War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [838]
XXI. Natasha’s despair. Rumors. Prince Andrei comes to Moscow and learns everything. Meets Pierre coldly and asks him to return Natasha’s letters and portrait to her.
XXII. Pierre takes the packet to Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha asks to see him. Consolations and confessions. Pierre’s joy. The comet of 1812.
VOLUME III
Part One
I. Thoughts about the causes of historical events.
II. Napoleon crosses the Niemen and invades Russia.
III. Alexander I in Vilno. Learns of Napoleon’s invasion. Sends Balashov with a letter.
IV–VII. Balashov’s meetings with Murat, Davout, and Napoleon.
VIII. Prince Andrei hunts for Anatole Kuragin. On Kutuzov’s staff in Moldavia. Sent as envoy to Barclay de Tolly. Visits Bald Hills. Quarrels with father.
IX–XI. Prince Andrei at Russian general headquarters on the Drissa. The eight parties. He meets Pfuel. Attends an informal council of war in the emperor’s presence. Asks the emperor’s permission to serve in active army.
XII–XIII. Nikolai with the regiment. Writes to family and to Sonya. Nikolai and Ilyin in the rain. The tavern and Marya Genrikhovna.
XIV–XV. In action at Ostrovna. Nikolai leads a charge, takes a prisoner. Praised by his commander. His feeling of shame.
XVI. Natasha in Moscow. Physical and moral illness. The Rostovs stay for the summer.
XVII. Natasha and Pierre. She prepares for communion. The Peter and Paul feast.
XVIII. Natasha and her mother at a prayer service for the salvation of Russia.
XIX. Pierre interprets the Apocalypse.
XX. Pierre brings the Rostovs the emperor’s manifesto. Petya wants to enlist but the old count says no. Pierre decides to stop visiting the Rostovs.
XXI. Petya tries to meet the emperor. The crowd in the Kremlin. The old count gives in.
XXII–XXIII. Assembly of the Moscow nobility and merchants. Debate on war. Pierre drowned out. Rastopchin and the emperor arrive.
Part Two
I. Thoughts on the events of 1812 and on human freedom.
II. At Bald Hills. The old prince estranges Mlle Bourienne. Julie writes to Princess Marya. A letter from Prince Andrei. The old prince’s confusion.
III. The old prince sends Alpatych to Smolensk. Finally reads Prince Andrei’s letter and understands the danger. Recollections.
IV. Alpatych in Smolensk. French bombardment. Alpatych meets Prince Andrei, who sends him back to Bald Hills with a note urging his father to leave at once.
V. Russian army retreats from Smolensk. Prince Andrei visits deserted Bald Hills. Exhausted troops bathe in a pond. Letter from Bagration to Arakcheev.
VI. In Petersburg. Shifting opinions of Kutuzov in Anna Pavlovna’s circle. Kutuzov named commander in chief.
VII. The French advance on Moscow. Nikolai’s orderly Lavrushka taken prisoner. Napoleon’s talk with him, plus quotations from Thiers. Lavrushka freed.
VIII. Prior events at Bald Hills. The old prince refuses to leave. He has a stroke. They go to Bogucharovo. Reconciliations. Death of the old prince.
IX–XII. The French advance continues. Preparations to leave Bogucharovo. Troubles with the peasants. Princess Marya unable to leave. She remembers her father’s last words.
XIII–XIV. Nikolai, Ilyin, and Lavrushka happen onto Bogucharovo. Nikolai learns of the situation and meets Princess Marya. He deals firmly with the peasants. Princess Marya can leave. Sympathy between her and Nikolai.
XV–XVI. Prince Andrei at Kutuzov’s headquarters. Meets Denisov. Personal conversation with Kutuzov. The priest’s wife greets Kutuzov with bread and salt. Kutuzov’s thoughts on warfare. Prince Andrei’s thoughts on Kutuzov.
XVII. Moscow as the French approach. Rastopchin’s posters. Julie’s farewell soirée.
XVIII. Pierre undecided. Witnesses a public flogging. Resolves to leave for the army in Mozhaisk. Learns of the battle of Shevardino on 24 August.
XIX. Thoughts on the battles of Shevardino and Borodino. Errors of the historians. Corrected map of the battlefield.
XX. Pierre leaves Mozhaisk for Borodino. Meets a convoy of wounded.
XXI. Pierre arrives in Gorki. He surveys the battlefield. The icon of the Smolensk Mother