Characters Present:
Anna Pávlovna
Prince Vasilí Kurágin
others
Location:
Anna Pávlovna's house, Petersburg
Anna returns from the Emperor's birthday celebrations with news of Kutúzov's resistance against the French. Rumours are swirling that Napoleon has been captured and that the French have surrendered. News that Moscow has been given up unsettles everyone.
News also arrives late in the evening that Countess Hélène Berzúkhova committed suicide by taking too many pills given to her by the Queen of Spain's physician, to treat her angina. Apparently, she had become paranoid that the old count that had married knew that she had written a letter to her other husband, Pierre.
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