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öngraben, the words of Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov-Karsky were conveyed to me about this description of the battle, which confirmed my conviction. N. N. Muravyov, a commander in chief, said that he had never read a more faithful description of a battle, and that his own experience had convinced him that it was impossible to carry out the orders of a commander in chief during a battle. (Tolstoy’s note.)

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*760Augmenting the use of these means by an act of charity worthy of himself and of the French army, he had aid distributed to the victims of the fire. But food supplies being too precious to be given for long to foreigners, most of them enemies, Napoleon preferred to furnish them with money, and he had paper roubles distributed to them.

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*761It is worth noting that almost all the writers who have written about the year twelve have seen something special and fateful in those events. (Tolstoy’s note.)

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Translation copyright © 2007 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Introduction copyright © 2007 by Richard Pevear

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This translation of War and Peace has been made from the text in volumes 4–7 of the Collected Works in Twenty Volumes, by Leo Tolstoy, published by Goslitizdat, Moscow, in 1962.

Portions of this translation originally appeared in The Hudson Review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910.

[Voina i mir. English]

War and peace / by Leo Tolstoy; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book”—T.p. verso.

1. Russia—History—Alexander I, 1801–1825—Fiction. 2. Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1815—Campaigns—Russia—Fiction. I. Pevear, Richard, [date] II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.

PG3366.V6 2007

891.73'3—dc22

2007015989

eISBN: 978-0-307-27157-0

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