’s funeral
Alpátych ... told him to have twelve horses got ready for the princess’ carriages and eighteen carts for the things to be removed from Boguchárovo. Though the peasants paid quitrent, Alpátych thought no difficulty would be made about complying with this order
Ch. 199 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · when evening came
when evening came no carts had been provided. In the village, outside the drink shop, another meeting was being held, which decided that the horses should be driven out into the woods and the carts should not be provided.
Ch. 199 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · Meanwhile
Alpátych had his own belongings taken out of the carts which had arrived from Bald Hills and had those horses got ready for the princess’ carriages. Meanwhile he went himself to the police authorities.
Ch. 200 · After her father’s funeral
After her father’s funeral Princess Mary shut herself up in her room and did not admit anyone.
Ch. 200 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · at once
Princess Mary Mademoiselle Bourienne
We must go at once, at once!” she said, appalled at the thought of being left in the hands of the French.
Ch. 200 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
They’re dying of hunger,” said Dron. “It’s not a case of carting.”
Ch. 200 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
Give them that corn if there is enough of it. Distribute it all. I give this order in my brother’s name; and tell them that what is ours is theirs.
Ch. 201 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
They say they don’t agree to leave Boguchárovo as you ordered.
Ch. 201
I ask you to go with all your belongings to our estate near Moscow, and I promise you I will see to it that there you shall want for nothing.
Ch. 201 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
We’re not willing. Let them ruin us! We won’t take your grain. We don’t agree.
Ch. 201 · next morning
Having repeated her order to Dron to have horses ready for her departure next morning
Ch. 202 · that night
“Dunyásha,” she whispered. “Dunyásha!” she screamed wildly, and tearing herself out of this silence she ran to the servants’ quarters to meet her old nurse and the maidservants who came running toward her.
Ch. 203 · on the fifteenth of this month
My mistress, daughter of General in Chief Prince Nicholas Bolkónski who died on the fifteenth of this month
Ch. 203 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · the previous day
Dron had finally given up the keys and joined the peasants
Ch. 203 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · in the morning
the peasants had come in a large crowd to the barn and sent word that they would not let her leave the village
Ch. 203 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]]
Go when you please, and I give you my word of honor that no one shall dare to cause you annoyance if only you will allow me to act as your escort.
Ch. 204
Nicholas Rostóv Karp Dron Zakhárych Lavrúshka Yákov Alpátych
“Arguing? Mutiny!... Brigands! Traitors!” cried Rostóv unmeaningly in a voice not his own, gripping Karp by the collar. “Bind him, bind him!” he shouted, though there was no one to bind him but Lavrúshka and Alpátych.
Ch. 204 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · Two hours later
Dron, liberated at Princess Mary’s wish from the cupboard where he had been confined, was standing in the yard directing the men.
Ch. 204 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · Two hours later
The peasants were briskly carrying out the proprietor’s goods and packing them on the carts, and Dron, liberated at Princess Mary’s wish from the cupboard where he had been confined, was standing in the yard directing the men.
Ch. 204 · 📍 [[Boguchárovo]] · When her carriage drove out of the house
When her carriage drove out of the house, he mounted and accompanied her eight miles from Boguchárovo to where the road was occupied by our troops.
Ch. 205
On receiving command of the armies Kutúzov remembered Prince Andrew and sent an order for him to report at headquarters.
Ch. 205 · yesterday
“I received news of his death, yesterday,” replied Prince Andrew abruptly.
Ch. 206
I have grown used to my regiment, am fond of the officers, and I fancy the men also like me. I should be sorry to leave the regiment.
Ch. 206
I missed you at Bucharest, but I needed someone to send. And changing the subject, Kutúzov began to speak of the Turkish war and the peace that had been concluded.
Ch. 206
On such feelings, more or less dimly shared by all, the unanimity and general approval were founded with which, despite court influences, the popular choice of Kutúzov as commander in chief was received.
Ch. 207 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
It was said that Rostopchín had expelled all Frenchmen and even all foreigners from Moscow
Ch. 207 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · next day
Julie was preparing to leave Moscow next day and was giving a farewell soiree.
Ch. 207
But now they have had him transferred to my regiment and are expecting him every day.
Ch. 207 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · yesterday
Poor Mary Bolkónskaya arrived in Moscow yesterday. Do you know that she has lost her father?
Ch. 207
Nicholas Rostóv! She was surrounded, and they wanted to kill her and had wounded some of her people. He rushed in and saved her....
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that day
The first declared that the report that Count Rostopchín had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen’s wives were leaving the city.
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
These words showed Pierre clearly for the first time that the French would enter Moscow.
Ch. 208 · Next day toward evening
“Well then, sell it,” said he. “What’s to be done? I can’t draw back now!”
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Vorontsóvo]] · that day
The balloon was not yet ready, but Pierre learned that it was being constructed by the Emperor’s desire.
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that very day
At the sight of the tortured Frenchman and the crowd surrounding the Lóbnoe Place, Pierre had so definitely made up his mind that he could no longer remain in Moscow and would leave for the army that very day
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On the twenty-fourth
On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow.
Ch. 208 · 📍 [[Perkhúshkovo]] · that night
When changing horses that night in Perkhúshkovo, he learned that there had been a great battle that evening.
Chapters 209–222
Ch. 209 · 📍 [[Shevárdino Redoubt]] · on the twenty-fourth
while pursuing the Russian rearguard he came upon the left flank of the Russian position—at the Shevárdino Redoubt—and unexpectedly for the Russians moved his army across the Kolochá.
Ch. 209 · 📍 [[Shevárdino Redoubt]] · on the morning of the twenty-fifth
After the loss of the Shevárdino Redoubt, we found ourselves on the morning of the twenty-fifth without a position for our left flank, and were forced to bend it back and hastily entrench it where it chanced to be.
Ch. 209 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · on the twenty-sixth of August
The battle of Borodinó was not fought on a chosen and entrenched position with forces only slightly weaker than those of the enemy, but, as a result of the loss of the Shevárdino Redoubt, the Russians fought the battle of Borodinó on an open and almost unentrenched position, with forces only half as numerous as the French;
Ch. 211 · 📍 [[Borodinó]]
It was Kutúzov, who had been riding round the position and on his way back to Tatárinova had stopped where the service was being held.
Ch. 211 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · When the service was over
At last he rose, kissed the icon as a child does with naïvely pouting lips, and again bowed till he touched the ground with his hand.
Ch. 212 · after the changes
Borís Drubetskóy Count Bennigsen
Though Kutúzov had dismissed all unnecessary men from the staff, Borís had contrived to remain at headquarters after the changes. He had established himself with Count Bennigsen
Ch. 212 · On the eve of a day
On the eve of a day when God alone knows who of us is fated to survive, I am glad of this opportunity to tell you that I regret the misunderstandings that occurred between us and should wish you not to have any ill feeling for me. I beg you to forgive me.”
Ch. 213
Bennigsen on his own authority ordered the troops to occupy the high ground.
Ch. 214 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
When my father built Bald Hills he thought the place was his: his land, his air, his peasants. But Napoleon came and swept him aside, unconscious of his existence, as he might brush a chip from his path, and his Bald Hills and his whole life fell to pieces.
Ch. 214
Yes, they have. Julie Drubetskáya told me so. I went to see them, but missed them. They have gone to your estate near Moscow.
Ch. 215 · It was already dark
He came quickly up to Pierre and embraced and kissed him. “Good-by, be off!” he shouted. “Whether we meet again or not...”
Ch. 216 · 📍 [[Valúevo]] · On August 25
“A present to Your Majesty from the Empress.” It was a portrait, painted in bright colors by Gérard, of the son borne to Napoleon by the daughter of the Emperor of Austria, the boy whom for some reason everyone called “The King of Rome.”
Ch. 216 · 📍 [[Valúevo]]
He ordered the portrait to be carried outside his tent, that the Old Guard, stationed round it, might not be deprived of the pleasure of seeing the King of Rome, the son and heir of their adored monarch.
Ch. 216 · 📍 [[Valúevo]] · After breakfast
After breakfast Napoleon in de Beausset’s presence dictated his order of the day to the army.
Ch. 216 · 📍 [[Valúevo]]
“Take him away!” he said, pointing with a gracefully majestic gesture to the portrait. “It is too soon for him to see a field of battle.”
Ch. 217 · On the twenty-fifth of August
To a proposal made by General Campan (who was to attack the flèches) to lead his division through the woods, Napoleon agreed, though the so-called Duke of Elchingen (Ney) ventured to remark that a movement through the woods was dangerous and might disorder the division.
Ch. 217 · 📍 [[Shevárdino Redoubt]] · by the morrow
Having inspected the country opposite the Shevárdino Redoubt, Napoleon pondered a little in silence and then indicated the spots where two batteries should be set up by the morrow to act against the Russian entrenchments, and the places where, in line with them, the field artillery should be placed.
Ch. 217
This could not be done and was not done, because Poniatowski, advancing on the village through the wood, met Túchkov there barring his way, and could not and did not turn the Russian position.
Ch. 217
General Campan’s division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.
Ch. 217 · during the whole battle
during the whole battle Napoleon was so far away that, as appeared later, he could not know the course of the battle and not one of his orders during the fight could be executed.
