War and Peace · primary
Pierre Bezukhov
fictional · male
An illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, new to society.
Aliases
Monsieur Pierre · Pétya · Pierre · Count Bezúkhov · Peterkin · the Seeker · the Sufferer · the Postulant · the buffoon · Bezúkhov · Count Peter Kirílovich · Comte Pierre Besouhoff · Peter Kirílych · L’russe Besuhof · that wretched, profligate Pierre · the man who does not give his name · Monsieur Kiril · Uncle Pierre
Titles
Monsieur · Count · excellency · your excellency · militia officer
Appearances
- First: Book ONE · Chapter II · ¶ 10
- Latest: Book TEN · Chapter XXXI · ¶ 82
Relationships
Conversation · Anna Pávlovna Schérer
“Pierre again broke into the conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something inappropriate, she was unable to stop him.”
Conversation · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
““How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew.”
“'What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,' said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white hands.”
Conversation · Anna Pávlovna Schérer
“Anna Pávlovna turned toward him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his indiscretion, nodded and said: 'I hope to see you again, but I also hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.'”
Friendship · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“You are the first and only one to whom I mention this, because I like you.”
“his promise to Prince Andrew”
Friendship · Anatole Kurágin
“Pierre left his friend.”
Family (father) · Nicholas Rostov
“he was staying as usual at his father’s house.”
Social acquaintance · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“I am Borís, son of Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya.”
Social acquaintance · Countess Rostóva
“The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody.”
Friendship · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“Ah, my friend! ... believe me I suffer no less than you do, but be a man!”
Marriage · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s large, newly furnished Petersburg house.”
“he also remembered... Hélène’s death”
Friendship · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“I have to see him in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís.”
Rival · Private Dólokhov
“I challenge you!”
Conflict · Nicholas Rostov
“Rostóv looked inimically at Pierre”
Social acquaintance · Willarski
“the young Polish count, Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society”
Conflict · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“Why have you quarreled with Hélène, mon cher?”
Marriage · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“You know her husband, of course?”
Social acquaintance · Anna Pávlovna Schérer
“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to Pierre”
Friendship · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years.”
“‘Understand, my dear fellow, that outside this union all is filled with deceit and falsehood...’”
Friendship · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“She looked at him with her beautiful radiant eyes and seemed to say, 'I like you very much...'”
“I should like to tell everything to Pierre. He is kind and generous.”
Friendship · Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski
“A fine fellow—your friend—I like him!”
Rival · Borís Drubetskóy
“My God, I cannot get on with him at all. The cause of this is my egotism.”
Friendship · Natásha Rostóva
“Do you know I have entrusted him with our secret? I have known him from childhood. He has a heart of gold.”
“consider me your friend and if you want help, advice, or simply to open your heart to someone—not now, but when your mind is clearer--think of me!”
Friendship · Natásha Rostóva
“Pierre began, dropping his eyes with a feeling of pity for her”
“Then she is here still?” said Prince Andrew. “And Prince Kurágin?” he added quickly.”
Conflict · Anatole Kurágin
“You’re a scoundrel and a blackguard, and I don’t know what deprives me from the pleasure of smashing your head with this!”
Friendship · Count Ilyá Andréevich Rostóv
“Count Rostóv’s mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre”
Friendship · Private Dólokhov
“I am very glad to meet you here, Count,” he said aloud, regardless of the presence of strangers and in a particularly resolute and solemn tone.”
““I, I... I’ll go with you!” cried Pétya.”
Friendship · Private Dólokhov
“I regret the misunderstandings that occurred between us and should wish you not to have any ill feeling for me. I beg you to forgive me.”
Social acquaintance · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
“I have the honor to be one of your wife’s adorers. Is she well?”
Friendship · Borís Drubetskóy
“Borís was elegantly dressed, with a slightly martial touch appropriate to a campaign.”
Conversation · Bennigsen
“Bennigsen suddenly said to him: 'I don’t think this interests you?'”
Conversation · Bennigsen
“'On the contrary it’s very interesting!' replied Pierre not quite truthfully.”
Rival · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“It was unpleasant to Prince Andrew to meet people of his own set in general, and Pierre especially, for he reminded him of all the painful moments of his last visit to Moscow.”
Family (brother-in-law) · Anatole Kurágin
“Pierre was told of the death of his brother-in-law Anatole”
Family (brother-in-law) · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“Pierre was told of the death of... Prince Andrew.”
