The cell in which Maslova was imprisoned was a large room 21 feet long...

Maslova reached her cell only at six in the evening, tired and footsor...

"shameful and stupid, horrid and shameful!" Nekhludoff kept saying to ...

Princess Sophia Vasilievna, Missy's mother, had finished her very elab...

"Please to walk in, your excellency," said the friendly, fat doorkeepe...

His conversation with the president and the fresh air quieted Nekhludo...

Peter Gerasimovitch's assumption was correct.The president came back f...

At last the president finished his speech, and lifting the list of que...

After the last words of the prisoners had been heard, the form in whic...

When the examination of the articles of material evidence was finished...

But, as if to spite him, the case dragged out to a great length. After...

In this state of mind Nekhludoff left the Court and went into the jury...

The next day the gay, handsome, and brilliant Schonbock joined Nekhlud...

And so the evening passed and night came. The doctor went to bed. Nekh...

When he returned from church Nekhludoff broke the fast with his aunts ...

For Nekhludoff this early mass remained for ever after one of the brig...

Nekhludoff went to visit his aunts because their estate lay near the r...

After that Nekhludoff did not see Katusha for more than three years. W...

"Yes, this was Katusha."The relations between Nekhludoff and Katusha h...

When the reading of the indictment was over, the president, after havi...

The indictment ran as follows: On the 17th of January, 18--, in the lo...

When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male pris...

The president, having looked through some papers and put a few questio...

At last Matthew Nikitich also arrived, and the usher, a thin man, with...

The president, who had to take the chair, had arrived early. The presi...

The corridors of the Court were already full of activity. The attendan...

When Nekhludoff had finished his coffee, he went to his study to look ...

When Maslova, wearied out by the long walk, reached the building, acco...

The story of the prisoner Maslova's life was a very common one.Maslova...

Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the...

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From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mer...

History examines the manifestations of man’s free will in connection w...

Thus our conception of free will and inevitability gradually diminishe...

For the solution of the question of free will or inevitability, histor...

If history dealt only with external phenomena, the establishment of th...

When an event is taking place people express their opinions and wishes...

Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not dependent on time, c...

The life of the nations is not contained in the lives of a few men, fo...

Having abandoned the conception of the ancients as to the divine subje...

A locomotive is moving. Someone asks: “What moves it?” A peasant says ...

What force moves the nations?Biographical historians and historians of...

History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into ...

Natásha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband a...

The conversation at supper was not about politics or societies, but tu...

Soon after this the children came in to say good night. They kissed ev...

When Pierre and his wife entered the drawing room the countess was in ...

As in every large household, there were at Bald Hills several perfectl...

Two months previously when Pierre was already staying with the Rostóvs...

Natásha had married in the early spring of 1813, and in 1820 already h...

It was the eve of St. Nicholas, the fifth of December, 1820. Natásha h...

One matter connected with his management sometimes worried Nicholas, a...

In the winter of 1813 Nicholas married Princess Mary and moved to Bald...

At the beginning of winter Princess Mary came to Moscow. From reports ...

Natásha’s wedding to Bezúkhov, which took place in 1813, was the last ...

The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels. The w...

The fundamental and essential significance of the European events of t...

If we assume as the historians do that great men lead humanity to the ...

Seven years had passed. The storm-tossed sea of European history had s...

After Pierre’s departure that first evening, when Natásha had said to ...

There was nothing in Pierre’s soul now at all like what had troubled i...

It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep that night. He pace...

Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining room; a few minut...

“She has come to stay with me,” said Princess Mary. “The count and cou...

At the end of January Pierre went to Moscow and stayed in an annex of ...

It would be difficult to explain why and whither ants whose heap has b...

In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all. In appearance he wa...

As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the phys...

Next day the field marshal gave a dinner and ball which the Emperor ho...

The French army melted away at the uniform rate of a mathematical prog...

The Fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge of the forest. A hu...

One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched condi...

When the troops reached their night’s halting place on the eighth of N...

The fifth of November was the first day of what is called the battle o...

In 1812 and 1813 Kutúzov was openly accused of blundering. The Emperor...