Ch. 218
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was not due to Charles IX’s will, though he gave the order for it and thought it was done as a result of that order;
Ch. 220 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · next morning
“Hear the firing,” said the groom, a discharged soldier.
Ch. 220
Pierre went to his groom who was holding his horses and, asking which was the quietest, clambered onto it, seized it by the mane, and turning out his toes pressed his heels against its sides and, feeling that his spectacles were slipping off but unable to let go of the mane and reins, he galloped after the general
Ch. 221 · 📍 [[Raévski’s Redoubt]]
Pierre did not find his groom and rode along the hollow with the adjutant to Raévski’s Redoubt.
Ch. 221 · 📍 [[Raévski’s Redoubt]] · that day
[[theadjutant]]
only much later did Pierre learn that he lost an arm that day.
Ch. 221 · 📍 [[Raévski’s Redoubt]] · At ten o’clock
[[theinfantry]]
At ten o’clock the infantry that had been among the bushes in front of the battery and along the Kámenka streamlet retreated.
Ch. 221 · 📍 [[Raévski’s Redoubt]]
[[theyoungofficer]]
Suddenly something happened: the young officer gave a gasp and bending double sat down on the ground like a bird shot on the wing.
Ch. 221
the ammunition wagons he had been approaching no longer existed, only charred green boards and rags littered the scorched grass
Ch. 222 · 📍 [[battery]]
[[colonel]]
the colonel had been killed
Ch. 222 · 📍 [[battery]]
[[soldier]]
the soldier shouting “Brothers!” was a prisoner
Ch. 222 · 📍 [[battery]]
[[anotherman]]
another man had been bayoneted in the back before his eyes
Ch. 222 · 📍 [[battery]]
[[French]] [[Russiansoldiers]]
The French who had occupied the battery fled, and our troops shouting “Hurrah!” pursued them so far beyond the battery
Ch. 222 · 📍 [[battery]]
[[woundedFrenchgeneral]]
The prisoners were brought down from the battery and among them was a wounded French general
Chapters 223–231
Ch. 223 · 📍 [[Borodinó]]
Borodinó had been occupied and the bridge over the Kolochá was in the hands of the French.
Ch. 223 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · before that order was given
the bridge had been retaken by the Russians and burned
Ch. 224
He knew that it was a lost battle and that the least accident might now—with the fight balanced on such a strained center—destroy him and his army.
Ch. 224
The news that the Russians were attacking the left flank of the French army aroused that horror in Napoleon.
Ch. 225 · At eleven o’clock
At eleven o’clock they brought him news that the flèches captured by the French had been retaken, but that Prince Bagratión was wounded.
Ch. 225 · At eleven o’clock
At eleven o’clock they brought him news that the flèches captured by the French had been retaken, but that Prince Bagratión was wounded.
Ch. 225 · Soon after the duke’s departure
Kutúzov Duke of Württemberg Dokhtúrov
Kutúzov made a grimace and sent an order to Dokhtúrov to take over the command of the first army, and a request to the duke—whom he said he could not spare at such an important moment—to return to him.
Ch. 225 · When they brought him news
When they brought him news that Murat had been taken prisoner, and the staff officers congratulated him, Kutúzov smiled.
Ch. 225 · 📍 [[Semënovsk]] · When Scherbínin came galloping from the left flank
the French had captured the flèches and the village of Semënovsk
Ch. 225 · tomorrow
Kutúzov Barclay de Tolly Wolzogen
Tell General Barclay from me that his information is incorrect and that the real course of the battle is better known to me, the commander in chief, than to him.
Ch. 226 · 📍 [[Semënovsk]] · Toward two o’clock
Toward two o’clock the regiment, having already lost more than two hundred men, was moved forward into a trampled oatfield
Ch. 226
From the right side of his abdomen, blood was welling out making a large stain on the grass.
Ch. 226
They again took him by the shoulders and laid him on the stretcher.
Ch. 226
The militiamen carried Prince Andrew to the dressing station by the wood, where wagons were stationed.
Ch. 227
When he came to himself the splintered portions of his thighbone had been extracted, the torn flesh cut away, and the wound bandaged.
Ch. 227
The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on.
Ch. 227
In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kurágin.
Ch. 227
And suddenly a new unexpected memory from that realm of pure and loving childhood presented itself to him.
Ch. 228 · 📍 [[Semënovsk heights]] · this day
Napoleon had assented and had given orders that news should be brought to him of the effect those batteries produced.
Ch. 228 · 📍 [[Shevárdino knoll]] · now
“They want more!” croaked Napoleon frowning. “Let them have it!”
Ch. 229 · 📍 [[Borodinó]]
[[French]] [[Russians]]
But neither the French nor the Russians made that effort, and the flame of battle burned slowly out.
Ch. 229 · 📍 [[Borodinó]]
[[Russianarmy]]
But even had the aim of the Russians been to drive the French from their positions, they could not have made this last effort, for all the Russian troops had been broken up, there was no part of the Russian army that had not suffered in the battle, and though still holding their positions they had lost ONE HALF of their army.
Ch. 229 · 📍 [[Borodinó]]
[[Russians]]
The moral force of the attacking French army was exhausted. Not that sort of victory which is defined by the capture of pieces of material fastened to sticks, called standards, and of the ground on which the troops had stood and were standing, but a moral victory that convinces the enemy of the moral superiority of his opponent and of his own impotence was gained by the Russians at Borodinó.
Ch. 229 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
The direct consequence of the battle of Borodinó was Napoleon’s senseless flight from Moscow, his retreat along the old Smolénsk road, the destruction of the invading army of five hundred thousand men, and the downfall of Napoleonic France, on which at Borodinó for the first time the hand of an opponent of stronger spirit had been laid.
Ch. 229
[[invadingarmy]] [[NapoleonicFrance]]
The direct consequence of the battle of Borodinó was Napoleon’s senseless flight from Moscow, his retreat along the old Smolénsk road, the destruction of the invading army of five hundred thousand men, and the downfall of Napoleonic France, on which at Borodinó for the first time the hand of an opponent of stronger spirit had been laid.
Ch. 230 · The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe
The sum of human wills produced the Revolution and Napoleon, and only the sum of those wills first tolerated and then destroyed them.
Ch. 231 · 📍 [[Málo-Yaroslávets]]
then suddenly, with no fresh reason, fled back: they made a dash for the Kalúga road, and (after a victory—for at Málo-Yaroslávets the field of conflict again remained theirs)
Ch. 231 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · On the evening of the twenty-sixth of August
Kutúzov and the whole Russian army were convinced that the battle of Borodinó was a victory. Kutúzov reported so to the Emperor. He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict
Ch. 231 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · the next day
But all that evening and next day reports came in one after another of unheard-of losses, of the loss of half the army, and a fresh battle proved physically impossible.
Ch. 231 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · on the first of September
at last, on the first of September when the army drew near Moscow—despite the strength of the feeling that had arisen in all ranks—the force of circumstances compelled it to retire beyond Moscow. And the troops retired one more, last, day’s march, and abandoned Moscow to the enemy.
Chapters 232–243
Ch. 232 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Moscow must be abandoned. The army must retreat and the order to do so must be given.
Ch. 232 · 📍 [[Poklónny Hill]] · On the Poklónny Hill
Bennigsen, who had chosen the position, warmly displayed his Russian patriotism (Kutúzov could not listen to this without wincing) by insisting that Moscow must be defended.
Ch. 232 · 📍 [[Poklónny Hill]] · On the Poklónny Hill
He called the most important generals to him.
Ch. 233 · 📍 [[Andrew Savostyánov’s hut]] · the following day
he proposed to move troops from the right to the left flank during the night and attack the French right flank the following day.
Ch. 233 · 📍 [[Andrew Savostyánov’s hut]]
Kutúzov, “I cannot approve of the count’s plan.
Ch. 233 · 📍 [[Andrew Savostyánov’s hut]]
by the authority entrusted to me by my Sovereign and country, order a retreat.
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · in 1812
namely the evacuation and burning of Moscow,
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and thirty-six of them removed the balloon that was being constructed by Leppich;
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Count Rostopchín Father Augustin
now forbade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints;
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Count Rostopchín Madame Aubert-Chalmé
now expelled all the French residents from Moscow, and now allowed Madame Aubert-Chalmé (the center of the whole French colony in Moscow) to remain
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
but ordered the venerable old postmaster Klyucharëv to be arrested and exiled for no particular offense;
Ch. 234 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
and now, to get rid of them, handed over to them a man to be killed and himself drove away by a back gate;
Ch. 235 · One day
One day he took the countess to a Roman Catholic church, where she knelt down before the altar to which she was led.
Ch. 235 · After that
After that a long-frocked abbé was brought to her. She confessed to him, and he absolved her from her sins.
Ch. 235 · Next day
Next day she received a box containing the Sacred Host, which was left at her house for her to partake of.
Ch. 235 · A few days later
A few days later Hélène learned with pleasure that she had now been admitted to the true Catholic Church
Ch. 235 · at this time
before parting with her money insisted that the various operations necessary to free her from her husband should be performed.