Social acquaintance · Count Rostopchín
“Without going home, Pierre took a cab and drove to see the Moscow commander in chief.”
Friendship · Count Rostopchín
“but probably realizing that he was shouting at Bezúkhov who so far was not guilty of anything, he added, taking Pierre’s hand in a friendly manner”
Social acquaintance · Sophia Danílovna
“Owing to the present state of things Sophia Danílovna has gone to the Torzhók estate with the children”
Friendship · Joseph Alexéevich
“he had gone to Joseph Alexéevich’s house, on the plea of sorting the deceased’s books and papers”
Friendship · Captain Ramballe
“Honestly, without speaking of what I owe you, I feel friendship for you.”
Enemy · Davout
““He is a Russian spy,” Davout interrupted, addressing another general who was present, but whom Pierre had not noticed.”
Social acquaintance · Davout
“At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.”
Friendship · Platón Karatáev
““Eh, lad, don’t fret!” said he, in the tender singsong caressing voice old Russian peasant women employ.”
“Karatáev had no attachments, friendships, or love, as Pierre understood them, but loved and lived affectionately with everything life brought him in contact with, particularly with man—not any particular man, but those with whom he happened to be.”
Conversation · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“he now often remembered his conversation with Prince Andrew”
Friendship · Váska Denísov
“Let me kiss you, dear old fellow! Oh, how fine, how splendid!”
“He was awaiting Pétya’s return in a state of agitation, anxiety, and self-reproach for having let him go.”
Friendship · Váska Denísov
“Yes, he’s a poor little fellow,” said Denísov, who evidently saw nothing shameful in this reminder.”
Friendship · Likhachëv
“I say, aren’t the flints in your pistols worn out? I brought some with me. Don’t you want any? You can have some.”
Friendship · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“the princess... had become fond of him.”
Friendship · Count Willarski
“Willarski... came to see him with the professions of friendship.”
Friendship · Italian officer
“The Italian seemed happy only when he could come to see Pierre, talk with him...”
Friendship · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“I was so glad to hear of your safety. It was the first piece of good news we had received for a long time.”
“Oh, yes. What a splendid man he is!”
Social acquaintance · Princess Mary Bolkónskaya
“I believe all this—and suddenly Princess Mary will tell her...”
Marriage · Natásha Rostóva
“Natásha had married in the early spring of 1813”
“You might at least have shown consideration for the children. I am nursing and my milk was spoiled....”
Family · Countess Rostóva
“The grown-up members of the family, not to mention his wife, were pleased to have back a friend whose presence made life run more smoothly and peacefully.”
Friendship · Countess Rostóva
“Countess Mary glanced at him and turned to Pierre.”
Social acquaintance · Nicholas Rostov
“Nicholas has the weakness of never agreeing with anything not generally accepted.”
Mentor · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“'But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.'”
“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.”
Parent (father) · Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
“this Pierre was his favorite”
Parent (uncle) · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“You know, Uncle promised me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís.”
Mentor · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command of an immense fortune.”
Patronage · Prince Vasíli Kurágin
“He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as Gentleman of the Bedchamber...”
Romantic attraction · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“And at that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his wife, and that it could not be otherwise.”
Romantic attraction · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“Oh, he loves me so!”
Mentor · Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev
“Help comes from God alone, but such measure of help as our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir.”
Mentor · Joseph Alexéevich
“the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich had revealed to him.”
“But I replied that I should be ashamed to do it, and suddenly everything vanished.”
Mentor (sponsor) · Willarski
“Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his voice.”
Financial (alimony) · Countess Hélène Bezúkhova
“150,000 alimony was sent to the countess;”
Romantic attraction · Natásha Rostóva
“Firmly convinced as he was of the truths revealed to him by his benefactor, and happy as he had been in perfecting his inner man, to which he had devoted himself with such ardor—all the zest of such a life vanished after the engagement of Andrew and Natásha”
“and I love her, and no one will ever know it.”
Mentor · Bennigsen
“Bennigsen spoke to a general who approached him, and began explaining the whole position of our troops.”
Mentor · Count Rostopchín
“I like you and don’t wish you any harm and—as you are only half my age—I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men of that stamp and to leave here as soon as possible.”
Patronage · Joseph Bazdéev
“Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdéev.”