After the encounter at Vyázma, where Kutúzov had been unable to hold b...

Princess Mary postponed her departure. Sónya and the count tried to re...

Besides a feeling of aloofness from everybody Natásha was feeling a sp...

When seeing a dying animal a man feels a sense of horror: substance si...

What Russian, reading the account of the last part of the campaign of ...

This campaign consisted in a flight of the French during which they di...

The movements of the Russian and French armies during the campaign fro...

After the twenty-eighth of October when the frosts began, the flight o...

The stores, the prisoners, and the marshal’s baggage train stopped at ...

“À vos places!” * suddenly cried a voice.* “To your places.”A pleasant...

At midday on the twenty-second of October Pierre was going uphill alon...

During the whole of their march from Moscow no fresh orders had been i...

The men rapidly picked out their horses in the semidarkness, tightened...

Having returned to the watchman’s hut, Pétya found Denísov in the pass...

Having put on French greatcoats and shakos, Pétya and Dólokhov rode to...

The arrival of Dólokhov diverted Pétya’s attention from the drummer bo...

Pétya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joine...

After talking for some time with the esaul about next day’s attack, wh...

The rain had stopped, and only the mist was falling and drops from the...

It was a warm rainy autumn day. The sky and the horizon were both the ...

The so-called partisan war began with the entry of the French into Smo...

One of the most obvious and advantageous departures from the so-called...

The Battle of Borodinó, with the occupation of Moscow that followed it...

A man in motion always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to g...

From the time he received this news to the end of the campaign all Kut...

Kutúzov like all old people did not sleep much at night. He often fell...

It was a warm, dark, autumn night. It had been raining for four days. ...

In the early days of October another envoy came to Kutúzov with a lett...

Through the cross streets of the Khamóvniki quarter the prisoners marc...

The French evacuation began on the night between the sixth and seventh...

Four weeks had passed since Pierre had been taken prisoner and though ...

Early in the morning of the sixth of October Pierre went out of the sh...

But strange to say, all these measures, efforts, and plans—which were ...

With regard to military matters, Napoleon immediately on his entry int...

Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa; ther...

Meanwhile another column was to have attacked the French from the fron...

Next day the troops assembled in their appointed places in the evening...

Next day the decrepit Kutúzov, having given orders to be called early,...

Bennigsen’s note and the Cossack’s information that the left flank of ...

The Russian army was commanded by Kutúzov and his staff, and also by t...

The famous flank movement merely consisted in this: after the advance ...

Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, bu...

Not only did Prince Andrew know he would die, but he felt that he was ...

When Natásha opened Prince Andrew’s door with a familiar movement and ...

When Princess Mary heard from Nicholas that her brother was with the R...

Twenty-three soldiers, three officers, and two officials were confined...

After the execution Pierre was separated from the rest of the prisoner...

From Prince Shcherbátov’s house the prisoners were led straight down t...

On the eighth of September an officer—a very important one judging by ...

The officer and soldiers who had arrested Pierre treated him with host...

Sónya’s letter written from Tróitsa, which had come as an answer to Ni...

The dreadful news of the battle of Borodinó, of our losses in killed a...

On reaching Moscow after her meeting with Rostóv, Princess Mary had fo...

Nicholas sat leaning slightly forward in an armchair, bending closely ...

It is natural for us who were not living in those days to imagine that...

Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutúzov re...

Anna Pávlovna’s presentiment was in fact fulfilled. Next day during th...

In Petersburg at that time a complicated struggle was being carried on...

Having run through different yards and side streets, Pierre got back w...

On the third of September Pierre awoke late. His head was aching, the ...

Seven days had passed since Prince Andrew found himself in the ambulan...

The valet, returning to the cottage, informed the count that Moscow wa...

The glow of the first fire that began on the second of September was w...

When the French officer went into the room with Pierre the latter agai...

Pierre, having decided that until he had carried out his design he wou...

The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, ...

Toward four o’clock in the afternoon Murat’s troops were entering Mosc...

Toward nine o’clock in the morning, when the troops were already movin...

