Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 9

Characters Present:

Napoleon

Location: 

Moscow

Napoleon restores order to Moscow by declaring that the people who set the fires shall be punished.  

He writes a letter to Tsar Alexander, telling him that Count Rostopchín had been terrible, and then he makes Rostopchín burn his own houses down. 

Napoleon reinstates church services, and posts a proclamation encouraging citizens to return to their homes.

He sends Murat out in search of Kutúzov.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 25

Characters Present:

Count Rostopchín
Vereshchágin

Location: 

Moscow


Count Rostopchín is feeling like his efforts to save Moscow have ignored and belittled by the orders of Kutúzov. 

He hears a mob at the front of his house, and the traitor, Vereshchágin is dragged into the yard.

Rostopchín goes out, and commands the crowd and the troops to tear him apart, to kill him.  At first they are reluctant, but they soon get over this and kill the poor, fragile, starved man. 

Rostopchín feels mildly bad about it later, and calls the crowd animals.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 24

Characters Present:

Count Rostopchín

Location: 

Moscow

Count Rostopchín has a meeting with Kutúzov and is offended when he is not invited to the subsequent war council.  Kutúzov has ignored his offer to help defend Moscow, since Kutúzov's plan was to abandon Moscow.

He has instead been asked to provide police officers to help escort some troops through the city. 

Rostopchín gets sulky, and won't give any orders.

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 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 5

Characters Present:

Count Rostopchín

Location:

Moscow


People are beginning to leave Moscow, as to not be ruled by the French.  The rich are leaving with their belongings, and the poor are staying behind to burn things down, to make sure the French don't get any use out of it.

Count Rostopchín keeps calling the people that are leaving Moscow cowards in his broadsheet publication.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 3

Characters Present:

Bennigsen

Kutúzov

Ermólov

Count Rostopchín

Location:

Poklómy Hill


Ermólov returns from inspecting the lines, and tells Kutúzov that the army will need to retreat to beyond Moscow. 

Kutúzov goes to Poklómy Hill, where he gets out of his carriage and sits on a bench. He is instantly surrounded by officers, and they have a serious discussion about whether or not to enact the retreat.

Kutúzov cannot bring himself to give the order, and decides that he must only trust his own judgement. 

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 18

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov

Location:

Moscow 


Moscow is slowly being deserted. Pierre receives the mornings newspapers, which contradict the gossip that Count Rostopchín had been forbidding people to leave Moscow. 

Pierre cannot decide whether to stay and wait in Moscow, or to join the army. 

He goes into town, and sees some French cooks being flogged, and decides to join the army in Mozháysk.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 22

Characters Present:

Count Pierre Bezukhov
Count Ilya Rostóv'
Tsar Alexander
Count Rostopchín
A whole lot of new and old military men - some in uniforms from Catherine's reign, some in uniforms from Alexander's reign.

Location: 

Slobóda Palace

Count Rostopchín enters the room to announce that the Emperor will soon join them and they had better come to some agreement.

The nobles all make a hasty agreement to build the army against Napoleon by providing and furnishing ten serfs from every thousand.

Alexander enters, and is overwhelmed with the support, and weeps during his speech.  

Pierre is so moved that he approaches Count Rostopchín, and pledges a thousand men and their maintenance. 

END OF BOOK 9