N.B For context go back to Book 1 - Chapters 19-24
Characters Present:
Prince Vasíli Kurágin
Count Pierre Bezukhov
Anna Pávlovna
Hélène Kuragina - daughter of Prince Vasíli Kuragin
Location:
Moscow generally, then Anna Pávlovna's drawing room.
Vasíli has taken it upon himself to manage Pierre's riches, and is taking advantage of Pierre's trust by paying himself with several thousand rubles, taken from Pierre's peasants. He is also trying to get Pierre to marry his daughter, Hélène.
Characters Present:
Prince Vasíli Kurágin
Count Pierre Bezukhov
Anna Pávlovna
Hélène Kuragina - daughter of Prince Vasíli Kuragin
Location:
Moscow generally, then Anna Pávlovna's drawing room.
Vasíli has taken it upon himself to manage Pierre's riches, and is taking advantage of Pierre's trust by paying himself with several thousand rubles, taken from Pierre's peasants. He is also trying to get Pierre to marry his daughter, Hélène.
Pierre attends a tea at Anna Pávlovna's house and she purposefully places him in conversation with Hélène. She stands rather advantageously to her figure and he gets wooed by her cleavage, thinking that he must, must marry her. He leaves and is pulled between thoughts of her beauty, and how stupid he thinks she is.
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