Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 20

Characters Present:

Bees
Napoleon

Location: 

Moscow 

When a beehive loses its queen, the hive goes into chaos.

Napoleon found the same in empty Moscow. 

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 19

Characters Present:

Napoleon
General/Prince Kutuzhóv

Location: 

Moscow 

Kutuzhóv gives the order to leave Moscow in the evening of the 1st of September, and the city is emptied by the next day.

Meanwhile, Napoleon looks down at the lights in Moscow, thinking magnanimous thoughts, such as how the Tsar and his own nobility could mingle in the Kremlin; and, how he could donate his riches to the charities of Moscow.  He has decided that he respects Moscow too much to destroy it. 

Napoleon's officers have discovered that Moscow is empty, but they are nervous about telling Napoleon, should he be embarrassed, furious or both.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 18

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukov
Gerásim

Location:

Moscow 

Pierre is confused after being told to leave Moscow by Count Rostopchín, and his confusion is later compounded by the news that his wife is marrying someone else.

He drifts over to his now deceased benefactor, Joseph Bazdéev's home, and asks for access to his library where Pierre spends some time reading old masonic tomes and manuscripts.

The housekeeper, Gerásim, asks if he can help with anything, and Pierre asks if him if he is aware that there will be a battle on the morrow, and sends him out to procure some peasants clothes.

Pierre begs Gerásim not to reveal his identity, and they go to the market to buy a pistol, which is where Pierre meets with the Rostóv family.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 17

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukov

Countess Natalya Rostova
Sonya Rostova
Natasha Rostova
Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Location:

Moscow 

Sonya discovers that one of the wounded officers is Prince Andrew, who is mortally wounded.  She tells the family, who are saddened by the news, but none of them tell Natasha the news when she asks. 

The Rostóv's are finally ready to leave, and join the procession of carts leaving the city.  Natasha keeps an eye on the cart carrying Prince Andrew, even though she doesn't know that it carries him. 

Natasha spots Pierre, who  seems to be disguised as a commoner, and when they speak, he is despondent. 

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 16

Characters Present:

Berg

Countess Natalya Rostova
Sonya Rostova
Natasha Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv
Petya Rostóv

Location:

Moscow 

Berg, who is the Rostóv's son-in-law by virtue of being married to their daughter Vera, takes leave from the army and visits the Rostóv home.  

Berg asks for a set of drawers that is on one of the carts, to give to Vera, and Ilya goes off in a temper.  Natasha explains to Petya and Berg that their parents are fighting as Ilya wants to carry wounded soldiers, but Natalya wants to carry belongings.

Natasha goes and shouts at her mother, and it is agreed that all of their belongings shall be unloaded and put in storage, so that no wounded soldiers get left behind.

The servants approach this task with renewed energy, but Sonya tries to make sure that some belongings are brought along.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 15

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Madame Schoss
Natasha Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv

Location:

Moscow 

The value of paper money in Moscow has dropped rapidly, while the value of supplies like cloth and horses have increased.

Ilya wakes from his sleep, and finds some wounded officers in the hall who ask him if they can go on one of his carts to escape Moscow.  The count consents, and orders some of the luggage to be unpacked from the carts to make room.

Natalya summons her husband after hearing complaints from Madame Schoss, and tells her husband that their belongings will be their only wealth, and that he must have them put back on the carts.

Natasha overhears, and asks why her mother objects.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 14

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Madame Schoss
Natasha Rostova
Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Location:

Moscow 

Madame Schoss returns from town, and frightens Natalya with news of rioting in the streets.

Natasha decides to get involved in the packing, and finally convinces everyone that she is not annoying by fitting some carpets and crockery into boxes that nobody else had success packing. She does this by abandoning all of the cheap wares.

The first of the wounded soldiers is brought into the house. To everyone's shock, it is Prince Andrew.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 13

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Mávra Kuzmínichna
Petya Rostóv
Natasha Rostova

Location:

Moscow

Natasha is sitting in her room, being nostalgic, looking at her ball dresses and bows.  She had tried to help pack the house, but kept getting in the way.

She decides to go for a walk, and sees the family's former housekeeper, Mávra Kuzmínichna, talking to an officer at the gate.  Mávra says that they would be more comfortable staying at the Rostóv home, since the family were leaving.  Natasha agrees, and gets permission from her parents for wounded soldiers to stay at the house in their absence. 

Natalya is upset and trying to get the family to leave as soon as possible, to prevent young Petya from joining the battle at Three Hills on the morrow.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 12

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv
Petya Rostóv
Natasha Rostova

Location:

Moscow


Natalya has spent months in a panic, as both of her sons, Nicholas and Petya have been away fighting.  She is, however, happy about Nicholas wanting to marry Princess Mary, as it could help the Rostov family financially.

Ilya finds a way to calm her by having Petya transferred for further training in Moscow, and by arranging other posts which don't actually involve fighting.

Since Petya has been home, he and Natasha have become silly.  They run up and down the halls of the house laughing, despite the household having to pack up because the French are coming.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 11

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov
Count Rostopchín

Location:

Moscow

Pierre meets with Rostopchín, who asks him in a friendly, yet menacing way if Pierre is a Mason.  Pierre says he is, and Rostopchín starts ranting about whether he is a Mason, or a Mason, and that if Pierre is a Mason... well, he had better be careful, as he had already had some other Masons deported, as they had been circulating Napoleon's proclamation.

Pierre says nothing, and Rostopchín goes on, alternating between being civil and shouting, and he tells Pierre to leave Moscow, and to not get in contact with Mr. Klyucharëv, who Pierre had previously lent his carriage to. 

Pierre goes to his house, and among dozens of other letters and petitions, he finds Hélène's letter, saying that she is off to get married.

He goes to bed and passes out with his clothes on, his head in a spin. 

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 10

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov
Count Rostopchín's adjutant

Location:

Moscow


Upon his arrival in Moscow, Pierre is immediately summoned by Count Rostopchín.

While waiting to see him, he reads an article in the newspaper by Tsar Alexander, saying that Moscow will be defended to the end, which is against everyone else's understanding that Moscow cannot be defended.

Pierre also hears gossip the his wife will travel abroad.  He greets this news with an absent-minded shrug.

We learn that Count Rostopchín has a nasty temper.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 9

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov

Location:

Borodíno, on the way to Moscow

Pierre, asleep in his carriage, has several nightmares which twist his time in the Masonic Lodge together with the horrors he has seen in battle. 

His driver wakes him, and tells him that it is time to go, and Pierre is frustrated that he doesn't know what his dreams were trying to tell him. 

On the way to Moscow, Pierre gives a ride to a wounded general, who tells him of Prince Anatole Kurágin's death, and also, of Prince Andrew Bolkónski's death.