War And Peace

7. Hélène writes to Pierre asking for his co-operation over the divorce.

8. Pierre walks back to Mozhaysk, where he meets his own groom.

9. Pierre’s vivid dreams. He travels on to Moscow.

10. Pierre goes to see Rostopchin. The ‘traitor’ Vereshchagin.

11. Rostopchin warns Pierre that he must leave. He goes away in secrecy.

12. The Rostovs prepare to leave. Petya is in the army, but still with them.

13. Natasha invites wounded men to occupy their house.

14. Natasha rearranges the packing. Unknown to her, Andrey is brought in.

15. Natasha defeats her mother; they take wounded men instead of luggage.

16. Berg wants to borrow a cart. More and more wounded men fill their carts.

17. They trundle off in heavy traffic, with Andrey. An encounter with Pierre.

18. Pierre lives at Bazdeyev’s. Gerasim gets him peasant clothing and a gun.

19. Napoleon surveys Moscow, awaiting a deputation of boyars.

20. Moscow is empty, like a dead beehive. Napoleon’s grand coup de théâtre has failed.

21. Incoming soldiers block the bridge. There is looting.

22. A young relative arrives at the Rostovs’. Mavra gives him money.

23. Abandoned workmen drink and brawl.

24. Rostopchin, feeling sidelined, needs a victim. Vereshchagin is available.

25. The killing of Vereshchagin. Lunatics on the loose. Kutuzov at the bridge.

26. The French enter Moscow. Much looting. The fire begins.

27. Pierre stays on to do his deed. The drunken Makar Bazdeyev has a pistol.

28. Pierre saves the occupying Captain Ramballe’s life. They dine together.

29. They talk confidingly of women and love. A small fire is visible.

30. The Rostovs’ staff see the fire at Mytishchi.

31. The count is informed. Natasha gets through to see Andrey.

32. Andrey is in and out of consciousness. Natasha now stays at his side.

33. Pierre sets out. He saves a child from the fire.

34. He defends an Armenian woman, and is then arrested as an arsonist.

VOLUME IV

Part I (August 1812)

1. Anna Scherer’s soirée. News that Hélène is seriously ill.

2. A victory at Borodino is reported. Death of Hélène.

3. Michaud reports the loss of Moscow to the Tsar.

4. Nikolay is sent to Voronezh. He stands out in provincial society.

5. He flirts. The governor’s wife advises him against marrying Sonya.

6. He visits Princess Marya, loves her but cannot imagine her as his wife.

7. A letter from Sonya sets Nikolay free. He still thinks fondly of Marya.

8. She had written under pressure from the countess.

9. Pierre under interrogation. Fourteen men await their verdict.

10. Pierre is sentenced to death as a spy.

11. Five prisoners are brutally executed. Pierre and the others are spared.

12. Pierre meets Platon Karatayev in prison.

13. Pierre sees Karatayev as the embodiment of simplicity and truth.

14. Princess Marya joins the Rostovs in Yaroslavl. Andrey is in a bad way.

15. Little Prince Nikolay is taken to see his dying father.

16. Andrey experiences joy and a lightness of being just before he dies.

Part II (October 1812)

1. The flanking manoeuvre leading to Tarutino was natural and inevitable.

2. Correspondence between Napoleon and Kutuzov. Changes in strength.

3. Alexander, and others, urge attack. Kutuzov sees no need to risk lives.

4. Battle dispositions are made, but Yermolov is slow to follow them up.

5. Kutuzov prepares reluctantly for battle but finds it has been postponed.

6. The Cossacks then attack, find Murat but fail to follow up their success.

7. A small victory, with some (useless) losses. Naopleon is on his way out.

8. Napoleon, the ‘genius’, made all the wrong decisions in Moscow.

9. He took charge, issuing proclamations and orders. Nothing worked.

10. He failed in militarism, diplomacy, justice, religion and everything else.

11. Pierre spends four weeks in prison. Karatayev and the French soldier.

12. Pierre wants freedom, but he is full of joie de vivre and energy.

13. Departure of the French. Pierre’s group is marched away.

14. Pierre laughs at the idea of them locking up his real self and immortal soul.

15. The Russians at Fominsk and Maloyaroslavets. Dokhturov the real hero.

16. Konovnitsyn, who brought news of the retreat, is another unsung hero.

17. Kutuzov, awakened at night, thanks God for the salvation of Russia.

18. The French run away in panic, and Napoleon comes near to being caught.

19. The French army melts away. Kutuzov wants to let them go, unharassed.

Part III (October—November 1812)

1. Russia behaved like a duellist who dropped his rapier and seized a cudgel.

2. Russia did not play by the book. The success of guerrilla warfare.

3. Denisov and Dolokhov plan to join forces and attack the fleeing French.

4. Young Petya Rostov turns up with a message.

5. From afar Denisov and Petya observe Tikhon Shcherbaty at work.

6. Sent to catch a Frenchman, Shcherbaty returns empty-handed.

7. Petya feels sympathy for a captured French drummer-boy.

8. Dolokhov and Denisov plan their attack. Petya insists on going with them.