Patronage · Captain Ramballe
“Can I do anything for you? Dispose of me. It is for life and death.”
Mentor · Váska Denísov
“Now lie down. We can still get a nap before morning.”
Mentor · little Prince Nicholas
““Uncle Pierre, you... no... If Papa were alive... would he agree with you?” he asked.”
Student · Prince Andrew Bolkónski
“'But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.'”
“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.”
Child (child) · Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov
“this Pierre was his favorite”
Child (nephew) · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“You know, Uncle promised me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís.”
Student · Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya
“But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command of an immense fortune.”
Student · Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev
“Help comes from God alone, but such measure of help as our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir.”
Student · Joseph Alexéevich
“the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich had revealed to him.”
“But I replied that I should be ashamed to do it, and suddenly everything vanished.”
Student · Willarski
“Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his voice.”
Student · Bennigsen
“Bennigsen spoke to a general who approached him, and began explaining the whole position of our troops.”
Student · Count Rostopchín
“I like you and don’t wish you any harm and—as you are only half my age—I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men of that stamp and to leave here as soon as possible.”
Student · Váska Denísov
“Now lie down. We can still get a nap before morning.”
Quotations
“This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov”
“Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor invalid”
“Pierre had been educated abroad”
“Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about the balance of power,”
“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning.”
“Pierre, who from the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him...”
““There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to Pierre.”
““I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre.”
““Very,” said Pierre.”
““Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me a whole month...”
“Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge red hands;”
““There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is not right.””
“What an argumentative fellow you are, Monsieur Pierre!”
“I can’t understand why he wants to go to the war,” replied Pierre”
“Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated”
“Pierre continually glanced at Prince Andrew;”
“Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and the good-natured expression still more apparent,”
“It seems funny to me,” said Pierre,”
“What am I? An illegitimate son!”
“Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole,”
“It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend.”
“Here is Pétya! Good man!”
“Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing!”
“his illegitimate son Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly”
“I think Pierre also is illegitimate”
“Pierre or Prince Vasíli”
“little Pétya, his youngest boy...”
“Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in Petersburg”
“My dear fellow, if you are going to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly”
“Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the middle of the drawing room...”
“Pierre approached, looking at her in a childlike way through his spectacles.”
“Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly.”
“Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshín had engaged him...”
“Pierre replied; 'but if you will be my teacher...'”
“Pierre followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage”
“Perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said Pierre when he reached the landing.”
“Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.”
“Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasíli with head erect majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three stars on his breast.”
“Pierre saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt”
“Pierre hesitated, not knowing what to do”
“Pierre and his companion they became silent”
“Ah, my friend! said he, taking Pierre by the elbow”
“Pierre! she said.”
“plain Monsieur Pierre”
“he is now Count Bezúkhov”
“Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself.”
“It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him.”
“In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of gentleness and affection.”
“When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and Hélène.”
“He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the altar with her.”
“Pierre, who was under such obligations to him”
“Only Pierre and Hélène sat silently side by side”
“Je vous aime!”
“Pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, 'And me too!'”
“Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room,”
“Pierre has arrived, and now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses”
“Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv.”
“Pierre absolutely disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared now to look at Dólokhov.”
“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him.”
“Pierre felt that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative.”
““All right,” said Pierre, still smiling in the same way.”
““So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word “three,” he went quickly forward...”
“Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs helplessly spread out...”
“Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest...”
“Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone.”
“Yes, I never loved her,” said he to himself; “I knew she was a depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself.”
“His father’s nature showed itself in Pierre.”
“jokes with Pétya”
“Pierre left for Petersburg.”
“Pierre looked at them over his spectacles unable to understand what they wanted.”
“Pierre asked himself.”
“Pierre again said to himself.”
“Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed.”
“Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look.”
“Count Bezúkhov”
“Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles.”
“Yes, yes, I am unhappy”
“I?... I’m going to Petersburg”
“On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival”
“Yes, I do wish it,” said he.”
“Yes... yes, I believe in God,” he said.”
“Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially obedience”
“Pierre replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,””
“Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room and at the people in it.”
“Pierre glanced at the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone through, and realized that he could not stop halfway.”
“on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had returned from a long journey”
“Pierre was sitting at home reading a book”
“you are placing her and me in the eyes of society”
“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!”
“Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was an illegitimate son”
“he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his father to fits of bloodthirsty rage”
“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to Pierre”
“when our troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon was beginning”
“Pierre went to the Kiev province”
“Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth”
“Pierre realized that he did not fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral life”
“In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg”
“Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward”
“Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his friend Bolkónski”
“Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so on.”
“One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,” said Pierre.”
“I lived like that, I lived for myself and ruined my life.”
“Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and apparently immersed in his own thoughts.”
“Freemasonry! No, don’t smile. Freemasonry is not a religious ceremonial sect, as I thought it was: Freemasonry is the best expression of the best, the eternal, aspects of humanity.”
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man’s highest happiness consists in striving to attain them.”
“Prince Andrew and Pierre drove up to the front entrance of the house at Bald Hills.”
“But what are ‘God’s folk’? asked Pierre.”
“he asked where the old prince was and whether he was expected back soon.”
“I have not found her yet, she is hiding now, sitting with her ‘God’s folk.’”
“Charmée de vous voir. Je suis très contente de vous voir, she said to Pierre as he kissed her hand.”
“Let me ask her, said Pierre.”
“But, dear me, that must be a fraud! said Pierre, naïvely.”
“Come, Pelagéya, I was joking, said Pierre.”
“Pierre listened to her attentively and seriously”
“Pierre was maintaining that a time would come when there would be no more wars”
“Pierre had attempted on his estates—and constantly changing from one thing to another had never accomplished—”
“he had expressed to Pierre, he diligently followed all that went on,”
“where he had talked with Pierre the year before.”
“everyone must know me, so that my life may not be lived for myself alone while others live so apart from it, but so that it may be reflected in them all, and they and I may live in harmony!”
“Pierre on returning to Petersburg after visiting his estates had involuntarily found himself in a leading position among the Petersburg Freemasons.”
“Bezúkhov had obtained the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade.”
“the Grand Master with irony and ill-will reproved Bezúkhov for his vehemence”
“Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.”
“his severity to his wife was wrong”
“Pierre late one night prepared for a journey”
“I am again living with my wife.”
“What did surprise him was that during these last two years his wife had succeeded in gaining the reputation 'd’ une femme charmante, aussi spirituelle que belle.'”
“Pierre was just the husband needed for a brilliant society woman.”
“he now protected himself from the danger of its repetition, first by not being a husband to his wife, and secondly by not allowing himself to suspect.”
“Pierre went on with his diary, and this is what he wrote in it during that time:”
“Pierre Bezúkhov, and the son of their district postmaster”
“the universal Freemason”
“Pierre, swaying his stout body”
“Natásha looked joyfully at the familiar face of Pierre”
“Pierre for the first time felt humiliated”
“Pierre’s gloomy, unhappy look struck her”
“Yes, I am very glad”
“Pierre, as one of the principal guests, had to sit down to boston with Count Rostóv, the general, and the colonel.”
“Well?” asked Pierre, seeing his friend’s strange animation with surprise, and noticing the glance he turned on Natásha as he rose.”
“Prince Andrew was sitting with Pierre”
“With Natásha Rostóva, yes?”
“Yes, yes”
“Prince Andrew brought with him Pierre”
“he has a heart of gold”
“Pétya ran in at the same time”
“'No barrier bars a Russian’s path'—we’ll go!”
“Her brother Pétya was upstairs too; with the man in attendance on him he was preparing fireworks...”
“Pierre without any apparent cause suddenly felt it impossible to go on living as before”
“Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her”
“Because I have noticed that when a young man comes on leave from Petersburg to Moscow it is usually with the object of marrying an heiress.”
“An undefined instinct told Pierre that these explanations, and repeated requests to be told the whole truth,”
“he put up at Pierre’s house”
“From the day his wife arrived in Moscow Pierre had been intending to go away somewhere, so as not to be near her.”
“Pierre had been avoiding Natásha because it seemed to him that his feeling for her was stronger than a married man’s should be for his friend’s fiancée.”
“Pierre could not conceive and could not imagine.”
“Pierre—only now realizing the danger to the old count, Nicholas, and Prince Andrew—promised to do as she wished.”
“Pierre did not stay for dinner, but left the room and went away at once.”
“Where you are, there is vice and evil!”
“You promised Countess Rostóva to marry her and were about to elope with her, is that so?”
“Pierre drove to Márya Dmítrievna’s to tell her of the fulfillment of her wish”
“It seemed to Pierre that it was his duty to conceal the whole affair and re-establish Natásha’s reputation.”
