Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 14

Characters Present:

Nicholas Rostóv
Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov

Location:

The English Club

Rostóv and Dólokhov continue to play cards, and Dólokhov decides to take Rostóv's losings up to 43,000 rubles, which is the combined age of he and Sonya.

Dólokhov is successful in his endeavors, and asks Rostóv when he will hand the money over.  Rostóv asks for an IOU and Dólokhov remarks bitterly that Sonya is in love with Rostóv. 

Rostóv gets cranky and tells Dólokhov to leave his cousin out of it and says that he will pay the outstanding sum on the morrow.

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 13

Characters Present: 

Nicholas Rostóv

Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov

20 friends of Dólokhov

Location:

The English Club, Moscow

Nicholas Rostóv has been trying to get in touch with Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov for some days, though Dólokhov has been avoiding him. Rostóv finally gets a note from Dólokhov, requesting his company at the English Club that evening.

Rostóv goes, and Dólokhov looks at him coldly and says that now that Sonya has rejected him, he will leave to rejoin his regiment

They play cards, and Dólokhov snidely taunts Rostóv into betting more than he can afford - 800 rubles of his 2000 ruble allowance, which he is supposed to use over the whole season.  Rostóv loses it.

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 4

Characters Present:

Count Pierre Bezukhov
Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov
Nicholas Rostóv
Prince Nesvítski

Location:

The English Club Moscow/24.384 metres or 80 feet off a roadside

Still at the dinner at the English Club, Pierre is sitting across the table from Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv.  

Pierre is unhappy because he received a letter from his cousin earlier stating that Pierre's new wife, Hélène is having an affair with Dólokhov, which serves to confirm the rumours already flying about town.  Berzúkhov is especially insulted as he previously helped Dólokhov out by giving him money and accommodation in his home.

Eventually Pierre snaps, calls Dólokhov a scoundrel and challenges him to a duel the following morning.

The next morning arrives and pistols are handed to Dólokhov and Pierre, who has to ask how the trigger works, as he has never fired a gun before.

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 2

Characters Present:

Nicholas Rostóv

Vaska Denisóv

Count Ilya Rostóv

General Bagratión

Location:

Moscow

Rostóv, pleased to be home, has a new outfit and is showing it off in Moscow society.  He is no longer interested in a relationship with Sonja and has instead been doing manly things, such as going to brothels; going on sprees with Denisóv; and to a place called the English Club.

His father, Count Ilya Rostóv organsises a dinner for General Bagratión at the English Club and all of the main figures from the war are there.  Various events of the war are discussed, and it comes to pass that nobody realises that Prince Andrew Bolkónski has been captured by the French, and is still alive.