Characters Present:
Nicholas Rostóv
Natasha Rostova
Sonya Rostova
Vaska Denísov
Iogel - a dance instructor and ball-arranger
Location:
One of Iogel's balls in the ballroom at the Berzúkhov house (Moscow)
Nicholas, Natasha, Sonya and Vaska all attend a ball, thrown by Iogel, who by all accounts, hosts the best balls in Moscow.
Vaska notes to Nicholas that his sister, Natasha, is quite beautiful as he watches her dancing.
A Polish dance called the "mazurka" starts, and Nicholas encourages Natasha to ask Vaska to dance, as he is famous for his execution of it.
Natasha and Vaska dance and he is so good at it that Natasha looks at him in awe when it is over. They spend the rest of the evening sitting together.
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