About the fourth volume
The last volume of Tolstoy's War and Peace describes the events of the second half of 1812. It covers the French flight from Moscow, the Battle of Tarutino and numerous scenes of partisan warfare. In the fourth volume, the first and fourth “peaceful” parts frame the second and third “military” parts, as if emphasizing the close relationship between “war” and “peace” not only on the battlefield, but also in the personal lives of the heroes and all of Russia of that period. You can read a summary of volume 4 of “War and Peace” in parts online on our website or download a copy to your computer.
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Summary of volume 4
Part 1
Chapter 1
The actions of the first part of the fourth volume of “War and Peace” begin on August 26, on the very day of the Battle of Borodino. In Anna Pavlovna Scherer's salon, guests discuss Helen's sudden severe illness, suggesting that the woman is simply pretending because she cannot choose a husband from two candidates. Prince Vasily reads out a letter from the Right Reverend, written “when sending the image of the venerable saint Sergius to the sovereign.”
Chapter 2
The next day in St. Petersburg they receive a letter from Kutuzov, written from the field of the Borodino battle, and interpret it as news of the Russian victory. However, just three days later it becomes known that Moscow was abandoned by its residents and handed over to the French. In society, Kutuzov is beginning to be called a traitor. Alexander I was extremely dissatisfied with the actions of the commander-in-chief.
News of Helen's death. The official cause of death is a severe sore throat. However, according to rumors, Bezukhova drank a huge dose of medicine and died in agony before anyone could help her.
Chapter 3
Colonel Michaud arrives in St. Petersburg with official news that Moscow was abandoned and the city was burned by the enemy.
Chapters 4-5
Nikolay Rostov is on a business trip in Voronezh. At an evening with the governor, he meets Princess Marya Bolkonskaya’s aunt, Malvintseva, who offers to marry Marya to him, and the young man agrees.
Chapter 6
Marya and her nephew live with their aunt in Voronezh. Malvintseva arranges a meeting between Marya and Nikolai. Their date transformed Marya, she seemed to become prettier. Nikolai began to think that Marya was better than all the people he had met before and even better than himself.
Chapters 7-8
Marya and Nikolai learn about the results of the Battle of Borodino, the surrender of Moscow and the wounding of Prince Andrei. Marya wants to find her brother.
Rostov receives a letter from Sonya, written under the influence of Countess Rostova, in which she asks Nikolai to renege on his promise to marry her. Rostov also receives a letter from his mother, in which the Countess writes about their departure from Moscow, mentioning that Prince Andrei is going with them, and Natasha and Sonya are looking after him. Nikolai shows this letter to Marya (thanks to this letter, Nikolai “became close to the princess into an almost family relationship”).
Chapters 9-11
Pierre is captured by the French. When they were led for interrogation through burning Moscow, Bezukhov was horrified by what he saw: he “felt like an insignificant sliver caught in the wheels of an unknown but properly functioning machine.”
Pierre is brought for interrogation to Marshal Davout, known for his cruelty. However, after exchanging glances, Bezukhov and Davout vaguely felt “that they are both children of humanity, that they are brothers.” This is what saves Pierre: when, during the execution of prisoners, his turn reaches him, the execution is stopped and Bezukhov is taken away to the prisoners of war.
Chapter 12
Pierre understands that after the execution scenes he will not be able to return to normal life and faith. However, in the barracks he meets Platon Karataev. Karataev was convicted and sent to become a soldier, but he was glad of this, as it helped him save his younger brother. Plato tells Pierre that he needs to accept life as it is, feeling sorry for everyone. After a conversation with Karataev, Pierre “felt that the previously destroyed world was now being erected in his soul with new beauty, on some new and unshakable foundations.”
Chapter 13
Platon Karataev is a man who personifies everything “Russian, good and round.” “His face had an expression of innocence and youth,” and “the main feature of his speech was spontaneity and argument.” Karataev knew how to do everything: “baked, cooked, sewed, planed, made boots” and even sang. However, what attracted Pierre most about Karataev was his ability to talk about simple things that you usually don’t notice. Plato loved everything around him and lived in this love. “His every word and every action was a manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.” His life "had meaning only as a part of the whole, which he constantly felt."
