Volume 3: Book 15 - Chapter 14

Characters Present:


Location: 

Moscow


The Russians start returning to Moscow in droves, and plunder whatever the French didn't leave behind.  Within a week the police start to stop the peasants from doing so, and make them cart corpses out of town.

After the plundering has stopped, the rebuilding of Moscow begins.

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.

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.

Book 3 - Chapter 1

N.B For context go back to Book 1 - Chapters 19-24

Characters Present:

Prince Vasíli Kurágin
Count Pierre Bezukhov
Anna Pávlovna
Hélène Kuragina - daughter of Prince Vasíli Kuragin

Location: 

Moscow generally, then Anna Pávlovna's drawing room.

Vasíli has taken it upon himself to manage Pierre's riches, and is taking advantage of Pierre's trust by paying himself with several thousand rubles, taken from Pierre's peasants.  He is also trying to get Pierre to marry his daughter, Hélène. 

Pierre attends a tea at Anna Pávlovna's house and she purposefully places him in conversation with Hélène.  She stands rather advantageously to her figure and he gets wooed by her cleavage, thinking that he must, must marry her.   He leaves and is pulled between thoughts of her beauty, and how stupid he thinks she is.