“Pierre received a note from Prince Andrew, informing him of his arrival and asking him to come to see him.”
“Pierre went into the study.”
“Pierre saw that Prince Andrew was going to speak of Natásha, and his broad face expressed pity and sympathy.”
“Pierre took the packet.”
“Pierre went to the Rostóvs’ to fulfill the commission entrusted to him.”
“Till then he had reproached her in his heart and tried to despise her, but he now felt so sorry for her that there was no room in his soul for reproach.”
“If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!”
“she was glad to see only one person, Pierre.”
“it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.”
“Pierre, after leaving the Rostóvs’ with Natásha’s grateful look fresh in his mind”
“One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon”
“Pierre got the answer he sought”
“Pierre came early so as to find them alone.”
“Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.”
“Oh yes, I sent that announcement.”
“I think... that he has nothing to forgive....”
“They say we’re already near Smolénsk.”
“Count Peter Kirílych, you too will have to mount a horse.”
“Pierre was agitated and undecided.”
“Pierre was there too, buttoned up since early morning in a nobleman’s uniform that had become too tight for him.”
“Pierre suddenly saw an outlet for his excitement.”
“Pierre continued, “we should ask the Emperor—most respectfully ask His Majesty—to let us know the number of our troops and the position in which our army and our forces now are, and then...””
“Pierre wished to say that he was ready to sacrifice his money, his serfs, or himself, only one ought to know the state of affairs in order to be able to improve it, but he was unable to speak.”
“Pierre stood rather far off and could not hear all that the Emperor said”
“Pierre was among those who saw him come out from the merchants’ hall”
“Pierre’s one feeling at the moment was a desire to show that he was ready to go all lengths”
““Quand on... No, no,” she said to the militia officer, “you won’t catch me. Speak of the sun and you see its rays!” and she smiled amiably at Pierre.”
““Oh, don’t talk to me of my regiment,” replied Pierre, kissing his hostess’ hand and taking a seat beside her.”
““Among those whom Julie’s guests happened to choose to gossip about were the Rostóvs.””
““Get over what?” inquired Pierre, looking displeased.”
““No, madame!” Pierre continued in a tone of displeasure, “I have not taken on myself the role of Natalie Rostóva’s knight at all, and have not been to their house for nearly a month. But I cannot understand the cruelty...””
““Really? Where is she? I should like very much to see her,” said Pierre.”
“When Pierre returned home he was handed two of Rostopchín’s broadsheets that had been brought that day.”
“But, above all, the French will be here any day now, so what are we waiting for? I ask just one thing of you, cousin,” she went on, “arrange for me to be taken to Petersburg. Whatever I may be, I can’t live under Bonaparte’s rule.”
“Although that patience did come out, Pierre did not join the army, but remained in deserted Moscow ever in the same state of agitation, irresolution, and alarm, yet at the same time joyfully expecting something terrible.”
“Pierre was leaving Mozháysk.”
“The strange thought that of the thousands of men, young and old, who had stared with merry surprise at his hat... amazed Pierre.”
“Pierre stepped out of his carriage”
“I must ask someone who knows,” he thought”
“No, I’ve come on my own,” answered Pierre”
“Pierre recognized him at once by his peculiar figure”
“Pierre looked about him.”
“Pierre looked round.”
“I should like to start from the Moskvá River and ride round the whole position.”
“Pierre took off his hat and bowed respectfully to Kutúzov.”
“Borís, with his courtierlike adroitness, stepped up to Pierre’s side near Kutúzov.”
“Pierre paid no special attention to it”
“Pierre listened to him, straining each faculty to understand”
“Pierre’s doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters”
“Prince Andrew looked out of the shed and saw Pierre”
“I have come... simply... you know... come... it interests me”
“Pierre’s huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army”
“So you think we shall win tomorrow’s battle?”
“Pierre ordered his groom to get the horses ready”
“Pierre asked, waking up.”
“Pierre’s horses standing before the hut.”
“Pierre looked at the scene before him, spellbound by beauty.”
“Pierre wished to be there with that smoke, those shining bayonets, that movement, and those sounds.”
“I’ll go there too, I too!” thought Pierre, and followed the general.”
