Volume 3: Book 15 - Chapter 10

Characters Present:

Tsar Alexander
Kutúzov

Location: 

Berëzina and Vílna

It is said that the destruction of the bridge over the Berëzina was worse for the French than the Battle of Kräsnoe, but numbers show that Kräsnoe was worse.

Disapproval of Kutúzov continues, with people thinking him a crackpot for withholding men from battles.  

The Emperor comes to visit Kutúzov at Vílna and hugs him, causing Kutúzov to sob a bit.  The Emperor then complains about Kutúzov to the field-marshal after Kutúzov leaves the room.  The Emperor seems to approve of him by the end of the chapter though, as Kutúzov is awarded the Order of St George of the First Class.

Volume 3: Book 15 - Chapter 6

Characters Present:

Kutúzov

Location: 

Krásnoe

The battle of Krásnoe has been won, and Kutúzov goes around inspecting the state of things.  There are some French prisoners, disfigured, frost-bitten, and quite a few have red, weeping eyes.

He thanks the soldiers for their hard-work, then goes on to say that they didn't invite the French here, and calls them (probably, as it is censored) "bloody bastards".  The soldiers enjoy the swearing, and cheer. 

Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 18

Characters Present:

Kutúzov
Dokhtúrov

Mouton
Napoleon

Location: 

Kalúga and Malo-Yaroslávets 


Kutúzov orders the evacuation of Kalúga and Dokhtúrov goes on to Malo-Yaroslávets.

The French army are in retreat.  There is a council at Malo-Yaroslávets, where Napoleon, in agreement with a simple soldier called Mouton, decides that the French must get away as quickly as possible.

Some Cossacks almost capture Napoleon, but get distracted by plundering instead. 

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 13 - Chapter 7

Characters Present:

Ermólov
General Kutúzov 

Location: 

On the road leading from Stromílova to Dmítrovsk


General Kutúzov is in a column at the front of the army, and Ermólov keeps trying to convince him to attack. Kutúzov resists until he receives news that the French army are in retreat.  Even then, he insists that the troops stop their advance every hundred paces to rest for 45 minutes. 

The Russian side do not manage to capture Murat, and apart from Kutúzov's column, the most the army manages is to get a few hundred of its own men killed. 

Kutúzov and Ermólov both receive awards from the Tsar for their part in the Battle of Tarútino.

Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 5

Characters Present:

Kutúzov

Location: 

Letashóvka - 3.5 miles from Tarútino


A decrepit Kutúzov reluctantly drives from Letashóvka to where the attacking columns are supposed to meet.  Instead of  finding an army ready to attack, he finds men busy having breakfast and doing general camp activities. 

He discovers that his orders to attack have not been received, and goes purple with rage and shouts at a lot of officers.  He is also indignant that he, a Supreme Highness, should be made a laughing stock.

Kutúzov reissues the order for the attack, which he disagreed with the first time round and continues to disagree with, to take place on the morrow.

Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 4

Characters Present:

Kutúzov
Ermólov

A young officer

Location: 

Tarútino

A plan is drawn up to attack the Russians on October 4.   A young officer is dispatched to take the plans to Ermólov, but Ermólov seems to have disappeared.

At 8pm, the officer finally discovers that that Ermólov has been at a party all day. He arrives to find general drunkenness, and hands the letter over. 

There is gossip amongst the staff of the Horse Guard that Ermólov went missing on purpose to get Konovnítsyn in trouble. 

Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 3

Characters Present:

Kutúzov
A Cossack named Shapoválov


Location: 

Tarútino

Kutúzov receives a letter from the Tsar, who is upset about losing Moscow, and is worried that Petersburg is under threat.

Shapoválov discovers Murat's army in a forest while out scouting and tells everyone that he was almost captured by the French.  Kutúzov receives this news.

Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 2

Characters Present:

Kutúzov



Location: 

Tolstoy discusses the movements and decisions leading up to the Russian army going to Tarútino.

The Russian army get a nice rest at Tarútino, while the French continue to be disorderly and ruin Moscow.

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 2: Book 10 - Chapter 35

Characters Present:

His Serene Highness Kutúzov

Wolzogen

Raévski

Location:

Górki


Kutúzov is sitting quietly, giving permission to give orders, and hearing reports, in which he learns that General Bagratión has been wounded, which saddens him.

He is under the impression that their side is winning, but he is approached by the Wolzogen, who has been sent by Barclay de Tolley, to smugly declare that they are losing, and that they should retreat. Kutúzov reacts angrily, and is then approached by Raévski, who has spent all day at the Knoll Battery, and says that the French are no longer attacking.

Kutúzov asks Raévski if he thinks that they should retreat, like some others do, and then he sends out an order to ready the army to attack on the morrow.

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 21

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov
Kutúzov

Location:

Borodinó

Pierre arrives at Borodinó, but the battlefield is not what he expected, with the troops on both sides just lurking about in their camps. 

The camps are also not set on either side of a line, but are intermingled, and Pierre asks a nearby officer to explain what their position is. 

A procession comes with some holy men bringing a religious icon, Mary, from Smolénsk.  

Pierre sees Kutúzov bow and kiss the icon, and then have tremendous difficulty rising to his feet because of his great weight.

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 20

Characters Present:

Pierre Bezukhov

Location:

Leaving Mozháysk

Pierre leaves Mozaháysk to join the army, and passes lots of wounded soldiers from the battle the day before.