Ch. 236 · early one morning
She consulted a Russian priest as to the possibility of divorce and remarriage during a husband’s lifetime, and the priest told her that it was impossible
Ch. 236 · 📍 [[Pierre’s house]] · By the beginning of August
By the beginning of August Hélène’s affairs were clearly defined and she wrote a letter to her husband—who, as she imagined, loved her very much—informing him of her intention to marry N.N. and of her having embraced the one true faith, and asking him to carry out all the formalities necessary for a divorce
Ch. 237 · 📍 [[Borodinó]] · Toward the end of the battle of Borodinó
I came to the battle and have lost them.
Ch. 237 · 📍 [[Mozháysk]] · In the total darkness
In the total darkness the soldiers walked with Pierre to Mozháysk.
Ch. 238 · On the way
On the way Pierre was told of the death of his brother-in-law Anatole and of that of Prince Andrew.
Ch. 239 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Count Rostopchín Vasílchikov Plátov
Vasílchikov and Plátov had already seen the count and explained to him that it was impossible to defend Moscow and that it would have to be surrendered.
Ch. 239
He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe. Now the father has come to intercede for him.
Ch. 240
I beg you to leave the town and break off all communication with such men as Klyucharëv.
Ch. 240 · the next morning
Pierre dressed hurriedly and, instead of going to see them, went to the back porch and out through the gate.
Ch. 240 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow
From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezúkhov’s household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was.
Ch. 241 · 📍 [[Bélaya Tsérkov]]
After Pétya had joined Obolénski’s regiment of Cossacks and left for Bélaya Tsérkov where that regiment was forming
Ch. 241 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · After many consultations and conversations
Count Ilyá Rostóv Pétya Rostóv Pierre
He got Pétya transferred from Obolénski’s regiment to Bezúkhov’s, which was in training near Moscow.
Ch. 241 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On the twenty-eighth of August
On the twenty-eighth of August he arrived.
Ch. 242 · 📍 [[Povarskáya Street]]
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostóvs’ yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskáya Street.
Ch. 242 · 📍 [[Three Hills]] · tomorrow
He said the people had been getting arms in the Krémlin, and that though Rostopchín’s broadsheet had said that he would sound a call two or three days in advance, the order had certainly already been given for everyone to go armed to the Three Hills tomorrow, and that there would be a big battle there.
Ch. 243 · After dinner
Natásha Pétya Rostóv Sónya Vasílich
Thanks to Natásha’s directions the work now went on expeditiously, unnecessary things were left, and the most valuable packed as compactly as possible.
Ch. 243 · That night
Mávra Kuzmínichna Prince Andrew
But they had to avoid carrying the man upstairs, and so they took him into the wing and put him in the room that had been Madame Schoss’. This wounded man was Prince Andrew Bolkónski.
Chapters 244–257
Ch. 244 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that morning
The count went into the house with him, repeating his order not to refuse the wounded who asked for a lift.
Ch. 245 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
“Papa! Mamma! May I see to it? May I?...” asked Natásha. “We will still take all the most necessary things.” The count nodded affirmatively
Ch. 245 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
When they understood that order the servants set to work at this new task with pleasure and zeal.
Ch. 246 · Before two o’clock in the afternoon
The wounded prince: he spent the night in our house and is going with us.
Ch. 247 · 📍 [[Torzhók estate]]
Owing to the present state of things Sophia Danílovna has gone to the Torzhók estate with the children, your excellency.
Ch. 247 · For the last two days, ever since leaving home
For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdéev.
Ch. 248 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Two hours passed
Those sent to fetch the deputation had returned with the news that Moscow was empty, that everyone had left it.
Ch. 248 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · At last
A single report of a signaling gun followed, and the troops, who were already spread out on different sides of Moscow, moved into the city through the Tver, Kalúga, and Dorogomílov gates.
Ch. 249 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · when Napoleon was informed
When with due circumspection Napoleon was informed that Moscow was empty, he looked angrily at his informant, turned away, and silently continued to walk to and fro.
Ch. 250 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · from two o’clock at night till two in the afternoon
[[Russiantroops]] [[wounded]] [[lastoftheinhabitants]]
The Russian troops were passing through Moscow from two o’clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving.
Ch. 250 · 📍 [[Red Square]]
[[soldiers]]
a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasíli the Beatified and under the Borovítski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.
Ch. 250 · 📍 [[Moskvá bridge]]
[[GeneralErmólov]] [[crowd]] [[troops]]
General Ermólov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge. The crowd, crushing one another, upsetting carts, and shouting and squeezing desperately, had cleared off the bridge and the troops were now moving forward.
Ch. 251 · yesterday at vespertime
They have gone away, sir. Went away yesterday at vespertime,
Ch. 251
Mávra Kuzmínichna [[youngofficer]]
Mávra Kuzmínichna appeared from behind the corner of the house with a frightened yet resolute look, carrying a rolled-up check kerchief in her hand. While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[Varvárka]]
[[publican]] [[factoryhands]] [[blacksmiths]]
The blacksmiths from a neighboring smithy, hearing the sounds of revelry in the tavern and supposing it to have been broken into, wished to force their way in too and a fight in the porch had resulted.
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[Varvárka]]
[[talllad]] [[smith]]
The lad with the turned-up sleeve gave the smith a blow in the face and cried wildly: “They’re fighting us, lads!”
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[Varvárka]]
[[bloodstainedsmith]] [[crowd]]
“Police! Murder!... They’ve killed a man, lads!”
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[Varvárka]]
[[publican]]
The publican, taking advantage of the increased crowd, dropped behind and returned to his tavern.
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[China-Town]]
[[shopmaninthefriezecoat]] [[crowd]]
The man in the frieze coat was reading the broadsheet of August 31.
Ch. 252 · that morning
[[superintendentofpolice]] [[crowd]] Count Rostopchín
“The count has not left, he is here, and an order will be issued concerning you,” said the superintendent of police.
Ch. 252 · 📍 [[Lubyánka Street]]
[[crowd]] [[superintendentofpolice]]
“Don’t let him go, lads! Let him answer us! Keep him!” shouted different people and the people dashed in pursuit of the trap.
Ch. 253 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · soon after midnight
This letter requested the count to send police officers to guide the troops through the town, as the army was retreating to the Ryazán road beyond Moscow.
Ch. 253 · All night long
They have horses, let them be off to Vladímir, and not leave them to the French.
Ch. 253 · All night long
My commands? Let them go away, that’s all.... And let the lunatics out into the town.
Ch. 253 · All night long
Do you expect me to give you two battalions—which we have not got—for a convoy? Release them, that’s all about it!
Ch. 253 · All night long
“Vereshchágin! Hasn’t he been hanged yet?” shouted Rostopchín. “Bring him to me!”
Ch. 254 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Toward nine o’clock in the morning
Theodore Vasílyevich Rostopchín Vereshchágin
“Deal with him as you think fit! I hand him over to you.”
Ch. 254 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Only when the victim ceased to struggle and his cries changed to a long-drawn, measured death rattle did the crowd around his prostrate, bleeding corpse begin rapidly to change places.
Ch. 254 · 📍 [[Sokólniki]] · that night
Theodore Vasílyevich Rostopchín
He hastily took his seat and told the coachman to drive him to his country house in Sokólniki.
Ch. 254 · 📍 [[Yaúza bridge]] · Half an hour later
Theodore Vasílyevich Rostopchín Kutúzov
“No! I shall not give up Moscow without a battle!”
Ch. 255 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
[[Rostopchíne]] Napoleon
Moscow was burned by its inhabitants, it is true, but by those who had abandoned it and not by those who remained in it.
Ch. 256
He paused and then suddenly seeing the pistol on the table seized it with unexpected rapidity and ran out into the corridor.
Ch. 257
Makár Alexéevich M. Ramballe Pierre
With a madman’s cunning, Makár Alexéevich eyed the Frenchman, raised his pistol, and took aim. “Board them!” yelled the tipsy man, trying to press the trigger. Hearing the yell the officer turned round, and at the same moment Pierre threw himself on the drunkard. Just when Pierre snatched at and struck up the pistol Makár Alexéevich at last got his fingers on the trigger, there was a deafening report, and all were enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
Ch. 257
Pierre M. Ramballe Makár Alexéevich
“You have saved my life! You are French. You ask his pardon? I grant it you. Lead that man away!” said he quickly and energetically
Chapters 258–270
Ch. 258 · 📍 [[Poland]]
The captain was happy, the enchanting Polish lady wished to elope with him, but, prompted by magnanimity, the captain restored the wife to the husband
Ch. 259 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · in the darkness of the night
“Who’s to put it out?” Daniel Teréntich, who had hitherto been silent, was heard to say. His voice was calm and deliberate. “Moscow it is, brothers,” said he. “Mother Moscow, the white...” his voice faltered, and he gave way to an old man’s sob.
Ch. 260 · that morning
Sónya, to the surprise and annoyance of the countess, had for some unaccountable reason found it necessary to tell Natásha of Prince Andrew’s wound and of his being with their party.
Ch. 260 · that morning
From the moment she had been told that morning of Prince Andrew’s wound and his presence there, Natásha had resolved to see him.
Ch. 260 · that night
She went up to him and with a swift, flexible, youthful movement dropped on her knees. He smiled and held out his hand to her.
Ch. 261 · on the seventh day
But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower.