“Beside himself with terror Pierre jumped up and ran back to the battery”
“Pierre put out his hands and seized the man (a French officer) by the shoulder”
“Pierre ran down the slope stumbling over the dead and wounded”
“Pierre again went up onto the knoll where he had spent over an hour”
“he thought, aimlessly going toward a crowd of stretcher bearers moving from the battlefield”
“at the very skirmish at which Pierre had been present”
“informing him of her intention to marry N.N. and of her having embraced the one true faith”
“Pierre, having run down from Raévski’s battery a second time”
“I, I... By rights I am a militia officer”
“Peter Kirílych.”
“Pierre laid his head on the pillow”
“To be a soldier, just a soldier!” thought Pierre”
“Pierre got up and, having told them to harness and overtake him”
“Pierre offered the use of his carriage, which had overtaken him”
“Pierre reached Moscow.”
“Pierre took a cab and drove to see the Moscow commander in chief.”
“But military men have told me that it is impossible to fight in the town,” said Pierre, “and that the position...”
“I have heard nothing,” Pierre replied unconcernedly.”
“And who is that?” he asked, indicating a short old man...”
“Pierre was summoned to the commander in chief.”
“Yes, I am a Mason,” Pierre replied.”
““Why, nothing,” answered Pierre without raising his eyes or changing the thoughtful expression of his face.”
“When left alone at last he opened and read his wife’s letter.”
“a police officer, had come from Count Rostopchín to know whether Count Bezúkhov had left or was leaving the town.”
“no one of Bezúkhov’s household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was.”
“Pétya was in the porch, engaged in giving out weapons to the servants”
“Do you know what it’s about?” Pétya asked Natásha.”
“It’s because Papa wanted to give up all the carts to the wounded,” said Pétya.”
“it’s Bezúkhov!”
“the Rostóvs all saw Pierre—or someone extraordinarily like him—in a coachman’s coat”
“Peter Kirílovich, come here! We have recognized you!”
“The count, Pétya, Madame Schoss, Mávra Kuzmínichna, and Vasílich came into the drawing room”
“the men whom Pétya had armed with swords and daggers”
“Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdéev.”
“he could not for some time make out where he was and what was expected of him.”
“Pierre spent alone in his benefactor’s study”
“Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September.”
“Pierre was in a state bordering on insanity.”
“He had gone to Joseph Alexéevich’s house, on the plea of sorting the deceased’s books and papers.”
“Pierre went to the Three Hills gate.”
“Pierre knew this, but instead of acting he only thought about his undertaking.”
“Yes, alone, for the sake of all, I must do it or perish!”
“Pierre, having decided that until he had carried out his design he would disclose neither his identity nor his knowledge of French”
“Pierre, snatching away the pistol and throwing it down, ran up to the officer and addressed him in French”
“I am Russian,” he said quickly.”
“Pierre the latter again thought it his duty to assure him that he was not French”
“Monsieur Pierre, you say.... That’s all I want to know.”
“I was there,” said Pierre.”
“The Emperor,” Pierre repeated, and his face suddenly became sad and embarrassed, “is the Emperor...?”
“Pierre then explained that he had loved this woman from his earliest years”
“On the third of September Pierre awoke late.”
“Pierre hastily took the blunt jagged dagger in a green sheath”
“Moscow was on fire in several places.”
“As soon as she saw Pierre, the woman almost threw herself at his feet.”
“A child? shouted a Frenchman from above.”
“Pierre got back with his little burden to the Gruzínski garden”
“Here, take the child!” said Pierre peremptorily”
“I will not tell you who I am. I am your prisoner—take me!” Pierre suddenly replied in French.”
“her husband to whom she had written (that wretched, profligate Pierre)”
“the officer and soldiers who had arrested Pierre”
“this big, stout man in a peasant coat”
“Pierre felt sad at hearing them making fun of him.”
“Pierre like the others was questioned as to who he was”
“Pierre replied in a rather tragic manner that he was restoring to its parents a child he had saved from the flames.”
“the general with the white mustache and red flushed face.”
“Pierre and thirteen others were moved to the coach house of a merchant’s house near the Crimean bridge.”
“the hardest of all for Pierre.”
“naming Pierre as “the man who does not give his name.””
“Pierre had often been in other days”
“Pierre went close up to him”
“No, monseigneur, you cannot have known me. I am a militia officer and have not quitted Moscow.”
“Bezúkhov.”
“Pierre—depriving him of life, of everything, annihilating him.”