On the evening of the first of September, after his interview with Kut...

From an unfinished house on the Varvárka, the ground floor of which wa...

Meanwhile, the city itself was deserted. There was hardly anyone in th...

The Russian troops were passing through Moscow from two o’clock at nig...

Meanwhile Moscow was empty. There were still people in it, perhaps a f...

Kutúzov’s order to retreat through Moscow to the Ryazán road was issue...

For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living...

Before two o’clock in the afternoon the Rostóvs’ four carriages, packe...

Berg, the Rostóvs’ son-in-law, was already a colonel wearing the order...

Moscow’s last day had come. It was a clear bright autumn day, a Sunday...

Madame Schoss, who had been out to visit her daughter, increased the c...

On Saturday, the thirty-first of August, everything in the Rostóvs’ ho...

The Rostóvs remained in Moscow till the first of September, that is, t...

In the middle of this fresh tale Pierre was summoned to the commander ...

On the thirtieth of August Pierre reached Moscow. Close to the gates o...

Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself...

Toward the end of the battle of Borodinó, Pierre, having run down from...

Hélène understood that the question was very simple and easy from the ...

Hélène, having returned with the court from Vílna to Petersburg, found...

At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreatin...

The Council of War began to assemble at two in the afternoon in the be...

When Ermólov, having been sent by Kutúzov to inspect the position, tol...

The forces of a dozen European nations burst into Russia. The Russian ...

Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind....

Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and var...

The terrible spectacle of the battlefield covered with dead and wounde...

One of the doctors came out of the tent in a bloodstained apron, holdi...

Prince Andrew’s regiment was among the reserves which till after one o...

On the rug-covered bench where Pierre had seen him in the morning sat ...

Napoleon’s generals—Davout, Ney, and Murat, who were near that region ...

The chief action of the battle of Borodinó was fought within the seven...

Beside himself with terror Pierre jumped up and ran back to the batter...

Having descended the hill the general after whom Pierre was galloping ...

On returning to Górki after having seen Prince Andrew, Pierre ordered ...

On returning from a second inspection of the lines, Napoleon remarked:...

Many historians say that the French did not win the battle of Borodinó...

On the twenty-fifth of August, so his historians tell us, Napoleon spe...

On August 25, the eve of the battle of Borodinó, M. de Beausset, prefe...

The officers were about to take leave, but Prince Andrew, apparently r...

On that bright evening of August 25, Prince Andrew lay leaning on his ...

From Górki, Bennigsen descended the highroad to the bridge which, when...

Staggering amid the crush, Pierre looked about him.“Count Peter Kirílo...

Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen...

On the morning of the twenty-fifth Pierre was leaving Mozháysk. At the...

On the twenty-fourth of August the battle of the Shevárdino Redoubt wa...

When Pierre returned home he was handed two of Rostopchín’s broadsheet...

After the Emperor had left Moscow, life flowed on there in its usual c...

“Well, that’s all!” said Kutúzov as he signed the last of the document...

On receiving command of the armies Kutúzov remembered Prince Andrew an...

“Well, is she pretty? Ah, friend—my pink one is delicious; her name is...

On the seventeenth of August Rostóv and Ilyín, accompanied by Lavrúshk...

For a long time that night Princess Mary sat by the open window of her...

An hour later Dunyásha came to tell the princess that Dron had come, a...

After her father’s funeral Princess Mary shut herself up in her room a...

Until Prince Andrew settled in Boguchárovo its owners had always been ...

Princess Mary was not in Moscow and out of danger as Prince Andrew sup...

While this was taking place in Petersburg the French had already passe...

Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human ...

From Smolénsk the troops continued to retreat, followed by the enemy. ...

Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Bolkónski’s estate, lay forty miles east f...

When Michael Ivánovich returned to the study with the letter, the old ...

The day after his son had left, Prince Nicholas sent for Princess Mary...

Napoleon began the war with Russia because he could not resist going t...

At that moment Count Rostopchín with his protruding chin and alert eye...

Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an immense number of carriag...

After the definite refusal he had received, Pétya went to his room and...

A few intimate friends were dining with the Rostóvs that day, as usual...