He meets a doctor, who says that 20,000 men are doomed to die or be wounded. The doctor directs Pierre to Tatárinova to find His Serene Highness Kutúzov. 

Pierre travels in his carriage to Tatárinova, but Kutúzov is not there, and he goes on to Górki.

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 15

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski
Vaska Denísov
Commander in Chief/Prince Kutúzhov

Location:

Headquarters 


Prince Andrew is summoned to headquarters by General Kutúzhov, who is absent when Prince Andrew arrives.

Prince Andrew speaks with Denísov for a while, each reminding the other of Natasha, as they had both been betrothed to her. 

General Kutúzhov arrives, and is described as having grown "corpulent, flaccid and fat", and as making the porch creak as he dismounts from his horse.  

Kutúzhov gets a bit upset about news of Prince Nicholas' death.

Denísov suggests a clever way to cut French communication lines, which Kutúzhov discards, as he dislikes clever people for no obvious reason other than that he is old.

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 6

Characters Present:

Anna Pávlovna
Countess Hélène Berzúkhova
General, Prince, Commander-in-Chief Kutúzov
Prince Vasíli Kurágin
Barclay de Tolley

Location:

Petersburg


The social circles are all gossiping about the war, and  Anna Pávlovna's circle has contradictory gossip to Countess Hélène Berzúkhova's social circle.

Prince Vasíli goes to visit Anna Pávlovna on several occasions, and General Kutúzov tends to be the topic of conversation.

Apparently Barclay de Tolley is doing a terrible job at commanding the army, but Kutúzov seems to be ok, though no one really commits to this idea.

Then, Kutúzov gets promoted to Prince Kutúzov, and then, on the same day, also promoted to Commander-in-Chief Kutúzov, even though the Tsar doesn't really like him. Kurágin says that he has always thought that Kutúzov was a man of great merit.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 8

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski
Anatole Kurágin
General Kutúzov
Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski,
Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
Mademoiselle Bourienne
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski

Location: 

Russia, then Turkey, then Bald Hill Estate

Prince Andrew rejoins the army under General Kutúzov, hoping to run unto Anatole, so that he can challenge him to a duel about something new, as to not further tarnish Natasha's name. 

He is unsuccessful, and eventually returns to Bald Hill Estate. Andrew finds everything much the same there: Princess Mary unhappy; his father still cantankerous but now missing a tooth; and Mademoiselle Bourienne still influencing matters where she should have no influence. He does find that his son, Nicholas has grown, and looks much like his late wife.

Prince Andrew has a fight with his father, and leaves the following day to return to the army without saying goodbye, despite Mary begging him to stay and speak to him, as the old prince might die soon.

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 7

Characters Present:

Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
Princess Lisa Bolkónskaya
Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski

Location:

Bald Hills Estate

 
Prince Nicholas Bolkónski receives a letter from General Kutúzov outlining his son's demise.  Nicholas Bolkónski tells his daughter Mary, who asks to weep with him.   He won't allow it and gets bad tempered about good Russian men dying for Russian glory. 

Mary wants to tell her sister-in-law, Lisa, about her husbands death, but cannot bring herself to, and asks her father to keep it quiet until Lisa comes out of her "confinement" in a few days time.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 18

Characters Present:

Nicholas Rostóv
Tsar Alexander

Location:

Pratzen 

The battle goes on and Nicholas Rostóv is still looking for the emperor or General Kutúzov.  He hears all sorts of rumours -  that they'd been wounded and taken off the field; that Kutúzov was killed by a canon-ball in the stomach; and that the Emperor had ridden off quickly as soon as things started to go badly.

Rostóv, feeling despondent, rides into an area that everyone tells him not to, lest he be killed.  He comes across Tsar Alexander, standing alone and looking dazed, but rather than going to speak to him and ask for instructions, feels awkward and star-struck and rides away in search of Kutúzov.  Rostóv looks back over his shoulder and finds that another soldier is now comforting the emperor, and Rostóv is struck down by severe regret.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 17

Characters Present:

General Bagratión

Nicholas Rostóv

Prince Dolgurúkov

General Kutúzov

Location:

Pratzen 

Nicholas Rostóv is under the command of General Bagratión in the right flank of the army, who are yet to start fighting.

Bagratión disagrees with Prince Dolgurúkov's demand that they join the battle and sends Rostóv on a six mile trek, on which he will probably die, to ask General Kutúzov whether they should join or not.

Rostóv asks if he can ask the emperor if he runs into him first, which Bagratión agrees to.  Rostóv rides off happily, but upon reaching the other side of the army, realises that the Austrians and Germans are firing at each other, and that they are completely flanked by the French.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 15

Characters Present:

General Kutúzov

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Tsar Alexander

Tsar Alexander's entourage

Location:

Pratzen

The army is still marching into Pratzen.   Prince Andrew Bolkónski is unusually excited - he feels that today is the day that he leads the army to victory. General Kutúzov is going about looking grumpy, until he runs into Prince Andrew, who he asks to go an organise some sharp-shooters.

Tsar Alexander rides onto the field with his nicely dressed entourage and impatiently asks Kutúzov why nothing has begun.  Kutúzov says that not everyone has arrived yet and Tsar Alexander expresses his unhappiness.  Kutúzov says that he will do as Tsar Alexander pleases.