“Pierre was sixth”
“Pierre did not understand that he was saved”
“Pierre ran up to the post”
“Pierre glanced into the pit”
“Pierre gazed now with dazed eyes”
“Pierre was separated from the rest of the prisoners”
“his faith in the right ordering of the universe, in humanity, in his own soul, and in God, had been destroyed”
“but why did they shoot those poor fellows? The last one was hardly twenty.”
“And have you been here long? Pierre asked as he munched the last of the potato.”
“when Pierre saw his neighbor next morning at dawn”
“but Pierre felt that in spite of Karatáev’s affectionate tenderness for him”
“What sunshine, Monsieur Kiril!”
“Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him.”
“While Pierre was repeating what he had been told about the army leaving Moscow.”
“Pierre had been taken prisoner”
“their prisoner’s name was Count Bezúkhov”
“Pierre believed it without any mental reservation”
“Pierre thought and spoke with enthusiasm of that month of captivity”
“Pierre felt a new joy and strength in life”
“Pierre felt that their opinion placed responsibilities upon him”
“Pierre, girt with a rope round his waist and wearing shoes Karatáev had made for him”
“You know, Sokolóv, they are not all going away!”
“In the corporal’s changed face, in the sound of his voice, in the stirring and deafening noise of the drums, he recognized that mysterious, callous force”
“There were about thirty officers, with Pierre among them”
“Pierre stood pressed against the wall of a charred house, listening to that noise which mingled in his imagination with the roll of the drums.”
“Pierre turned back, not to his companions by the campfire, but to an unharnessed cart where there was nobody.”
“Ha-ha-ha!” laughed Pierre. And he said aloud to himself: “The soldier did not let me pass.”
“Pétya rode silently”
“Pétya, rapidly turning his head, looked now at the drummer boy, now at Denísov”
“Who is he?” asked Pétya”
“Oh, yes,” said Pétya, nodding at the first words Denísov uttered”
“he said to Pétya.”
“Pétya badly wanted to laugh, but noticed that they all refrained from laughing.”
“Tíkhon followed behind and Pétya heard the Cossacks laughing with him and at him.”
“Denísov at once cheered up and, calling Pétya to him, said: “Well, tell me about yourself.””
“Pétya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joined his regiment”
“Pétya begged so piteously to be sent that the general could not refuse”
“Pétya was in an ecstatic childish state of love for all men”
“I’ll call him,” said Pétya.”
“Ah, c’est vous!” said Pétya.”
“Pétya’s attention from the drummer boy”
“I, I... I’ll go with you!”
“I? Yes, yes, certainly!”
“I will certainly go to the French camp with Dólokhov”
“Pétya, his heart in his mouth with excitement, rode by his side.”
“Really! he cried, you are such a hero! Oh, how fine, how splendid! How I love you!”
“Pétya found Denísov in the passage.”
“I don’t want to sleep yet.”
“Pétya recognized his own horse, which he called 'Karabákh'”
“Pétya gave the Cossack a detailed account not only of his ride but also of his object”
“Pétya woke up.”
“Pétya held his horse by the bridle, impatiently awaiting the order to mount.”
““Vasíli Dmítrich, entrust me with some commission! Please... for God’s sake...!” said he.”
“It seemed to Pétya that at the moment the shot was fired it suddenly became as bright as noon.”
““Hurrah!... Lads!... ours!” shouted Pétya, and giving rein to his excited horse he galloped forward along the village street.”
““Too late again!” flashed through Pétya’s mind and he galloped on to the place from which the rapid firing could be heard.”
““Wait?... Hurrah-ah-ah!” shouted Pétya, and without pausing a moment galloped to the place whence came the sounds of firing and where the smoke was thickest.”
“Pétya was galloping along the courtyard, but instead of holding the reins he waved both his arms about rapidly and strangely, slipping farther and farther to one side in his saddle.”
““I am used to something sweet. Raisins, fine ones... take them all!” he recalled Pétya’s words.”
“Among the Russian prisoners rescued by Denísov and Dólokhov was Pierre Bezúkhov.”
“among whom was Pierre”
“Pierre had rejoined Karatáev”
“Pierre kept away from him”
“Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being”
“Pierre, having examined his feet by the campfire”
“Only now did Pierre realize the full strength of life in man”
“Still less did Pierre think about himself”
“Pierre was going uphill along the muddy, slippery road”
“Pierre had got up and gone to the next one”
“Pierre now listened to that tale as to something new”
“Pierre’s soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself”
“his eye fell on Pierre’s large and striking figure”
“Pierre was not sufficiently sure of himself”
“Pierre heard it plainly”
“Pierre looked at the soldier”
“Pierre went up to the fire, ate some roast horseflesh, lay down with his back to the fire, and immediately fell asleep.”