From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostóvs’ with Natásha’s gr...

At the beginning of July more and more disquieting reports about the w...

Natásha was calmer but no happier. She not merely avoided all external...

On receiving news of Natásha’s illness, the countess, though not quite...

Rostóv, with his keen sportsman’s eye, was one of the first to catch s...

It was nearly three o’clock but no one was yet asleep, when the quarte...

In the tavern, before which stood the doctor’s covered cart, there wer...

Before the beginning of the campaign, Rostóv had received a letter fro...

Prince Andrew’s eyes were still following Pfuel out of the room when C...

This letter had not yet been presented to the Emperor when Barclay, on...

Prince Andrew reached the general headquarters of the army at the end ...

After his interview with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrew went to Peter...

After all that Napoleon had said to him—those bursts of anger and the ...

Though Balashëv was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury...

Davout was to Napoleon what Arakchéev was to Alexander—though not a co...

At two in the morning of the fourteenth of June, the Emperor, having s...

The Emperor of Russia had, meanwhile, been in Vílna for more than a mo...

On the twenty-ninth of May Napoleon left Dresden, where he had spent t...

From the close of the year 1811 an intensified arming and concentratin...

That same evening Pierre went to the Rostóvs’ to fulfill the commissio...

Pierre drove to Márya Dmítrievna’s to tell her of the fulfillment of h...

Pierre did not stay for dinner, but left the room and went away at onc...

From the day his wife arrived in Moscow Pierre had been intending to g...

Márya Dmítrievna, having found Sónya weeping in the corridor, made her...

Anatole went out of the room and returned a few minutes later wearing ...

Anatole had lately moved to Dólokhov’s. The plan for Natalie Rostóva’s...

On returning late in the evening Sónya went to Natásha’s room, and to ...

Morning came with its cares and bustle. Everyone got up and began to m...

Count Rostóv took the girls to Countess Bezúkhova’s. There were a good...

The day after the opera the Rostóvs went nowhere and nobody came to se...

Anatole Kurágin was staying in Moscow because his father had sent him ...

During the entr’acte a whiff of cold air came into Hélène’s box, the d...

The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was so...

That evening the Rostóvs went to the Opera, for which Márya Dmítrievna...

Next day, by Márya Dmítrievna’s advice, Count Rostóv took Natásha to c...

At the end of January old Count Rostóv went to Moscow with Natásha and...

Borís had not succeeded in making a wealthy match in Petersburg, so wi...

Princess Mary as she sat listening to the old men’s talk and faultfind...

In 1811 there was living in Moscow a French doctor—Métivier—who had ra...

At the beginning of winter Prince Nicholas Bolkónski and his daughter ...

After Prince Andrew’s engagement to Natásha, Pierre without any appare...

Soon after the Christmas holidays Nicholas told his mother of his love...

When they all drove back from Pelagéya Danílovna’s, Natásha, who alway...

Pelagéya Danílovna Melyukóva, a broadly built, energetic woman wearing...

“Does it ever happen to you,” said Natásha to her brother, when they s...

Christmas came and except for the ceremonial Mass, the solemn and wear...

Count Ilyá Rostóv had resigned the position of Marshal of the Nobility...

Toward evening Ilágin took leave of Nicholas, who found that they were...

The old count went home, and Natásha and Pétya promised to return very...

Nicholas Rostóv meanwhile remained at his post, waiting for the wolf. ...

The old count, who had always kept up an enormous hunting establishmen...

The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an...

After reaching home Nicholas was at first serious and even dull. He wa...

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor—idleness—was a con...

In the middle of the summer Princess Mary received an unexpected lette...

During that year after his son’s departure, Prince Nicholas Bolkónski’...

No betrothal ceremony took place and Natásha’s engagement to Bolkónski...

Prince Andrew needed his father’s consent to his marriage, and to obta...

Next day, having been invited by the count, Prince Andrew dined with t...

Pierre, as one of the principal guests, had to sit down to boston with...

One morning Colonel Berg, whom Pierre knew as he knew everybody in Mos...