Ch. 261
“I love you,” said Prince Andrew. “Forgive...!” “Forgive what?” he asked. “Forgive me for what I ha-ve do-ne!” faltered Natásha in a scarcely audible, broken whisper, and began kissing his hand more rapidly, just touching it with her lips. “I love you more, better than before,” said Prince Andrew, lifting her face with his hand so as to look into her eyes.
Ch. 261 · during all the rest of the Rostóvs’ journey
From that time, during all the rest of the Rostóvs’ journey, at every halting place and wherever they spent a night, Natásha never left the wounded Bolkónski
Ch. 262 · the evening before
We seized the children. But not Katie! Ooh! O Lord!...
Ch. 263 · 📍 [[Gruzínski garden]]
“Here, take the child!” said Pierre peremptorily and hurriedly to the woman, handing the little girl to her.
Ch. 263 · 📍 [[Gruzínski garden]]
“Let that woman alone!” exclaimed Pierre hoarsely in a furious voice, seizing the soldier by his round shoulders and throwing him aside.
Ch. 263 · 📍 [[Zúbov Rampart]] · for the night
When they had all been brought for the night to a large house on the Zúbov Rampart that was being used as a guardhouse, Pierre was placed apart under strict guard.
Ch. 263 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
The French patrol was one of those sent out through the various streets of Moscow by Durosnel’s order to put a stop to the pillage, and especially to catch the incendiaries
Ch. 264 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · a few days previously
She had fallen ill unexpectedly a few days previously, had missed several gatherings of which she was usually the ornament, and was said to be receiving no one, and instead of the celebrated Petersburg doctors who usually attended her had entrusted herself to some Italian doctor who was treating her in some new and unusual way.
Ch. 264 · 📍 [[Vienna]]
a diplomatic note that had been sent to Vienna with some Austrian banners captured from the French by Wittgenstein
Ch. 265 · 📍 [[Tatárinova]] · Next day
Prince Volkónski was called out of the church and received a dispatch from Prince Kutúzov. It was Kutúzov’s report, written from Tatárinova on the day of the battle. Kutúzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information. It followed that there must have been a victory.
Ch. 265 · toward evening
Countess Hélène Bezúkhova had suddenly died of that terrible malady it had been so agreeable to mention.
Ch. 265 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On the third day after Kutúzov’s report
On the third day after Kutúzov’s report a country gentleman arrived from Moscow, and news of the surrender of Moscow to the French spread through the whole town.
Ch. 265 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On receiving this dispatch
On receiving this dispatch the Emperor sent Prince Volkónski to Kutúzov with the following rescript:
Ch. 267 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
As he looked at the matter in this way, he learned that he was being sent to Vorónezh to buy remounts for his division
Ch. 267 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]] · A few days before the battle of Borodinó
A few days before the battle of Borodinó, Nicholas received the necessary money and warrants, and having sent some hussars on in advance, he set out with post horses for Vorónezh.
Ch. 267
In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles—to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.
Ch. 267 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
he felt at once that he had entered into his proper position in the province—that of a universal favorite: a very pleasant position, and intoxicatingly so after his long privations.
Ch. 268 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
And it must needs happen that I should meet her just when Natásha’s engagement had been broken off...
Ch. 268 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
You know Sónya, my cousin? I love her, and promised to marry her, and will do so....
Ch. 268 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
I will make a match for you with the princess. Catherine Petróvna speaks of Lily, but I say, no—the princess!
Ch. 268 · 📍 [[Vorónezh]]
In the first place I like her very much, I feel drawn to her; and then, after I met her under such circumstances—so strangely, the idea often occurred to me: ‘This is fate.’
Ch. 269 · on Sunday after church
With a softened, happy, timid look she watched the boy she loved in the arms of the man she loved.
Ch. 269 · 📍 [[the bishop’s house]] · before Mass
For this purpose she arranged a meeting between the young people at the bishop’s house before Mass.
Ch. 269
Though Rostóv told the governor’s wife that he would not make any declaration to Princess Mary, he promised to go.
Ch. 270 · 📍 [[Tróitsa]] · That evening
This unexpected and, as it seemed to Nicholas, quite voluntary letter from Sónya freed him from the knot that fettered him and from which there had seemed no escape.
Ch. 270 · 📍 [[Tróitsa]] · That evening
Prince Andrew Princess Mary Nicholas Rostóv
Prince Andrew was among the wounded traveling with them; his state was very critical, but the doctor said there was now more hope.
Ch. 270 · Next day
Next day Nicholas took his mother’s letter and went to see Princess Mary. Neither he nor she said a word about what “Natásha nursing him” might mean, but thanks to this letter Nicholas suddenly became almost as intimate with the princess as if they were relations.
Chapters 271–280
Ch. 271 · a few days before they left Moscow
Sónya burst into hysterical tears and replied through her sobs that she would do anything and was prepared for anything, but gave no actual promise
Ch. 271 · 📍 [[Tróitsa monastery]] · that day
Sónya, dovey, everything is as it used to be.
Ch. 271 · 📍 [[Tróitsa monastery]] · that day
“Yes, Mamma, I will write,” said she.
Ch. 271 · 📍 [[Tróitsa monastery]] · that day
So with a joyful consciousness of performing a magnanimous deed—interrupted several times by the tears that dimmed her velvety black eyes—she wrote that touching letter the arrival of which had so amazed Nicholas.
Ch. 272 · next morning
In spite of this he was placed that day with the other arrested suspects, as the separate room he had occupied was required by an officer.
Ch. 272 · That evening
That evening he learned that all these prisoners (he, probably, among them) were to be tried for incendiarism.
Ch. 272 · On the third day
On the third day he was taken with the others to a house where a French general with a white mustache sat with two colonels and other Frenchmen with scarves on their arms.
Ch. 272 · 📍 [[Zúbovski rampart]] · On the fourth day
On the fourth day fires broke out on the Zúbovski rampart.
Ch. 272 · 📍 [[Crimean bridge]] · On the fourth day
Pierre and thirteen others were moved to the coach house of a merchant’s house near the Crimean bridge.
Ch. 273 · 📍 [[Virgin’s Field]] · On the eighth of September
called over all the Russians there, naming Pierre as “the man who does not give his name.” Glancing indolently and indifferently at all the prisoners, he ordered the officer in charge to have them decently dressed and tidied up before taking them to the marshal.
Ch. 273 · 📍 [[Prince Shcherbátov’s house]]
This was Prince Shcherbátov’s house, where Pierre had often been in other days, and which, as he learned from the talk of the soldiers, was now occupied by the marshal, the Duke of Eckmühl (Davout).
Ch. 274 · 📍 [[Virgin’s Field]]
Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post. Pierre turned away to avoid seeing what was going to happen. Suddenly a crackling, rolling noise was heard which seemed to him louder than the most terrific thunder, and he looked round. There was some smoke, and the Frenchmen were doing something near the pit, with pale faces and trembling hands. Two more prisoners were led up. In the same way and with similar looks, these two glanced vainly at the onlookers with only a silent appeal for protection in their eyes, evidently unable to understand or believe what was going to happen to them.
Ch. 274 · 📍 [[Virgin’s Field]]
Probably a word of command was given and was followed by the reports of eight muskets; but try as he would Pierre could not afterwards remember having heard the slightest sound of the shots. He only saw how the workman suddenly sank down on the cords that held him, how blood showed itself in two places, how the ropes slackened under the weight of the hanging body, and how the workman sat down, his head hanging unnaturally and one leg bent under him. Pierre ran up to the post. No one hindered him. Pale, frightened people were doing something around the workman. The lower jaw of an old Frenchman with a thick mustache trembled as he untied the ropes. The body collapsed. The soldiers dragged it awkwardly from the post and began pushing it into the pit.
Ch. 274 · 📍 [[Virgin’s Field]]
Pierre did not understand that he was saved, that he and the rest had been brought there only to witness the execution.
Ch. 275 · Toward evening
told him that he had been pardoned and would now go to the barracks for the prisoners of war.
Ch. 275 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · last Sunday
I? It was last Sunday they took me, out of a hospital in Moscow.
Ch. 275 · before I went as a soldier
We had a little girl, but God took her before I went as a soldier.
Ch. 275
If it had not been for my sin, my brother would have had to go as a soldier.
Ch. 276 · 📍 [[shed]] · for four weeks
Twenty-three soldiers, three officers, and two officials were confined in the shed in which Pierre had been placed and where he remained for four weeks.
Ch. 276
Having been taken prisoner and allowed his beard to grow, he seemed to have thrown off all that had been forced upon him—everything military and alien to himself—and had returned to his former peasant habits.
Ch. 277 · 📍 [[Yaroslávl]] · by the end of the second week
Princess Mary [[littleNicholas]] Prince Andrew
Thanks to her activity and energy, which infected her fellow travelers, they approached Yaroslávl by the end of the second week.
Ch. 277 · 📍 [[Yaroslávl]] · that very evening
“Then he is alive,” thought Princess Mary, and asked in a low voice: “How is he?” “The servants say he is still the same.”
Ch. 277 · 📍 [[Yaroslávl]] · Two days ago
Princess Mary Natásha Prince Andrew
“But two days ago this suddenly happened,” said Natásha, struggling with her sobs. “I don’t know why, but you will see what he is like.”
Ch. 277 · 📍 [[Yaroslávl]] · When they reached Yaroslávl
When they reached Yaroslávl the wound had begun to fester (Natásha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. Then fever set in, but the doctor had said the fever was not very serious.