Chapter 14
Marya goes to Yaroslavl to see the wounded Andrey. The girl feels that her love for Nikolai has become an inseparable part of herself and knows that her feelings are mutual. The Rostovs greet Marya as if they were their own. During a conversation with Natasha about Andrei, Bolkonskaya realizes that Natasha is now her sincere friend and comrade in grief.
Chapter 15
During Princess Marya’s meeting with her brother, it seems to the girl that in all Bolkonsky’s actions there is some kind of alienation from the world that is strange for a living person. She understands that Andrei's death is near.
Chapter 16
Andrei himself feels that he is dying. The man thinks about his love for Natasha, that love must fight death, because it is life. Bolkonsky has a dream in which death comes to him and he dies. Waking up, Andrei understands that death is liberation, awakening, relief. Soon he dies.
Part 2
Chapter 1
In the second part of the fourth volume of War and Peace, the Russian army, due to a lack of provisions, moves from the Ryazan to the Kaluga road to the Tarutino camp, carrying out the “so-called flank march behind Krasnaya Pakhra.”
Chapter 2
Tolstoy discusses the famous flank march of Russian troops and the role of Kutuzov in it. Kutuzov’s merit did not lie “in some brilliant strategic maneuver,” but in the fact that he alone believed that the Russians had won the battle of Borodino. He saw that the French were weakened, and kept the Russian army from "useless battles."
Kutuzov receives a letter from Napoleon, which Lauriston brings, asking for peace, which only confirms the commander-in-chief’s conclusions. Kutuzov refuses. At this point, the balance of power between the Russians and the French changes in favor of the Russians.
Chapters 3-4
Alexander is trying to control the Russian army from St. Petersburg, which only hinders Kutuzov. The Emperor sends Kutuzov a letter demanding that he begin an offensive against the French.
Chapters 5-7
Battle of Tarutino. The beginning of the offensive of the Russian troops (it dragged on for a day, since the orders given by Kutuzov were not immediately transmitted to the army). The Orlov-Denisov detachment successfully attacks the French (as a result, this battle was the only one in the Battle of Tarutino). Upon learning that Murat (Napoleon's marshal) was retreating, Kutuzov ordered a slow advance. The French army melts as it advances.
The Battle of Tarutino “exposed the weakness of the French and gave the impetus that Napoleon’s army was waiting for to begin their flight.”
Chapters 8-10
The result of Napoleon’s activities after the capture of Moscow: no matter what measures he tried to introduce, they were all unsuccessful (from administrative to religious and entertainment). Moscow continues to burn, and looting intensifies in the city. There is a decline in French military discipline. When the French left Moscow with looted goods, their position “was like that of a wounded animal feeling its death.” Napoleon “was like a child who imagines that he rules.”
Chapters 11-12
During his time in captivity, Pierre changes a lot, becoming collected, energetic, calm, ready for action. Bezukhov finally understood Andrei’s words that “happiness can only be negative.” “The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of needs and, as a result, the freedom to choose occupations, that is, a way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be the undoubted and highest happiness of a person.”
Chapters 13-14
The French are fleeing Moscow. Pierre is assigned to the captured officers. During his first overnight stay, Bezukhov admires the landscape. “Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the receding, playing stars. “And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!” - thought Pierre.
Chapters 15-17
Napoleon again sends an envoy to Kutuzov with a peace proposal. Kutuzov refuses again. The French army turns onto the new Kaluga road and heads towards Borovsk.
Reflecting on the war, Kutuzov understands that the French army is in chaos, so it is easy to defeat.
Chapter 18
Kutuzov does everything to prevent the useless advances of Russian troops (to allow the French to leave and not lose their people in senseless firefights), but the French themselves run away from the enemy. Having almost been captured by the Cossacks, Napoleon orders a retreat along the Smolensk road.
Chapter 19
The French are running randomly towards Smolensk. Kutuzov tries not to interfere with the disastrous flight of the enemy, but few people listen to him, and Russian troops are trying to block the French road, losing hundreds of their own.
Part 3
Chapters 1-3
In the third part of the fourth volume, Tolstoy argues that the war of 1812 had a national character, since for the Russians it resolved the issue of life and death of the fatherland. Tolstoy calls guerrilla warfare one of the methods of waging a people's war.