““Karatáev!” came to Pierre’s mind.”
“Pierre woke up.”
“Pierre recognized the blue-gray dog, sitting beside the soldier, wagging its tail.”
“Pierre closed his eyes, seeing a vision of the country in summertime mingled with memories of bathing and of the liquid, vibrating globe, and he sank into water so that it closed over his head.”
“Pierre sobbed as he sat among them and could not utter a word.”
“Pétya’s death had torn from her half her life.”
“Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over.”
“A joyous feeling of freedom—that complete inalienable freedom natural to man which he had first experienced at the first halt outside Moscow—filled Pierre’s soul during his convalescence.”
“In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all.”
“You, who have suffered so from the French, do not even feel animosity toward them.”
“During the last days of Pierre’s stay in Orël his old Masonic acquaintance Count Willarski, who had introduced him to the lodge in 1807, came to see him.”
“Pierre went to Moscow”
“it was Natásha and he loved her”
““Yes, is there a family free from sorrow now?” said Pierre, addressing Natásha.”
““What can one say or think of as a consolation?” said Pierre.”
““Yes, yes, that is really true,” Pierre hastily interrupted her.”
““And because,” Pierre continued, “only one who believes that there is a God ruling us can bear a loss such as hers and... yours.””
“Pierre’s confusion had now almost vanished, but at the same time he felt that his freedom had also completely gone.”
“Pierre listened to her with lips parted and eyes fixed upon her full of tears.”
“At that moment of emotional tenderness young Nicholas’ face, which resembled his father’s, affected Pierre so much that when he had kissed the boy he got up quickly, took out his handkerchief, and went to the window.”
“Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining room;”
““Do you take vodka, Count?” asked Princess Mary,”
““People speak of misfortunes and sufferings,” remarked Pierre,”
“It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep that night.”
“I must do everything that she and I may be man and wife,” he told himself.”
“At breakfast Pierre told the princess, his cousin, that he had been to see Princess Mary the day before and had there met—“Whom do you think? Natásha Rostóva!”
“There was nothing in Pierre’s soul now at all like what had troubled it during his courtship of Hélène.”
“That was the only doubt often troubling Pierre.”
“A joyful, unexpected frenzy, of which he had thought himself incapable, possessed him.”
“When dealing with the affairs and papers of his dead wife, her memory aroused in him no feeling but pity that she had not known the bliss he now knew.”
“Often in afterlife Pierre recalled this period of blissful insanity.”
“Pierre’s insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed 'good qualities' in people before loving them;”
“she spoke little of Pierre”
“all that Pierre had said”
“When Pierre and his wife had left”
“thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezúkhov”
“the general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife’s thumb”
“Pierre one day told her of Rousseau’s view”
“Pierre was one of the principal founders”
“she frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches”
“But how is Pétya?”
“this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast”
“Pétya was at death’s door”
“Pierre’s return was a joyful and important event”
“Pierre whom he saw only occasionally”
“Pierre felt the different outlooks of these various worlds”
“Pierre, with the aid of a list his wife drew up, had now bought everything”
“Adèle tempted me: she kept on telling me to buy it,” returned Pierre.”
“When Pierre and his wife entered the drawing room”
“Pierre answered the countess’ questions”
“Pierre’s voice was heard saying”
“said Pierre, giving his hand to the Swiss tutor”
“said Pierre, looking round at his listeners”
“Pierre maintained the contrary”
“I lost my temper. But he is impossible: such a child!”
“Of course he is right there,” said Countess Mary, “but he forgets that we have other duties nearer to us...”
“Natásha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk”
“Prince Sergéy is a fine fellow and clever.”
“No, he would not have approved”
“Pierre was galloping”
“Why have you come here, Count?”
“I congratulate you, Count, on your baptism of fire!”
“the knoll to which Pierre ascended was that famous one afterwards known to the Russians as the Knoll Battery or Raévski’s Redoubt”
“the intrusion of Pierre’s nonmilitary figure in a white hat made an unpleasant impression”
“I’ll go,” said Pierre.”