Ostróvna
15. Rostóv’s hussars charge the French dragoons. He wounds and captures a prisoner
16. Natásha’s illness. The use of doctors
17. Natásha and Pierre. She prepares for communion with Belóva. The church service. Her health improves
18. Natásha attends Mass and hears the special prayer for victory
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
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’
21. Pétya goes to the Krémlin to see the Emperor. He gets crushed. He secures a biscuit thrown by the Emperor after dinner
22. Assembly of gentry and merchants at the Slobóda Palace. A limited discussion. Pierre’s part in it
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
Book Ten
1. Reflections on the campaign of 1812. The course of events was fortuitous and unforeseen by either side
2. Prince 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
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
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 Ere himself and not leave it to the French. Alpátych meets Prince Andrew, who has an encounter with Berg
5. Prince Andrew passing Bald Hills with his regiment. The re treat: 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
6. Matter and form. Anna Pávlovna’s and Hélène’s rival salons. Prince Vasíli’s opinion of Kutúzov
7. Napoleon orders an advance on Moscow. Napoleons conversation with Lavrúshka
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
9. Character of the Boguchárovo peasantry and the baffling under currents in the life of the Russian people. The village Elder, Dron. Alpátych talks to him. The peasants decide not to supply horses or carts
10. Mlle Bourienne advises Princess Mary to appeal to the French for protection. Princess Mary speaks to Dron
11. Princess Mary addresses the peasants. They distrust her and refuse to leave Boguchárovo
12. Princess Mary at night recalls her last sight of her father
13. Nicholas and Ilyín ride to Boguchárovo. They are asked by Alpátych to protect the princess. Nicholas makes her acquaintance and places himself at her service
14. Nicholas calls the peasants to account and intimidates them. Carts and horses are provided for Princess Mary’s departure. Princess Mary feels that she loves him j
15. Prince Andrew goes to headquarters and meets Denísov, who wants guerrilla troops to break the French line of communication. Kutúzov’s reception of them. He transacts business
16. The priest’s wife offers Kutúzov “bread and salt.” He has a further talk with Prince Andrew, who declines a place on the staff. Patience and Time. Prince Andrew’s confidence in Kutúzov
17. Moscow after the Emperor’s visit. Rostopchín’s broadsheets. Julie’s farewell soiree. Forfeits for speaking French. Pierre hears of Princess Mary’s arrival in Moscow
18. Rostopchín’s broadsheets. Pierre and the eldest princess. Leppich’s balloon. A public Hogging. Pierre leaves Moscow for the army
19. Senselessness of the battle of Borodinó, and erroneousness of the historians’ accounts of it. Where and how it was fought
20. Pierre encounters cavalry advancing and carts of wounded re tiring. He talks to an army doctor. Pierre looks for the “position” occupied by the army. Peasant militia digging entrenchments
21. Pierre ascends a knoll at Górki, surveys the scene, and inquires as to the “position” occupied. A procession carrying the “Smolénsk Mother of God.” The reverence of the crowd and of Kutúzov
22. Borís meets Pierre. Dólokhov makes his way to Kutúzov. Kutúzov notices Pierre. Dólokhov asks Pierre to be reconciled
23. Pierre rides to the left Sank with Bennigsen, who explains the “position” in a way Pierre does not understand and changes one of Kutúzov’s dispositions
24. Prince Andrew’s reflections on life and death. Pierre comes to see him
25. Timókhin’s opinion of Kutúzov. Prince Andrew on Barclay de Tolly. War and chess. The spirit of the army. Wolzogen and Clausewitz. “The war must be extended widely.” Pierre understands the importance of this war. “Not take prisoners.” What is war? Prince Andrew thinks of Natásha
26. De Beausset brings a portrait of the “King of Rome” to Napoleon. Napoleon s proclamation