Next day Prince Andrew called at a few houses he had not visited befor...

Next day Prince Andrew thought of the ball, but his mind did not dwell...

After Prince Andrew, Borís came up to ask Natásha for a dance, and the...

Suddenly everybody stirred, began talking, and pressed forward and the...

Natásha had not had a moment free since early morning and had not once...

On the thirty-first of December, New Year’s Eve, 1809 - 10 an old gran...

One night when the old countess, in nightcap and dressing jacket, with...

Natásha was sixteen and it was the year 1809, the very year to which s...

The Rostóvs’ monetary affairs had not improved during the two years th...

Pierre went on with his diary, and this is what he wrote in it during ...

At that time, as always happens, the highest society that met at court...

Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded. For three ...

Nearly two years before this, in 1808, Pierre on returning to Petersbu...

During the first weeks of his stay in Petersburg Prince Andrew felt th...

While waiting for the announcement of his appointment to the committee...

Prince Andrew arrived in Petersburg in August, 1809. It was the time w...

Next morning, having taken leave of no one but the count, and not wait...

Prince Andrew had to see the Marshal of the Nobility for the district ...

Prince Andrew had spent two years continuously in the country.All the ...

In 1809 the intimacy between “the world’s two arbiters,” as Napoleon a...

The Emperor rode to the square where, facing one another, a battalion ...

Rostóv had come to Tilsit the day least suitable for a petition on Den...

Having returned to the regiment and told the commander the state of De...

Going along the corridor, the assistant led Rostóv to the officers’ wa...

In June the battle of Friedland was fought, in which the Pávlograds di...

In April the troops were enlivened by news of the Emperor’s arrival, b...

When returning from his leave, Rostóv felt, for the first time, how cl...

The pilgrim woman was appeased and, being encouraged to talk, gave a l...

It was getting dusk when Prince Andrew and Pierre drove up to the fron...

In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove ...

Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state ...

Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to th...

Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and tho...

The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere on...

When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte h...

The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of th...

The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting ...

Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not ...

On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, ...

“I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not mistake...

After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the T...

It was long since Rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he did ...

To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, but ...

An hour and a half later most of the players were but little intereste...

For two days after that Rostóv did not see Dólokhov at his own or at D...

Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers a...

On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he ha...

Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by the e...

The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her ...

“Dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning of ...

Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and ...

Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and ...

“Well, begin!” said Dólokhov.“All right,” said Pierre, still smiling i...

Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and...

On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled ...

On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed by...

Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov...

On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his ...

Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the v...

On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle ...

Kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the...

At eight o’clock Kutúzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth col...

At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the cent...

That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in fron...

Shortly after nine o’clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his plan...

The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physicia...

At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denísov’s squadron, in which Nic...

The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his comr...

The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís, a review was held of the A...

On the twelfth of November, Kutúzov’s active army, in camp before Olmü...

It was long since the Rostóvs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter...

They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he ...

When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already i...

Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli in ...

In November, 1805, Prince Vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection in ...

Prince Vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. St...

The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, h...

The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts ...

The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right fla...

Prince Bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank,...

Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, look...

Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince An...

Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who had...

On November 1 Kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army ...

That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski ...

At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had...

Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first tho...

Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin, a Russian acquaintance of ...

Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command...

The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing toget...

Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where th...

Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges ove...

That same evening there was an animated discussion among the squadron’...

The Pávlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The squad...

On returning from the review, Kutúzov took the Austrian general into h...

“He’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment.The regimental comm...

In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns ...

Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering ...

At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the din...

The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of...

At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski’s estate, the arri...

There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and th...

Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its w...

While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the ...

While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, to...

The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the count...

At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. Th...

Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was...

After Anna Mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyri...

Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in P...

“My dear Borís,” said Princess Anna Mikháylovna to her son as Countess...

After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave ...

When Natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the c...

The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the ...

Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, b...

Prince Vasíli kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskáya wh...

It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a cloudles...

The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre contin...

The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince Andre...

Having thanked Anna Pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began...

“And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at Milan?...

Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew Bolk...

Anna Pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed stead...

Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest Peters...

“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the B...