Volume 2: Book 6 - Chapter 8

Characters Present:

Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev

Hélène Kuragina

Pierre Bezukhov

Location:

Petersburg/Moscow

After his failed speech, Pierre descends into depression.  He also receives word that his wife, Hélène, would like to restore their marriage. 

Pierre goes to visit his mentor Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev in Moscow for advice, and Pierre is advised to look back to the basic structure of the Masons, and to both forgive his wife and ask for her forgiveness.  Alexéevich also advises Pierre to take a more humble role in the Petersburg Masons, and to quietly guide them away from pride into humility.

Pierre returns to Petersburg, and his wife, Hélène moves back in.

Volume 1: Book 5 - Chapter 1

Characters Present:

Count Pierre Bezukhov

Hélène Bezukhov

Strange Old Man

Location:

Moscow

Pierre finishes having a meeting with his wife Hélèna, and goes to the station to await a carriage to Petersburg. 

He is depressed and having some kind of existential crisis, and though he is unable to get a carriage straight away, he doesn't care if it arrives now or ever.   

Pierre moves to the waiting room and lays down on one of the leather couches. A strange old man wearing a deaths-head ring enters the room and sits opposite him.  Pierre is fascinated by his bright eyes.

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 6

Characters Present:

Count Pierre Bezukhov
Héléne Kuragina (now Countess)


Location:

The Bezukhov house, Moscow

Pierre returns home and goes straight to his deceased fathers bedroom, where he considers how much he dislikes his wife; how beautiful she is; and how bad it will look to her that he shot her lover.

He falls asleep eventually, and is woken the next morning by his footman and Héléne.  Hélène mocks Pierre over the duel and says that she wasn't having an affair with Dolókhov, but just spends so much time with him because he is wittier and smarter than Pierre.  Pierre says that they should separate and she scoffs and says that she will take most of his fortune.

The following week Pierre packs his things, gives control of a great deal of his estate to Hélène then goes to his other home in Petersburg.