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CONTENTS
5. | Balashëv taken to Davout, who treats him badly, but he is at last presented to Napoleon in Vílna |
349 |
6. | Balashëv’s interview with Napoleon |
350 |
7. | Balashëv dines with Napoleon |
354 |
8. | Prince Andrew on Kutúzov’s staff in Moldavia. He is sent to Barclay’s army. Visits Bald Hills. His talks with his father and Princess Mary |
355 |
9. | Prince Andrew in the army at Drissa. Eight conflicting parties |
358 |
10. | Prince Andrew is introduced to Pfuel |
361 |
11. | An informal Council of War. Pfeul’s dogmatism |
363 |
12. | Nicholas writes to Sónya. He and Ilyín in a storm |
365 |
13. | Mary Hendríkhovna. The officers and the doctor |
367 |
14. | Courage. Rostóv goes into action at Ostróvna |
369 |
15. | Rostóv’s hussars charge the French dragoons. He wounds and captures a prisoner |
370 |
16. | Natásha’s illness. The use of doctors |
372 |
17. | Natásha and Pierre. She prepares for communion with Belóva. The church service. Her health improves |
373 |
18. | Natásha attends Mass and hears the special prayer for victory |
374 |
19. | Pierre’s relation to life altered by his feeling for Natásha. 666. Napoleon as Antichrist. Pierre’s belief that he is destined to end Napoleon’s power. He gets news for the Rostóvs |
377 |
20. | Pierre at the Rostóvs’. Natásha again takes up her singing. Sónya reads Alexander’s manifesto. Pétya declares that he will enter the army. Natásha realizes that Pierre loves her. He decides to cease going to the Rostóvs’ |
379 |
21. | Pétya goes to the Krémlin to see the Emperor. He gets crushed. He secures a biscuit thrown by the Emperor after dinner |
382 |
22. | Assembly of gentry and merchants at the Slobóda Palace. A limited discussion. Pierre’s part in it |
384 |
23. | Count Rostopchín’s remarks. The offer made by the Moscow nobility and gentry. The Emperor’s speech. Pierre offers to supply and maintain a thousand men |
387 |
1. | Reflections on the campaign of 1812. The course of events was fortuitous and unforeseen by either side |
389 |
2. | Princes N. Bolkónski and his daughter. His break with Mlle. Bourienne. Mary’s correspondence with Julie. The old prince receives a letter from Prince Andrew but does not grasp its meaning and confuses the present invasion with the Polish campaign of 1807 |
391 |
3. | The old prince sends Alpátych to Smolénsk with various commissions, and does not know where to have his bed placed. He remembers Prince Andrew’s letter and reads and understands it |
393 |
4. | Princess Mary sends a letter to the Governor at Smolénsk. Alpátych sets off on August 4: reaches Smolénsk that evening and stays at Ferapóntov’s inn. Firing heard outside the town. Next day he does his business, but finds alarm spreading, and is advised by the Governor that the Bolkónskis had better go to Moscow. The town bombarded. Ferapóntov’s cook has her thigh broken by a shell. Retreating soldiers loot Ferapóntov’s shop and he declares he will set his place on fire himself and not leave it to the French. Alpátych meets Prince Andrew, who has an encounter with Berg |
395 |
5. | Prince Andrew passing Bald Hills with his regiment. The retreat: heat and terrible dust. He rides over to the house. The little girls and the plums. The soldiers bathe in a pond. “Cannon fodder.” Bagratión’s letter to Arakchéev |
399 |
6. | Matter and form. Anna Pávolvna’s and Hélène’s rival salons. Prince Vasíli’s opinion of Kutúzov |
403 |
7. | Napoleon orders and advance on Moscow. Napoleon’s conversation with Lavrúshka |
405 |
8. | Prince Nicholas Bolkónski has a paralytic stroke and is taken to Boguchárovo. Princess Mary decides that they must move on to Moscow. Her last interview with her father. His affection for her. His death |
406 |
9. | Character of the Boguchárovo peasantry and the baffling undercurrents in the life of the Russian people. The village Elder, Dron. Alpátych talks to him. The peasants decide not to supply horses or carts |
410 |
10. | Mlle. Bourienne advises Princess Mary to appeal to the French for protection. Princess Mary speaks to Dron |
412 |
11. | Princess Mary addresses the peasants. They |