Book 1 - Chapter 27

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Princess Lisa Bolkónskaya 
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski

Princess Mary Bolkónskaya

his father´s architect, Michael Ivánovich

A French woman, Mademoiselle Bourienne

Setting:

Bald Hill Estate

The characters all go in to the dining room to eat dinner. They discuss the war again and old Prince Nicholas declares that today's men don´t even know the ABC of war and that they are all babies.  He goes onto claim that Bonaparte is but a little Frenchy and that there is nothing wrong in Europe at all at the moment.

Dinner ends, and Princess Lisa is impressed by Prince Nicholas and says so to Princess Mary.

Book 1 - Chapter 26

Characters Present:

Princess Mary Bolkónskaya

Prince Andrew Bolkónski and his wife, 
Princess Lisa Bolkónskaya

Prince Nicholas Bolkónski

A random French woman who seems to live there called Mademoiselle Bourienne

Setting:

Bald Hill Estate

Princess Lisa and Prince Andrew arrive at Bald Hills and Lisa and Mary are overjoyed to see one another. There is much rejoicing.

Prince Andrew goes into the drawing room to visit with his father, Prince Nicholas. They discuss the war for the whole time. Prince Andrew reveals that the Russian stratagem will be to send an army of ninety-thousand to Prussia to threaten them out of their neutrality, send some of these men join some Swedish forces at Stralsund, send two-hundred-and-twenty-thousand Russians to join up with one-hundred-thousand Austrians in Italy and the Rhine and send fifty-thousand men to join up with as many English in Naples. Essentially, the armies are to surround the French forces and attack them from various sides.

Book 1 - Chapter 25

Characters Present:

Prince Nicholas Bolkónski -father of Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Princess Mary Bolkónskaya - daughter of Nicholas

A letter received from Julie Kuragina , who was at the Rostov´s dinner thing, upsetting one of the Rostóv daughters for flirting with the Rostóv cousin, Nicholas.

Location:

An estate called Bald Hill, to which Prince Nicholas Bolkónski was exiled by the Emperor.

Princess Mary, who seems to be quite timid, goes for her morning geography lesson with her father.

She doesn´t understand straight away, Nicholas gets cranky as she expected and she retires to her room to finish her lesson for the day and also read a letter that Julie sent.

Julie says that Nicholas Rostóv has gone to war now, and that there will possibly be an arranged marriage between herself and Pierre, who is the new Count Berzúkhov.