Chapters 3-4
On August 24, Denis Davydov assembled the first partisan detachment. There were soon about a hundred such units. Denisov, together with Dolokhov, intended to attack and take a French transport with Russian prisoners and a cargo of cavalry items. Wanting to capture the “language”, they send a spy to the French - the peasant Tikhon Shcherbaty.
Arrival of Petya Rostov to the Denisov regiment.
Chapters 5-6
Tikhon Shcherbaty returns under fire from the French. Tikhon tells Denisov that he tried to choose the most suitable Frenchman, so he was exposed.
Chapter 7
Petya Rostov takes part in the Battle of Vyazemsky and is waiting for an opportunity to distinguish himself. Petya is sent to Denisov's detachment, but the general forbids him to participate in battles.
Chapter 8
Dolokhov is going to go on reconnaissance to the French, dressed in a French uniform. Petya goes with him.
Chapter 9-10
The French accepted Dolokhov and Petya as their own and told everything that interested the spies. Returning back to the Russians, Dolokhov and Petya agree that in the morning they will begin to attack at the signal. Worried, Petya does not sleep all night.
Chapter 11
Denisov's squad performs. Denisov orders Rostov to obey him and not interfere anywhere. During an attack on the French convoy and depot, Petya rushes forward and is shot in the head. The Russians seize transport and a batch of Russian prisoners, among whom was Bezukhov.
Chapter 12
The plot takes us back a little, to the period when Pierre was still in captivity. Pierre's state during the French movement from Moscow to Smolensk can be described as follows: he thinks that there are boundaries of freedom and suffering, and there is nothing terrible in the world.
Karataev becomes seriously ill with a fever, and Bezukhov stops communicating with him.
Chapter 13
Bezukhov recalls Karataev's story about a merchant who ended up in Siberia for the murder of his comrade and grew old there. The real killer found out about this injustice and came to the authorities to confess. But when the release papers were approved, the merchant had already died. During the story, Karataev’s face shone with ecstatic joy.
Chapter 14
One day Karataev was unable to go with the other prisoners and fell behind, so the French shot him.
Chapter 15
While spending the night among the prisoners, Pierre hears in a dream the words: “Life is everything. Life is God. Everything moves and moves, and this movement is God” and understands that Karataev said them. Pierre is released from captivity.
Chapters 16-18
The French army is in distress, they are killing each other for food, robbing their own stores. Flight of the French. The author's thoughts about Napoleon that there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, truth, kindness.
Chapter 19
The author argues that in the last period of the military campaign of 1812, the Russians’ goal was to rid their land of the enemy’s invasion. “The Russian army had to act like a whip on a running animal. And an experienced driver knew that the most profitable thing was to keep the whip raised, threatening it, and not to whip a running animal on the head.”
Part 4
Chapter 1
The fourth part begins with a description of the condition of Natasha and Marya. They take the death of Prince Andrei hard and become very close friends. Marya is distracted by worries about Nikolenka. Natasha avoided everyone and constantly thought about Andrei, about their unfulfilled marriage.
Chapters 2-3
The Rostovs receive news of Petya's death. For the Countess, the death of her son becomes a strong blow, and the woman falls ill. Natasha takes care of her, trying with all her might to console and help. Rostova is getting worse and worse, while Natasha’s brother’s death seems to sober her up, she understands that love for her loved ones lives within her.
During her illness and her mother’s illness, Natasha became very weak, so she and Marya went to Moscow to rest and consult with doctors.
Chapter 4
Kutuzov is trying to facilitate the movement of his troops when attacking the fleeing French (the Russians were exhausted by the long daily movement). Other Russian generals accuse him of hindering the defeat of Napoleon, since he does not start battles, but only pursues the retreating French.
Chapter 5
Assessing the historical significance of Kutuzov’s activities, the author writes that he was the only one who realized the popular meaning of the Battle of Borodino and the loss of Moscow and until the end confidently walked towards the main goal - the liberation of Russia.
Chapter 6-9
While with the army near Krasnoye, Kutuzov calls on the soldiers to take pity on the French, although he believes that they got what they deserved. The soldiers felt a feeling of great triumph, combined with a feeling of pity for the French.
