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...of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdo... ...ed, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spa... ... in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It was seething in its depths. Historic ... ...t was seething in its depths. Historic figures were not borne by the waves from one shore to an- other as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spo... ...eir opinion, caused what they describe as the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Phot... ...t they describe as the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte,... ...eaumarchais, and others? Is the movement of the Russian people eastward to Kazan and Siberia expressed by details of the morbid character of Ivan the ...

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... the detriment of the defeated. An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and i... ... the nation is quite subjugated. So according to history it has been found from the most an- cient times, and so it is to our own day. All Napoleon’s ... ...h army ceased to exist. What does this mean? If it were an ex- ample taken from the history of China, we might say that it was not an historic phenome... ...ened in the greatest of all known wars. The period of the campaign of 1812 from the battle of Borodino to the expulsion of the French proved that the ... ...indication of conquest; it proved that the force which decides the fate of peoples lies not in the conquerors, nor even in armies and battles, but in ... ...onent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules of fenci... ...ng legs and long, swinging arms, wearing a short jacket, bast shoes, and a Kazan hat, was approaching with long, light steps. He had a musketoon over ...

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...at effort, to realize the danger and the difficult position of the Russian people. There were the same receptions and balls, the same French theater, ... ...der her patronage, had given directions that they should all be removed to Kazan, and the things belonging to these institutions had already been pack... ...was a soiree, the chief feature of which was to be the reading of a letter from His Lordship the Bishop when sending the Emperor an icon of the V ener... ...isits to the French theater and aroused to a patriotic temper. A good many people had already arrived, but Anna Pavlovna, not yet seeing all those who... ...l way. They all knew very well that the enchanting countess’ illness arose from an inconvenience resulting from marrying two hus- bands at the same ti... ...upposing that by these words Anna Pavlovna was some- what lifting the veil from the secret of the countess’ malady, an unwary young man ventured to ex... ...my peasants, rather than sign the disgrace of my country and of my beloved people whose sacrifices I know how to appreciate.” Having uttered these wor...

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...rad regiment, in which he already commanded the squadron he had taken over from Denisov. Rostov had become a bluff, good-natured fellow, whom his Mosc... ...nd was well contented with his life. Of late, in 1809, he found in letters from home more frequent complaints from his mother that their affairs were ... ...ing these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, h... ...n former years, but still the enor- mous house and its lodges were full of people and more than twenty sat down to table every day. These were all the... ...and more than twenty sat down to table every day. These were all their own people who had settled down in the house almost as members of the family, o... ...many others such as Petya’s tutors, the girls’ former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the ... ...d her governess, peering into the face of her own daughter dressed up as a Kazan-Tartar. “I suppose it is one of the Rostovs! Well, Mr. Hussar, and wh...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...ps. One, chiefly mascu- line, had formed round the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili’s da... ...her governess, peer- ing into the face of her own daughter dressed up as a Kazan-Tartar. “I suppose it is one of the Rostovs! W ell, Mr. Hussar, and w... ... discounte- nanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls’ educational establishments under the patr... ...der her patronage, had given directions that they should all be removed to Kazan, and the things belong- ing to these institutions had already been pa...

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...ng to the stimulating influence of a June morn- ing, and could not refrain from bursts of anger in the presence of Kurakin and then of Balashev. Alexa... ...ish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal charact... ...t they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of a... ...f Russian towns and the hatred of the foe this aroused among the Rus- sian people. But no one at the time foresaw (what now seems so evident) that thi... ... even then understood. Russian authors are still fonder of telling us that from the com- mencement of the campaign a Scythian war plan was adopted to ... ... as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: “I said then that it would be so,” quite forgetting that ami... ...ey discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls’ educational establishments under the patr...

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...r that; yet there is the same differ- ence between a man who says that the people of the West moved on the East because Napoleon wished it and a man w... ... important episode of the war of 1812 was the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazana to the Kaluga road and to the Tarutino camp—the so-called ... ...en could have guessed that the best position for an army after its retreat from Moscow in 1812 was on the Kaluga road. So it is impossible to under- s... ...or the French. If the position of the Russian army really began to improve from the time of that march, it does not at all follow that the march was t... ... have proved disastrous. The third and most incomprehensible thing is that people studying history deliberately avoid seeing that this flank march can... ...e army had got there, as the result of innumerable and varying forces, did people begin to assure themselves that they had desired this movement and l... ...m walked a fat major with a sallow, bloated, angry face, who was wearing a Kazan dressing grown tied round with a towel, and who evidently enjoyed the...