Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 16

Characters Present:

Berg

Countess Natalya Rostova
Sonya Rostova
Natasha Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv
Petya Rostóv

Location:

Moscow 

Berg, who is the Rostóv's son-in-law by virtue of being married to their daughter Vera, takes leave from the army and visits the Rostóv home.  

Berg asks for a set of drawers that is on one of the carts, to give to Vera, and Ilya goes off in a temper.  Natasha explains to Petya and Berg that their parents are fighting as Ilya wants to carry wounded soldiers, but Natalya wants to carry belongings.

Natasha goes and shouts at her mother, and it is agreed that all of their belongings shall be unloaded and put in storage, so that no wounded soldiers get left behind.

The servants approach this task with renewed energy, but Sonya tries to make sure that some belongings are brought along.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 13

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Mávra Kuzmínichna
Petya Rostóv
Natasha Rostova

Location:

Moscow

Natasha is sitting in her room, being nostalgic, looking at her ball dresses and bows.  She had tried to help pack the house, but kept getting in the way.

She decides to go for a walk, and sees the family's former housekeeper, Mávra Kuzmínichna, talking to an officer at the gate.  Mávra says that they would be more comfortable staying at the Rostóv home, since the family were leaving.  Natasha agrees, and gets permission from her parents for wounded soldiers to stay at the house in their absence. 

Natalya is upset and trying to get the family to leave as soon as possible, to prevent young Petya from joining the battle at Three Hills on the morrow.

Volume 3: Book 11 - Chapter 12

Characters Present:

Countess Natalya Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv
Petya Rostóv
Natasha Rostova

Location:

Moscow


Natalya has spent months in a panic, as both of her sons, Nicholas and Petya have been away fighting.  She is, however, happy about Nicholas wanting to marry Princess Mary, as it could help the Rostov family financially.

Ilya finds a way to calm her by having Petya transferred for further training in Moscow, and by arranging other posts which don't actually involve fighting.

Since Petya has been home, he and Natasha have become silly.  They run up and down the halls of the house laughing, despite the household having to pack up because the French are coming.

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 1

Characters Present:

Napoleon Bonaparte
Tsar Alexander
Pfuel
General Bagratión
Petya Rostóv
Toll
Barclay de Tolley
Nevérovski

Location:

Russia

A general discussion of how the emperors approached the war, plus some highlights regarding army movement and town destruction.

Tsar Alexander left the army after a while, so that the men could be focused on one leader. 

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 21

Characters Present:

Petya Rostóv

Location: 

Moscow

Petya sneaks out to go and see Tsar Alexander, who has just arrived in Moscow, meaning to petition him directly to join the army.

The crowds are too great though, and Petya gets a crushed.

He is revived by some church people and waits outside the building where the Emperor is eating, for the Emperor to come out and address the crowd.

When Petya returns home, he tells his father that he should be allowed to join the army, or he will run away. The following day, Count Rostóv starts to inquire about safe posts to where Petya could be sent.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 20

Characters Present:

Natasha Rostova
Count Pierre Bezukhov
Uncle Shinshín
Natasha Rostova
Count Ilya Rostóv
Sonya Rostova
Countess Natalya Rostova
Petya Rostóv

Location: 

A small dinner party at the Rostóv home

Pierre arrives at the Rostóv's, and enters to find Natasha singing alone.  They have a conversation full of unspoken words and blushing.

They join the rest of the family, who are discussing the war. Petya, who is now 15, begs his father to join the army, but is told that he is too young.

Pierre becomes agitated by Natasha's stares at him, and leaves. Natasha follows him out, asking if she has upset him, and he only manages to kiss her softly before leaving, intending not to return. 

Volume 2: Book 7 - Chapter 7

Characters Present:

Uncle Rostóv

Nicholas Rostóv

Natasha Rostova

Petya Rostóv

Location: 

Uncle Rostóv's house in a little village called Mikháylovna

It is close to dinner time, and the hunting party find themselves close to Uncle Rostóv's home, and he invites Nicholas, Natasha and Petya for supper.  Uncle Rostóv's serfs marvel at Natasha being on a horse, and carrying hunting equipment.

A delicious supper is prepared the housekeeper, Anísya Fëdorovna, and while eating, Uncle Rostóv and Nicholas remark on Natasha's energy and how admirably manlike it is.  

After dinner, Anísya Fëdorovna plays some Russian folk-songs on guitar, and Natasha dances not like a countess, but like she has the spirit of the Russian people in her.

At 9pm, two traps arrive, sent from the Rostóv home, to bring Natasha, Nicholas and a now sleeping Petya home.