The life of the soldiers, their conversations about home, awards, harvest, etc. The French Rambal and his orderly Morel approach the fire of the 5th company. Russians treat them well, not perceiving them as enemies.
Chapter 10
Kutuzov was very unhappy at court and among the commanders of the army after the failure of the St. Petersburg plan at the Berezina crossing (contrary to the plan during the battle, Napoleon, in seemingly hopeless circumstances, managed to cross and preserve the combat-ready forces of his army). For the victory in the Battle of Tarutino, Kutuzov is awarded George 1st degree, but he understands that this is the end of his role in the war.
Chapter 11
After the liberation of Russia, Kutuzov was gradually removed from the leadership of the army, since he did not meet the new tasks of the European war. After the liberation of Russia, “the representative of the people’s war had no choice but death. And he died."
Chapter 12
After being released from captivity, Pierre is in Oryol, ill for a long time. Bezukhov learns about the death of Andrei and Helen. Pierre feels a sense of freedom from his wife. He begins to believe in a living and always felt God.
Chapter 13
Pierre feels strong internal changes in himself. He looks at life and people in a new way. “Now a smile of the joy of life constantly played around his mouth, and concern for people shone in his eyes.” Princess Mamontova, who came to Oryol to look after him, gradually realizes that she is in love with Pierre; she “gratefully showed him the hidden good sides of her character.” In Bezukhov, such a trait appeared in relation to people as “recognition of the possibility for each person to think, feel and look at things in his own way, recognition of the impossibility of dissuading a person with words.” “In practical matters, Pierre suddenly now felt that he had a center of gravity that was not there before.” Bezukhov decides to leave for Moscow to settle his affairs.
Chapter 14
Moscow is being rebuilt and restored after looting and fire.
Chapter 15
In Moscow, Pierre visits Marya, where he meets Natasha Rostova. Bezukhov feels the awakening of his love for Natasha. Confused in words, he involuntarily reveals his feelings.
Chapter 16
Marya, Pierre and Natasha are talking about Andrey. Bezukhov feels sorry for Natasha for the suffering she endured.
Chapter 17
At dinner, Marya jokes at Pierre that now he is “a bachelor and a groom again.” Bezukhov talks about how he was captured. Marya notices the closeness between Natasha and Pierre and is happy for them.
Chapter 18-19
After a date with Natasha, Pierre decides to marry her and visits Princess Marya’s house every day. Bezukhov tells Marya about his feelings and the girl, assuring that everything will be fine with him and Natasha, advises him to leave for St. Petersburg for now so that Rostova can recover from what she suffered. Before leaving, Natasha tells Pierre that she will be waiting for him very much.
Pierre is happy: “The whole meaning of life, not for him alone, but for the whole world, seemed to him to lie only in his love and in the possibility of her love for him.”
Chapter 20
After meeting Pierre, Natasha gained hope for happiness and the strength of life, she seemed to come to life, and began to make plans for the future. Marya tells Natasha about Pierre's intention to marry her. Natasha replies that it would be wonderful if she married Pierre, and Marya married Nikolai, but the princess asks not to mention Nikolai.
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Nikolai Rostov, without any goal of self-sacrifice, but by chance, since the war found him in the service, took a close and long-term part in the defense of the fatherland and therefore, without despair and gloomy conclusions, looked at what was happening in Russia at that time. If they had asked him what he thought about the current situation in Russia, he would have said that he had nothing to think about, that Kutuzov and others were there for that, and that he had heard that the regiments were being recruited, and that they would probably fight for a long time , and that under the current circumstances it would not be surprising for him to receive a regiment in two years.
Because he looked at the matter this way, he not only accepted the news of his appointment on a business trip for repairs for the division in Voronezh without regret that he would be deprived of participation in the last struggle, but also with the greatest pleasure, which he did not hide and which his comrades understood very well.
A few days before the Battle of Borodino, Nikolai received money and papers and, sending the hussars ahead, went to Voronezh by mail.
Only those who have experienced this, that is, have spent several months without ceasing in the atmosphere of military, combat life, can understand the pleasure that Nicholas experienced when he got out of the area that the troops reached with their forages, supplies, and hospitals; when he, without soldiers, wagons, dirty traces of the presence of the camp, saw villages with men and women, landowners' houses, fields with grazing cattle, station houses with fallen asleep caretakers. He felt such joy as if he had seen it all for the first time. In particular, what surprised and pleased him for a long time were women, young, healthy, each of whom had less than a dozen officers looking after her, and women who were glad and flattered that a passing officer was joking with them.
