Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 5

Characters Present:

Count Pierre Bezukhov
Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov
Nicholas Rostóv
Vaska Denísov


Location:

24.384 metres or 80 feet off a roadside

Fedor Ivanich Dólokhov shouts through the mist to Pierre to begin.  They pace towards each other, though Dólokhov has not yet raised his pistol.  Pierre fires, and Dólokhov falls over.  He has the right to fire back through, so Pierre stands still while Dólokhov shoots and misses.

In the carriage on the way back to town, the wounded Dólokhov takes Rostóv by the hand and beseeches him to go ahead and prepare his mother for the news that he may be dying.