Ch. 278 · two days ago
She understood those words to mean that he had suddenly softened and that this softening and gentleness were signs of approaching death.
Ch. 278
Prince Andrew Princess Mary Natásha
In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive.
Ch. 278 · When Princess Mary had left Prince Andrew
She did not speak any more to Natásha of hopes of saving his life. She took turns with her beside his sofa, and did not cry any more, but prayed continually
Ch. 278 · After that day
[[littleNicholas]] Princess Mary Natásha
After that he avoided Dessalles and the countess who caressed him and either sat alone or came timidly to Princess Mary, or to Natásha of whom he seemed even fonder than of his aunt, and clung to them quietly and shyly.
Ch. 279 · It was evening
“Natásha, I love you too much! More than anything in the world.” “And I!”—She turned away for an instant.
Ch. 279 · From that day
From that day, as the doctor expressed it, the wasting fever assumed a malignant character
Ch. 279 · at the very instant he died
And all at once it grew light in his soul and the veil that had till then concealed the unknown was lifted from his spiritual vision.
Ch. 279 · When the last convulsions of the body, which the spirit was leaving, occurred
Natásha went up, looked at the dead eyes, and hastened to close them.
Ch. 279 · When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table
When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table, everyone came to take leave of him and they all wept. Little Nicholas cried because his heart was rent by painful perplexity.
Ch. 280 · 📍 [[Filí]] · At the council at Filí
[[Russiancommanders]]
the majority of the council voted for such a retreat
Ch. 280 · 📍 [[Filí]] · after the council
[[Lanskóy]] [[commanderinchief]]
Lanskóy informed the commander in chief that the army supplies were for the most part stored along the Oká in the Túla and Ryazán provinces
Ch. 280 · 📍 [[Ryazán road]] · Subsequently
[[Russianarmy]]
The army turned more to the south, along the Ryazán road and nearer to its supplies.
Ch. 280 · 📍 [[Túla road]] · Subsequently
[[Russianarmy]]
caused the army to turn still further south to the Túla road.
Ch. 280 · 📍 [[Tarútino]] · when the army had got there
[[Russianarmy]]
obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Túla to the Kalúga road and go to Tarútino
Chapters 281–289
Ch. 281
I should be cursed by posterity were I looked on as the initiator of a settlement of any sort.
Ch. 282
Besides this, the whole staff of the Russian army was now reorganized.
Ch. 282
Prince Michael Ilariónovich! (wrote the Emperor on the second of October in a letter that reached Kutúzov after the battle at Tarútino)
Ch. 282 · 📍 [[Tarútino]]
Kutúzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place.
Ch. 282 · On the second of October
Following the wounded hare he made his way far into the forest and came upon the left flank of Murat’s army, encamped there without any precautions.
Ch. 282 · a few days previously
Ermólov had been to see Bennigsen a few days previously and had entreated him to use his influence with the commander in chief to induce him to take the offensive.
Ch. 282
Kutúzov General Bennigsen Shapoválov Murat
The Cossack’s report, confirmed by horse patrols who were sent out, was the final proof that events had matured.
Ch. 283 · for the fifth of October
Bennigsen’s note and the Cossack’s information that the left flank of the French was unguarded were merely final indications that it was necessary to order an attack, and it was fixed for the fifth of October.
Ch. 283 · 📍 [[Échkino]] · past eight o’clock
Ermólov came forward with a frown on his face and, hearing what the officer had to say, took the papers from him without a word.
Ch. 283 · 📍 [[Échkino]] · that evening
“You think he went off just by chance?” said a comrade, who was on the staff that evening, to the officer of the Horse Guards, referring to Ermólov. “It was a trick. It was done on purpose to get Konovnítsyn into trouble. You’ll see what a mess there’ll be tomorrow.”
Ch. 284 · 📍 [[Tarútino]]
He sent for an officer. The officer reported that no order to advance had been received.
Ch. 284 · next day
Kutúzov General Bennigsen Konovnítsyn Toll
and to the insistence of Bennigsen, Konovnítsyn, and Toll that the movement that had miscarried should be executed next day. And once more Kutúzov had to consent.
Ch. 285 · Toward dawn
“Fetch them back, fetch them back!” said Count Orlóv with sudden determination, looking at his watch.
Ch. 285 · Toward dawn
“Mount!” he commanded in a whisper. The men took their places and crossed themselves.... “Forward, with God’s aid!”
Ch. 285 · Toward dawn
Fifteen hundred prisoners and thirty-eight guns were taken on the spot, besides standards and (what seemed most important to the Cossacks) horses, saddles, horsecloths, and the like.
Ch. 285
Orlóv-Denísov, still waiting for the other columns to arrive, advanced no further.
Ch. 285
the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.
Ch. 286 · 📍 [[Tarútino]]
The whole battle consisted in what Orlóv-Denísov’s Cossacks had done:
Ch. 286 · 📍 [[Tarútino]] · In consequence of this battle
In consequence of this battle Kutúzov received a diamond decoration
Ch. 286 · 📍 [[Tarútino]] · following the battle
and following the battle fresh changes were made in the staff.
Ch. 286 · 📍 [[Tarútino]]
the transition from retreat to advance, an exposure of the weakness of the French, and the administration of that shock
Ch. 287 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa
Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa;
Ch. 287 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Moscow, abounding in provisions, arms, munitions, and incalculable wealth, is in Napoleon’s hands.
Ch. 287 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · till October
He remained in Moscow till October, letting the troops plunder the city;
Ch. 287 · 📍 [[Mozháysk]]
but retiring instead to Mozháysk along the devastated Smolénsk road.
Ch. 288 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · immediately on his entry into Moscow
Napoleon Sabastiani Murat Kutúzov
Napoleon immediately on his entry into Moscow gave General Sabastiani strict orders to observe the movements of the Russian army, sent army corps out along the different roads, and charged Murat to find Kutúzov.
Ch. 288 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · immediately after the fires
immediately after the fires he gave orders to find and execute the incendiaries.
Ch. 288 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
And the scoundrel Rostopchín was punished by an order to burn down his houses.
Ch. 289
Tutólmin Yákovlev Emperor Alexander
Alexander did not receive these envoys and did not reply to their embassage.
Chapters 290–322
Ch. 291 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Four weeks had passed
Four weeks had passed since Pierre had been taken prisoner
Ch. 292
The sick soldier, Sokolóv, pale and thin with dark shadows round his eyes, alone sat in his place barefoot and not dressed. His eyes, prominent from the emaciation of his face, gazed inquiringly at his comrades who were paying no attention to him, and he moaned regularly and quietly. It was evidently not so much his sufferings that caused him to moan (he had dysentery) as his fear and grief at being left alone.
Ch. 294 · 📍 [[Formínsk]]
By a strange coincidence, this task, which turned out to be a most difficult and important one, was entrusted to Dokhtúrov
Ch. 295 · 📍 [[Litashëvka]] · after one o’clock at night
Bolkhovítinov Dokhtúrov Konovnítsyn
“From Dokhtúrov and from Alexéy Petróvich. Napoleon is at Formínsk,” said Bolkhovítinov
Ch. 297 · 📍 [[Málo-Yaroslávets]]
So it came about that at the council at Málo-Yaroslávets, when the generals pretending to confer together expressed various opinions, all mouths were closed by the opinion uttered by the simple-minded soldier Mouton who, speaking last, said what they all felt: that the one thing needful was to get away as quickly as possible; and no one, not even Napoleon, could say anything against that truth which they all recognized.
Ch. 299 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
But then, in 1812, the French gain a victory near Moscow. Moscow is taken
Ch. 299 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · after Moscow
After the French victory at Borodinó there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist.
Ch. 299 · from the battle of Borodinó to the expulsion of the French
The period of the campaign of 1812 from the battle of Borodinó to the expulsion of the French proved that the winning of a battle does not produce a conquest
Ch. 300 · 📍 [[the Caucasus]]
[[mountaintribes]]
by the mountain tribes in the Caucasus
Ch. 300 · in 1812
[[Russians]]
and by the Russians in 1812.
Ch. 300 · in 1812
[[French]]
The French, retreating in 1812—though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves—congregated into a mass
Ch. 300
[[Russians]] [[French]]
The Russians, on the contrary, ought according to tactics to have attacked in mass, but in fact they split up into small units, because their spirit had so risen that separate individuals, without orders, dealt blows at the French
Ch. 304 · next day
After talking for some time with the esaul about next day’s attack, which now, seeing how near they were to the French, he seemed to have definitely decided on
Ch. 304 · 📍 [[the forest]] · first thing at dawn
I took him first thing at dawn,” Tíkhon continued, spreading out his flat feet with outturned toes in their bast shoes. “I took him into the forest. Then I see he’s no good and think I’ll go and fetch a likelier one.
Ch. 305
Pétya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joined his regiment and was soon taken as orderly by a general commanding a large guerrilla detachment.
Ch. 305 · On the twenty-first of October
When on the twenty-first of October his general expressed a wish to send somebody to Denísov’s detachment, Pétya begged so piteously to be sent that the general could not refuse.
Ch. 306
whom Denísov had had some mutton and vodka given, and whom he had had dressed in a Russian coat so that he might be kept with their band and not sent away with the other prisoners.