27. Napoleon’s dispositions for the battle of Borodinó. They were not carried out
28. Napoleon’s cold. Why the battle had to be fought
29. Napoleon’s talk to de Beausset and Rap p. The game begins
30. Pierre views the battlefield from the knoll at Górki
31. Pierre at the Borodinó bridge. Under fire. Goes to Raévski’s Redoubt. His horse wounded under him. The Raévski Redoubt. The young officer. Pierre is accepted at the redoubt as one of the family. The flame of hidden fire in the men’s souls. Shortage of ammunition. Pierre sees ammunition wagons blown up
32. The redoubt captured by the French. Pierre’s conflict with a French officer. The redoubt retaken by the Russians
33. The course of the battle. Difficulty of discerning what was going on. Things take their own course apart from the orders issued
34. Reinforcements. Belliard appeals to Napoleon. De Beausset pro poses breakfast. Friant’s division sent in support. The expected success not secured. Continuous and useless slaughter
35. Kutúzov. His rebuke to Wolzogen. An order o£ the day for an attack tomorrow. The spirit of the army
36. Prince Andrew with the reserve under fire. Hit by a bursting shell. Outside the dressing station
37. The operating tent. Portion of Prince Andrew’s thighbone extracted. Anatole’s leg amputated. Prince Andrew pities him
38. Napoleon is depressed. His mind and conscience darkened. His calculation that few Frenchmen perished in Russia
39. Appearance of the Geld at the end of the battle. Doubts maturing in every soul. Only a little further effort needed to secure victory, but such effort impossible. Could Napoleon have used his Old Guard? The Russians had gained a moral victory
Book Eleven
1. Continuity of motion. Achilles and the tortoise. The method of history; its explanation of events compared with explanations of the movement of a locomotive
2. Summary of campaign before Borodinó and explanation of Kutúzov’s subsequent movements
3. Kutúzov and his generals at Poklónny Hill. Council of War at Filí
4. The author’s reflections on the abandonment of Moscow. Rostopchín’s conduct and that of private individuals
5. Hélène in Petersburg. Conversion to Catholicism and plans for remarriage
6. Pierre walks to Mozháysk. His night lodging there. His dream, and his return to Moscow
7. Pierre at Rostopchín’s. The affair of Klyucharëv and Vereshchágin. Pierre leaves home secretly
8. The Rostóvs: packing up and leaving Moscow. They allow wounded officers to stay in their house and avail themselves of their carts to leave Moscow. Berg’s wish to borrow a cart Natásha when leaving Moscow sees and speaks to Pierre. Prince Andrew travels in their train of vehicles
9. Pierre at Bazdéev’s house. He wears a coachman’s coat
10. Napoleon surveys Moscow from Poklónny Hill. He awaits a deputation of les boyars
11. Moscow compared to a queenless hive. The army’s departure. Looting by Russian soldiers. The Moskvá bridge blocked, and cleared by Ermólov. A brawl among workmen. Reading a Rostopchín broadsheet to a crowd. Scene with the superintendent of police
12. Rostopchín. The killing of Vereshchágin. The released lunatics. Rostopchín’s encounter with Kutúzov at the bridge
13. The French enter Moscow. Shots from the Krémlin gate. The Fire of Moscow discussed
14. Pierre: his plan to kill Napoleon. Bazdéev’s drunken brother fires at Captain Ramballe, who regards Pierre as a friend
15. The Rostóvs at Mytíshchi. Natásha sees Prince Andrew
16. Pierre sets out to meet Napoleon. He saves a child, defends an Armenian girl from a French soldier, and is arrested as an incendiary
Book Twelve
1. Anna Pávlovna’s soiree. Talk of Hélène’s illness. The Bishop’s letter. Victory at Borodinó reported. Death of Hélène. News of abandonment of Moscow. Michaud’s report
2. Nicholas sent to Vorónezh. An evening at the Governor’s. Nicholas and Princess Mary. A letter from Sony a
3. Pierre’s treatment as a prisoner. He is questioned by Davout. Shooting of prisoners. Platón Karatáev
4. Princess Mary goes to the Rostóvs’ in Yaroslávl. Prince An drew’s last days and death
Book Thirteen
1. The cause of historical events. A survey of movements of the Russian army after leaving Moscow. Napoleon’s letter to Kutúzov. The camp at