Chapter 11 In the middle of this fresh tale Pierre was summoned to the commander in chief. When he entered the private room Count Rostopchin, puckering his face, was rubbing his forehead and eyes with his hand. A short man was saying something, but w
Chapter 10 - Pierre goes to see Count Rostopchn On the thirteenth of August Pierre reached Moscow. Close to the gates of the city he was met by Count Rostopchins adjutant. We have been looking for you everywhere, said the adjutant. The count wants to
Chapter 15 Moscows last day had come. It was a clear bright autumn day, a Sunday. The church bells everywhere were ringing for service, just as usual on Sundays. Nobody seemed yet to realize what awaited the city. Only two things indicated the social
Chapter 14 Madame Schoss, who had been out to visit her daughter, increased the countess fears still more by telling what she had seen at a spirit dealers in Myasnitski Street. When returning by that street she had been unable to pass because of a dr
Chapter 29 When the French officer went into the room with Pierre the latter again thought it his duty to assure him that he was not French and wished to go away, but the officer would not hear of it. He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and
Chapter 28 - The French officer Pierre, having decided that until he had carried out his design he would disclose neither his identity nor his knowledge of French, stood at the half-open door of the corridor, intending to conceal himself as soon as t
Chapter 27 - Pierre's plan to save Europe. Makar Alexeevich The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, only reached the quarter where Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September. After the last two days spe
Chapter 26 - The French enter Moscow Toward four oclock in the afternoon Murats troops were entering Moscow. In front rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself accompanied by a numerous suite. About the
Chapter 25 - Vereshchgin Toward nine oclock in the morning, when the troops were already moving through Moscow, nobody came to the count any more for instructions. Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained beh
Chapter 23 - A brawl among workmen From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs. On benches round the tables in a dirty little room sat some ten factory hands. Tipsy and perspiring,
Chapter 22 Meanwhile, the city itself was deserted. There was hardly anyone in the streets. The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard. Nobody drove through the streets a
Chapter 21 - Looting The Russian troops were passing through Moscow from two oclock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving. The greatest crush during the movement of the
Chapter 20 - Moscow, a queenless hive Meanwhile Moscow was empty. There were still people in it, perhaps a fiftieth part of its former inhabitants had remained, but it was empty. It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty. In a qu
Chapter 19 - Napoleon surveys Moscow from Poklnny Hill Kutuzovs order to retreat through Moscow to the Ryazan road was issued at night on the first of September. The first troops started at once, and during the night they marched slowly and steadily
Chapter 18 - Pierre at Bazdevs house For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdeev. This is how it happened. When he woke up on the morning after his return to Moscow and
Chapter 17 Before two oclock in the afternoon the Rostovs four carriages, packed full and with the horses harnessed, stood at the front door. One by one the carts with the wounded had moved out of the yard. The caleche in which Prince Andrey was bein
Chapter 16 Berg, the Rostovs son-in-law, was already a colonel wearing the orders of Vladimir and Anna, and he still filled the quiet and agreeable post of assistant to the head of the staff of the assistant commander of the first division of the Sec
Chapter 24 - Rostopchn On the evening of the first of September, after his interview with Kutuzov, Count Rostopchin had returned to Moscow mortified and offended because he had not been invited to attend the council of war, and because Kutuzov had pa
Chapter 34 - Napoleon's view of the battle Napoleons generals Davout, Ney, and Murat, who were near that region of fire and sometimes even entered it repeatedly led into it huge masses of well-ordered troops. But contrary to what had always happened
Chapter 38 - Napoleon's interpretation of the war The terrible spectacle of the battlefield covered with dead and wounded, together with the heaviness of his head and the news that some twenty generals he knew personally had been killed or wounded, a
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