Ch. 307
Having put on French greatcoats and shakos, Pétya and Dólokhov rode to the clearing from which Denísov had reconnoitered the French camp,
Ch. 308 · 📍 [[the watchman’s hut]]
Having returned to the watchman’s hut, Pétya found Denísov in the passage.
Ch. 308
Likhachëv got up, rummaged in his pack, and soon Pétya heard the warlike sound of steel on whetstone.
Ch. 312 · When the prisoners again went forward
When the prisoners again went forward Pierre looked round. Karatáev was still sitting at the side of the road under the birch tree and two Frenchmen were talking over his head. Pierre did not look round again but went limping up the hill. From behind, where Karatáev had been sitting, came the sound of a shot.
Ch. 314 · 📍 [[Vyázma]]
From Moscow to Vyázma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle.
Ch. 314 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]] · November 9
They are almost disbanded. Scarcely a quarter of the soldiers remain with the standards of their regiments, the others go off by themselves in different directions hoping to find food and escape discipline. In general they regard Smolénsk as the place where they hope to recover.
Ch. 314 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]]
After staggering into Smolénsk which seemed to them a promised land, the French, searching for food, killed one another, sacked their own stores, and when everything had been plundered fled farther.
Ch. 316 · 📍 [[Málo-Yaroslávets]]
The retreat from Málo-Yaroslávets when he had a free road into a well-supplied district and the parallel road was open to him along which Kutúzov afterwards pursued him—this unnecessary retreat along a devastated road—is explained to us as being due to profound considerations.
Ch. 316 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]]
Similarly profound considerations are given for his retreat from Smolénsk to Orshá.
Ch. 316
And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c’est grand,
Ch. 317 · when he received the plan
as in fact thought Kutúzov, who when he received the plan remarked that diversions planned over great distances do not yield the desired results.
Ch. 317 · 📍 [[Krásnoe]] · During the movement of the Russian army from Tarútino to Krásnoe
During the movement of the Russian army from Tarútino to Krásnoe it lost fifty thousand sick or stragglers
Ch. 318 · 📍 [[Yaroslávl]]
the room in which little Nicholas had been put was damp and he began to cough
Ch. 320 · When the news of Pétya’s death had come
The mother’s wounded spirit could not heal. Pétya’s death had torn from her half her life.
Ch. 321
Kutúzov as far as was in his power, instead of trying to check the movement of the French as was desired in Petersburg and by the Russian army generals, directed his whole activity here, as he had done at Tarútino and Vyázma, to hastening it on while easing the movement of our army.
Ch. 322 · In 1812 and 1813
In 1812 and 1813 Kutúzov was openly accused of blundering. The Emperor was dissatisfied with him.
Ch. 322 · 📍 [[Vílna]]
he alone—incurring thereby the Emperor’s displeasure—said in Vílna that to carry the war beyond the frontier is useless and harmful.
Chapters 323–359
Ch. 323 · 📍 [[Dóbroe]] · The fifth of November
Kutúzov left Krásnoe and went to Dóbroe whither his headquarters had that day been transferred.
Ch. 323 · 📍 [[Dóbroe]] · that day
All along the road groups of French prisoners captured that day (there were seven thousand of them) were crowding to warm themselves at campfires.
Ch. 324 · 📍 [[Tarútino]] · the eighth of November
[[infantryregiment]]
An infantry regiment which had left Tarútino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred
Ch. 326 · 📍 [[hut]]
They surrounded Ramballe, lifted him on the crossed arms of two soldiers, and carried him to the hut.
Ch. 326
When Morel had drunk some vodka and finished his bowl of porridge he suddenly became unnaturally merry and chattered incessantly to the soldiers
Ch. 328 · 📍 [[Vílna]] · on the following morning
“You have not only saved Russia, you have saved Europe!” they all understood that the war was not ended.
Ch. 328
Kutúzov Toll Konovnítsyn Ermólov Alexander I
his staff was gradually reconstructed and its real strength removed and transferred to the Emperor. Toll, Konovnítsyn, and Ermólov received fresh appointments.
Ch. 328 · now
now when his part was played out, Kutúzov’s place was taken by a new and necessary performer.
Ch. 328
Nothing remained for the representative of the national war but to die, and Kutúzov died.
Ch. 329 · On the day of his rescue
On the day of his rescue he had seen the body of Pétya Rostóv. That same day he had learned that Prince Andrew, after surviving the battle of Borodinó for more than a month had recently died in the Rostóvs’ house at Yaroslávl, and Denísov who told him this news also mentioned Hélène’s death, supposing that Pierre had heard of it long before.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · after the departure of the French
[[Russians]] [[French]]
what caused the Russians after the departure of the French to throng to the place that had formerly been Moscow
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Within a week
[[Russians]]
Within a week Moscow already had fifteen thousand inhabitants
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · Within a week
[[authorities]] [[peasants]]
Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the corpses out of the town.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
[[tradesmen]] [[clergy]]
Tradesmen began trading in booths. Cookshops and taverns were opened in partially burned houses. The clergy resumed the services in many churches that had not been burned.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
[[higherauthorities]] [[police]]
The higher authorities and the police organized the distribution of goods left behind by the French.
Ch. 332
The death, sufferings, and last days of Prince Andrew had often occupied Pierre’s thoughts
Ch. 333
“She has come to stay with me,” said Princess Mary. “The count and countess will be here in a few days.
Ch. 334
Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife’s debts and to rebuild his houses
Ch. 338 · during 1812
his struggle with Napoleon, the firmness he displayed in 1812
Ch. 352 · December 4
Andrúsha Princess Mary Mademoiselle Louise
then he jumped out of bed, ran to me in his shirt, and sobbed so that I could not calm him for a long time.
Ch. 352 · 5
Papa said he was to have no pudding. He had none, but looked so unhappily and greedily at the others while they were eating!
Ch. 355 · the campaign of 1812
as soon as they have to describe an actual historic event such as the campaign of 1812 for instance, they involuntarily describe it as resulting from an exercise of power—and say plainly that that was the result of Napoleon’s will.
Ch. 359 · 📍 [[Russia]] · for the campaign of 1812
Amid a long series of unexecuted orders of Napoleon’s one series, for the campaign of 1812, was carried out
1813 (126 events)
Chapters 288–303
Ch. 288 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow à la maraude * to obtain provisions for themselves
Ch. 288 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
he ordered his soldiers to be paid in forged Russian money which he had prepared
Ch. 289 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
But the most amazing example of the ineffectiveness of the orders given by the authorities at that time was Napoleon’s attempt to stop the looting and re-establish discipline.
Ch. 289 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
The news of that battle of Tarútino, unexpectedly received by Napoleon at a review, evoked in him a desire to punish the Russians (Thiers says), and he issued the order for departure which the whole army was demanding.
Ch. 290 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · that day
nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day.
Ch. 290 · a few days before
a fight between the prisoners and the French soldiers, in which Pierre had succeeded in pacifying his comrades.
Ch. 291 · soon after his arrival at the shed
here among these people gave him almost the status of a hero.
Ch. 292
The officer prisoners were separated from the soldiers and told to march in front. There were about thirty officers, with Pierre among them, and about three hundred men.
Ch. 292 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
“Oh, oh, oh! What have they done?” the prisoners on one side and another were heard saying as they gazed on the charred ruins. “All beyond the river, and Zúbova, and in the Krémlin.... Just look! There’s not half of it left. Yes, I told you—the whole quarter beyond the river, and so it is.”
Ch. 292 · 📍 [[Khamóvniki]]
Pierre too drew near the church where the thing was that evoked these exclamations, and dimly made out something leaning against the palings surrounding the church. From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot.
Ch. 293 · 📍 [[Kalúga road]] · nearly evening
Pierre [[theprisoners]]
It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kalúga road.
Ch. 293 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · during the halt
[[oneRussiansoldier]] [[theprisoners]]
It was here that the prisoners for the first time received horseflesh for their meat ration. From the officer down to the lowest soldier they showed what seemed like personal spite against each of the prisoners, in unexpected contrast to their former friendly relations. This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped.
Ch. 293 · during this halt
[[theprisoners]] [[Frenchsoldiers]]
During this halt the escort treated the prisoners even worse than they had done at the start. It was here that the prisoners for the first time received horseflesh for their meat ration.
Ch. 293 · during this halt
[[Frenchsoldiers]] [[theprisoners]]
To the noncommissioned officer’s excuse that the prisoner was ill and could not walk, the officer replied that the order was to shoot those who lagged behind.
Ch. 293 · The evening was ending, but the night had not yet come
Pierre [[aFrenchsentinel]]
On the road he was stopped by a French sentinel who ordered him back.
Ch. 294 · 📍 [[Aristóvo]] · On the evening of October 11
On the evening of October 11 Seslávin came to the Aristóvo headquarters with a French guardsman he had captured. The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Formínsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously.
Ch. 295 · 📍 [[Litashëvka]] · that night
Hardly had he done so before he lowered his legs in their woolen stockings to the earthen floor and began putting on his boots.
Ch. 296 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · On the night of the eleventh of October
“Eh? That Napoleon has left Moscow? Are you sure? Eh?”
Ch. 297 · 📍 [[Smolénsk road]] · The day after the council at Málo-Yaroslávets
Napoleon with his forty-year-old stomach understood that hint, not feeling his former agility and boldness, and under the influence of the fright the Cossacks had given him he at once agreed with Mouton and issued orders—as the historians tell us—to retreat by the Smolénsk road.
Ch. 298
Kutúzov alone used all his power (and such power is very limited in the case of any commander in chief) to prevent an attack.
Ch. 298 · 📍 [[Vyázma]]
Ermólov Milorádovich Plátov Kutúzov
Ermólov, Milorádovich, Plátov, and others in proximity to the French near Vyázma could not resist their desire to cut off and break up two French corps, and by way of reporting their intention to Kutúzov they sent him a blank sheet of paper in an envelope.
Ch. 298
And try as Kutúzov might to restrain the troops, our men attacked, trying to bar the road.
Ch. 298 · 📍 [[Smolénsk]]
But they did not cut off or overthrow anybody and the French army, closing up more firmly at the danger, continued, while steadily melting away, to pursue its fatal path to Smolénsk.
Ch. 300 · 📍 [[Spain]]
[[guerrillas]]
This was done by the guerrillas in Spain
Ch. 301 · 📍 [[Mikúlino]] · That morning
That morning, Cossacks of Denísov’s party had seized and carried off into the forest two wagons loaded with cavalry saddles
Ch. 301 · 📍 [[Shámshevo]] · That morning
That morning’s attack on the wagons had been made so hastily that the Frenchmen with the wagons had all been killed; only a little drummer boy had been taken alive, and as he was a straggler he could tell them nothing definite about the troops in that column. Denísov considered it dangerous to make a second attack for fear of putting the whole column on the alert, so he sent Tíkhon Shcherbáty, a peasant of his party, to Shámshevo to try and seize at least one of the French quartermasters who had been sent on in advance.
Ch. 302
“From the general,” said the officer. “Please excuse its not being quite dry.”
Ch. 302
“Oh, please... May I stay with you?” cried Pétya. “But, just what did the genewal tell you? To weturn at once?” asked Denísov. Pétya blushed. “He gave me no instructions. I think I could?” he returned, inquiringly. “Well, all wight,” said Denísov.
Ch. 302 · 📍 [[Shámshevo]] · next day
Denísov himself intended going with the esaul and Pétya to the edge of the forest where it reached out to Shámshevo, to have a look at the part of the French bivouac they were to attack next day.
Ch. 303 · 📍 [[Pokróvsk]] · Next day
Next day when Denísov had left Pokróvsk, having quite forgotten about this peasant, it was reported to him that Tíkhon had attached himself to their party and asked to be allowed to remain with it. Denísov gave orders to let him do so.
Ch. 303 · soon
Denísov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks.
Ch. 303 · Once
Once a Frenchman Tíkhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back.
Ch. 303 · 📍 [[Shámshevo]] · overnight
Now he had been sent by Denísov overnight to Shámshevo to capture a “tongue.” But whether because he had not been content to take only one Frenchman or because he had slept through the night, he had crept by day into some bushes right among the French and, as Denísov had witnessed from above, had been detected by them.
Ch. 303
The man whom they called Tíkhon, having run to the stream, plunged in so that the water splashed in the air, and, having disappeared for an instant, scrambled out on all fours, all black with the wet, and ran on. The French who had been pursuing him stopped.
Chapters 304–327
Ch. 304 · 📍 [[the forest]]
When the fit of laughter that had seized him at Tíkhon’s words and smile had passed and Pétya realized for a moment that this Tíkhon had killed a man, he felt uneasy.
Ch. 305
“May I call in that boy who was taken prisoner and give him something to eat?... Perhaps...”
Ch. 306 · 📍 [[French camp]]
“You’ll take me, won’t you?” he said, turning to Dólokhov. “Why not?” Dólokhov answered absently
Ch. 307
When they had descended to the bridge Pétya and Dólokhov rode past the sentinel, who without saying a word paced morosely up and down it, then they descended into the hollow where the Cossacks awaited them.
Ch. 308 · 📍 [[the watchman’s hut]] · It’s getting light
Denísov came out of the watchman’s hut and, having called Pétya, gave orders to get ready.
Ch. 309
His horse, having galloped up to a campfire that was smoldering in the morning light, stopped suddenly, and Pétya fell heavily on to the wet ground. The Cossacks saw that his arms and legs jerked rapidly though his head was quite motionless. A bullet had pierced his skull.
Ch. 309
After speaking to the senior French officer, who came out of the house with a white handkerchief tied to his sword and announced that they surrendered, Dólokhov dismounted and went up to Pétya
Ch. 310 · On the third day after leaving Moscow
On the third day after leaving Moscow Karatáev again fell ill with the fever he had suffered from in the hospital in Moscow, and as he grew gradually weaker Pierre kept away from him.
Ch. 311 · the day before
And Pierre’s soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance
Ch. 313 · 📍 [[Shámshevo]] · Before sunrise
“The Cossacks!” one of them shouted, and a moment later a crowd of Russians surrounded Pierre.
Ch. 313
Denísov, bareheaded and with a gloomy face, walked behind some Cossacks who were carrying the body of Pétya Rostóv to a hole that had been dug in the garden.
Ch. 315 · 📍 [[Dnieper]] · at night
having abandoned all the rest and all his cannon, and having crossed the Dnieper at night by stealth at a wooded spot.
Ch. 315 · 📍 [[Berëzina]]
Their supreme chief donned a fur coat and, having seated himself in a sleigh, galloped on alone, abandoning his companions.
Ch. 316 · 📍 [[Krásnoe]] · immediately
but nevertheless immediately ran away again, abandoning to its fate the scattered fragments of the army he left behind.
Ch. 316 · 📍 [[Orshá]] · by night
that he made his way by night around through the forest and across the Dnieper and escaped to Orshá, abandoning standards, artillery, and nine tenths of his men.
Ch. 317
Chichagóv Kutúzov Wittgenstein
the probability of Chichagóv, Kutúzov, and Wittgenstein effecting a junction on time at an appointed place was so remote as to be tantamount to impossibility
Ch. 317 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Napoleon’s disorganized army was flying from Russia with all possible speed
Ch. 318 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Princess Mary Alpátych Dessalles
She went through the accounts with Alpátych, conferred with Dessalles about her nephew, and gave orders and made preparations for the journey to Moscow.
Ch. 318 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
“I am not going anywhere,” Natásha replied when this was proposed to her.
Ch. 319 · the third night
“Natásha, he is no more, no more!” And embracing her daughter, the countess began to weep for the first time.
Ch. 319 · that day passed nor that night, nor the next day and night
She did not sleep and did not leave her mother.
Ch. 320 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · At the end of January
At the end of January Princess Mary left for Moscow, and the count insisted on Natásha’s going with her to consult the doctors.
Ch. 321 · 📍 [[Krásnoe]]
At Krásnoe they took twenty-six thousand prisoners, several hundred cannon, and a stick called a “marshal’s staff,”
Ch. 322
the people in so strange a manner, contrary to the Tsar’s wish, to select him—an old man in disfavor—to be their representative in the national war.
Ch. 323 · 📍 [[Dóbroe]]
The victory is complete and Russia will not forget you! Honor to you forever.
Ch. 323 · 📍 [[Dóbroe]]
While they were strong we didn’t spare ourselves, but now we may even pity them. They are human beings too.
Ch. 324
[[sergeantmajor]] [[soldier]]
shouted he, hitting the first man who came in his way a swinging blow on the back
Ch. 324 · that night
[[EighthCompany]]
The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north
Ch. 324 · for the night
[[infantryregiment]]
They beat the tattoo, called the roll, had supper, and settled down round the fires for the night
Ch. 327 · 📍 [[Kalúga]]
On account of your spells of ill health, will your excellency please be so good as to set off for Kalúga on receipt of this, and there await further commands and appointments from His Imperial Majesty.
Ch. 327
But after Bennigsen’s departure, the Grand Duke Tsarévich Constantine Pávlovich joined the army.
Ch. 327
now realized at once that his day was over, that his part was played, and that the power he was supposed to hold was no longer his.
Ch. 327 · 📍 [[Vílna]] · On the twenty-ninth of November
And he suddenly turned from the cares of army and state and, as far as the passions that seethed around him allowed, immersed himself in the quiet life to which he had formerly been accustomed
Chapters 328–355
Ch. 328
the natural method was to do what had been done with him at Austerlitz and with Barclay at the beginning of the Russian campaign—to transfer the authority to the Emperor himself
Ch. 329 · 📍 [[Orël]] · on the third day there
on the third day there, when preparing to go to Kiev, he fell ill and was laid up for three months. He had what the doctors termed “bilious fever.”
Ch. 329 · 📍 [[Orël]]
But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.
Ch. 330 · 📍 [[Orël]] · The first time he had recourse to his new judge
Pierre refused without the least difficulty or effort
Ch. 330 · 📍 [[Orël]] · in January
And Pierre decided that the steward’s proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife’s affairs and must rebuild in Moscow.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · The first Russians to enter Moscow
[[Russians]] [[Cossacks]] [[peasants]] [[householders]]
The Russians who entered Moscow, finding it plundered, plundered it in their turn.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · every day
[[carpenters]]
Gangs of carpenters hoping for high pay arrived in Moscow every day, and on all sides logs were being hewn, new houses built, and old, charred ones repaired.
Ch. 331 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
[[Donors]]
Donors contributed Church property that had been stolen.
Ch. 332 · 📍 [[Vozdvízhenka Street]] · that same evening
But at that moment Princess Mary said, “Natásha!” And with difficulty, effort, and stress, like the opening of a door grown rusty on its hinges, a smile appeared on the face with the attentive eyes, and from that opening door came a breath of fragrance which suffused Pierre with a happiness he had long forgotten and of which he had not even been thinking—especially at that moment. It suffused him, seized him, and enveloped him completely. When she smiled doubt was no longer possible, it was Natásha and he loved her.
Ch. 333 · at the very moment I entered the room
“And he... he... he said he was wishing for it at the very moment I entered the room....”
Ch. 333
And not letting them interrupt her she went on to tell what she had never yet mentioned to anyone—all she had lived through during those three weeks of their journey and life at Yaroslávl.
Ch. 334 · 📍 [[Moscow]]
Then a patrol arrived and all the men—all those who were not looting, that is—were arrested, and I among them.
Ch. 334
I am sure he really loved him. That is why I told him... Was it all right?
Ch. 335
“I know that she loves... will love you,” Princess Mary corrected herself.
Ch. 336 · at this time
Prince Vasíli, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time
Ch. 341 · 📍 [[France]]
The man who had devastated France returns to France alone, without any conspiracy and without soldiers. Any guard might arrest him, but by strange chance no one does so and all rapturously greet the man they cursed the day before and will curse again a month later.
Ch. 341 · some years pass
And some years pass during which he plays a pitiful comedy to himself in solitude on his island, justifying his actions by intrigues and lies when the justification is no longer needed
Ch. 342 · that same year
After receiving communion and unction he quietly died; and next day a throng of acquaintances who came to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the house rented by the Rostóvs.
Ch. 342 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · at once
He at once resigned his commission, and without waiting for it to be accepted took leave of absence and went to Moscow.
Ch. 344 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · In the winter of 1813
In the winter of 1813 Nicholas married Princess Mary and moved to Bald Hills with his wife, his mother, and Sónya.
Ch. 344 · Within four years
Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife’s property, and having received a small inheritance on the death of a cousin he paid his debt to Pierre as well.
Ch. 345 · Once in summer
“Mary,” he said softly, going up to her, “it will never happen again; I give you my word. Never,”
Ch. 345 · After that
After that, when in discussions with his village elders or stewards the blood rushed to his face and his fists began to clench, Nicholas would turn the broken ring on his finger
Ch. 348 · that fortnight
Natásha resorted to the baby for comfort so often, and fussed over him so much, that she overfed him and he fell ill.
Ch. 349 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
For instance, Pierre’s return was a joyful and important event and they all felt it to be so.
Ch. 355 · the campaign of 1813
Specialist historians describing the campaign of 1813 or the restoration of the Bourbons plainly assert that these events were produced by the will of Alexander.
1815 (2 events)
Ch. 341 · After the final war of 1815
The goal is reached. After the final war of 1815 Alexander possesses all possible power.
Ch. 341
Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises
1820 (50 events)
Chapters 340–358
Ch. 340
he is drawn into a conspiracy that aims at seizing power and the conspiracy is crowned with success.
Ch. 340
chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government;
Ch. 340
Chance puts the Duc d'Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him—thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might.
Ch. 340
The man who ten years before and a year later was considered an outlawed brigand is sent to an island two days’ sail from France, which for some reason is presented to him as his dominion, and guards are given to him and millions of money are paid him.
Ch. 341 · 📍 [[Europe]] · as soon as the necessity for a general European war presented itself
But as soon as the necessity for a general European war presented itself he appeared in his place at the given moment and, uniting the nations of Europe, led them to the goal.
Ch. 342
the estate was sold by auction for half its value, and half the debts still remained unpaid.
Ch. 342
Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezúkhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received.
Ch. 342 · 📍 [[Sívtsev Vrazhók]]
he accepted a post in Moscow in that service, doffed the uniform of which he was so fond, and moved with his mother and Sónya to a small house on the Sívtsev Vrazhók.
Ch. 343 · 📍 [[Moscow]] · After her visit to the Rostóvs
Though she had firmly resolved not to call on the Rostóvs again and to forget the whole matter
Ch. 343 · One day in midwinter
—and what had seemed impossible and remote suddenly became possible, inevitable, and very near.
Ch. 344 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]] · by 1820
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otrádnoe—that being his pet dream.
Ch. 344 · on taking up the management of the estates
Guided by some gift of insight, on taking up the management of the estates he at once unerringly appointed as bailiff, village elder, and delegate, the very men the serfs would themselves have chosen had they had the right to choose, and these posts never changed hands.
Ch. 345 · 📍 [[Bald Hills]]
The country seat at Bald Hills had been rebuilt, though not on the same scale as under the old prince.
Ch. 346 · the fifth of December, 1820
Pierre Princess Mary Nicholas Rostóv
Pierre had gone to Petersburg on business of his own for three weeks as he said, but had remained there nearly seven weeks and was expected back every minute.
Ch. 346
Holding his little girl with one arm, Nicholas glanced at his wife and, seeing her guilty expression, put his other arm around her and kissed her hair.
Ch. 346
And he told her of his intention to persuade Pierre to stay with them till spring.
Ch. 346
Nicholas Rostóv little Natásha
Nicholas lowered his legs, rose, and took his daughter in his arms.
Ch. 347 · in 1820
and in 1820 already had three daughters besides a son for whom she had longed and whom she was now nursing.
Ch. 347 · When her next baby was born
When her next baby was born, despite the opposition of her mother, the doctors, and even of her husband himself—who were all vigorously opposed to her nursing her baby herself, a thing then unheard of and considered injurious—she insisted on having her own way, and after that nursed all her babies herself.
Ch. 347 · Since their marriage
His wife’s demands astonished him, but they also flattered him, and he submitted to them.
Ch. 350
Prince Alexander Golítsyn has founded a society and in consequence has great influence, they say.
Ch. 351 · 📍 [[Petersburg]]
What I say is widen the scope of our society, let the mot d’ordre be not virtue alone but independence and action as well!
Ch. 351
And if Arakchéev ordered me to lead a squadron against you and cut you down, I should not hesitate an instant, but should do it.
Ch. 352 · After supper
“I quite, quite approve, my dearest!” said he with a significant look
Ch. 352 · 📍 [[Nicholas's study]] · This evening
as we were going in to supper I looked and he had broken everything on my table to bits, and he told me of it himself at once!
Ch. 352 · 📍 [[Tambóv estate]] · today
Elias Mitrofánych Nicholas Rostóv
today Elias Mitrofánych ... came back from the Tambóv estate and told me they are already offering eighty thousand rubles for the forest.
Ch. 352 · 📍 [[Otrádnoe]]
Nicholas began to speak of the possibility of repurchasing Otrádnoe before long
Ch. 353 · 📍 [[Petersburg]] · all the time in Petersburg
But I succeeded in uniting them all; and then my idea is so clear and simple.
Ch. 354 · 📍 [[Europe]]
Emperor Alexander Stein Napoleon
the Emperor Alexander, helped by the advice of Stein and others, united Europe to arm against the disturber of its peace.
Ch. 355
Emperor Alexander Stein [[Metternich]] Madame de Staël Talleyrand [[Fichte]] Chateaubriand
the campaign of 1813 and the restoration of the Bourbons were due to other things beside Alexander’s will—such as the activity of Stein, Metternich, Madame de Staël, Talleyrand, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and others.
Ch. 355
Napoleon’s power suppressed the ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age.
Ch. 357
If the conditions under which power is entrusted consist in the wealth, freedom, and enlightenment of the people, how is it that Louis XIV and Iván the Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people?
Ch. 357
If the conditions under which power is entrusted consist in the wealth, freedom, and enlightenment of the people, how is it that Louis XIV and Iván the Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people?
Ch. 357
If the conditions under which power is entrusted consist in the wealth, freedom, and enlightenment of the people, how is it that Louis XIV and Iván the Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people?
Ch. 358 · 📍 [[Mexico]]
[[NapoleonIII]]
Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico.
Ch. 358 · 📍 [[Bohemia]]
King of Prussia [[Bismarck]]
The King of Prussia and Bismarck issue decrees and an army enters Bohemia.
Ch. 358 · 📍 [[Russia]]
[[NapoleonI]]
Napoleon I issues a decree and an army enters Russia.
Chapters 359–365
Ch. 359 · 📍 [[Russia]] · during his whole reign
but undertook an expedition into Russia, with which country he considered it desirable to be in alliance
Ch. 359 · 📍 [[Russia]]
[[Frencharmies]]
a series of events which brought the French armies into Russia
Ch. 360
[[French]]
For reasons known or unknown to us the French began to drown and kill one another.
Ch. 360
[[People]]
People ceased to kill one another, and this event was accompanied by its justification in the necessity for a centralization of power, resistance to Europe, and so on.
Ch. 360
[[Men]]
Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on.
Ch. 365 · From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved
From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients.
Ch. 365
To the defenders of the laws of Copernicus and Newton, to Voltaire for example, it seemed that the laws of astronomy destroyed religion, and he utilized the law of gravitation as a weapon against religion.