In the most cheerful mood, Nikolai arrived at the hotel in Voronezh at night, ordered himself everything that he had been deprived of for a long time in the army, and the next day, having shaved clean and putting on a dress uniform that had not been worn for a long time, he went to report to his superiors.
The head of the militia was a civil general, an old man who, apparently, was amused by his military rank and rank. He angrily (thinking that this was a military quality) received Nicholas and significantly, as if having the right to do so and as if discussing the general course of the matter, approving and disapproving, questioned him. Nikolai was so cheerful that it was just funny to him.
From the chief of the militia he went to the governor. The governor was a small, lively man, very affectionate and simple. He pointed out to Nikolai those factories where he could get horses, recommended to him a horse dealer in the city and a landowner twenty miles from the city who had the best horses, and promised all assistance.
— Are you Count Ilya Andreevich’s son? My wife was very friendly with your mother. On Thursdays they gather at my place; “Today is Thursday, you are welcome to come to me easily,” said the governor, releasing him.
Directly from the governor, Nikolai took the saddlebag and, taking the sergeant with him, rode twenty miles to the landowner’s factory. Everything during this first time of his stay in Voronezh was fun and easy for Nikolai, and everything, as happens when a person is well disposed, everything went well and went smoothly.
The landowner to whom Nikolai came was an old bachelor cavalryman, a horse expert, a hunter, the owner of a carpet, a hundred-year-old casserole, an old Hungarian and wonderful horses.
Nikolai, in two words, bought for six thousand and seventeen stallions for selection (as he said) for the horse-drawn end of his renovation. Having had lunch and drunk a little extra Hungarian, Rostov, having kissed the landowner, with whom he had already gotten on first name terms, along the disgusting road, in the most cheerful mood, galloped back, constantly chasing the coachman, in order to be in time for the evening with the governor.
Having changed clothes, perfumed himself and doused his head with cold milk, Nikolai, although somewhat late, but with a ready-made phrase: vaut mieux tard que jamais, [ better late than never ,] came to the governor.
It was not a ball, and it was not said that there would be dancing; but everyone knew that Katerina Petrovna would play waltzes and ecosaises on the clavichord and that they would dance, and everyone, counting on this, gathered at the ballroom.
Provincial life in 1812 was exactly the same as always, with the only difference that the city was livelier on the occasion of the arrival of many wealthy families from Moscow and that, as in everything that happened at that time in Russia, it was noticeable some kind of special sweepingness - knee-deep sea, tryn-grass in life, and even in the fact that that vulgar conversation that is necessary between people and which was previously conducted about the weather and about mutual acquaintances, was now conducted about Moscow, about the army and Napoleon .
The society gathered from the governor was the best society in Voronezh.
There were a lot of ladies, there were several of Nikolai’s Moscow acquaintances; but there were no men who could in any way compete with the Cavalier of St. George, the hussar repairman and at the same time the good-natured and well-mannered Count Rostov. Among the men was one captured Italian - an officer of the French army, and Nikolai felt that the presence of this prisoner further elevated the importance of him - the Russian hero. It was like a trophy. Nikolai felt this, and it seemed to him that everyone was looking at the Italian in the same way, and Nikolai treated this officer with dignity and restraint.
As soon as Nicholas entered in his hussar uniform, spreading the smell of perfume and wine around him, he himself said and heard the words spoken to him several times: vaut mieux tard que jamais, they surrounded him; all eyes turned to him, and he immediately felt that he had entered into the position of everyone’s favorite that was due to him in the province and was always pleasant, but now, after a long deprivation, the position of everyone’s favorite intoxicated him with pleasure. Not only at stations, inns and in the landowner’s carpet were there maidservants who were flattered by his attention; but here, at the governor’s evening, there was (as it seemed to Nikolai) an inexhaustible number of young ladies and pretty girls who were impatiently waiting for Nikolai to pay attention to them. Ladies and girls flirted with him, and from the first day the old women were already busy trying to get this young rake of a hussar married and settled down. Among these latter was the governor’s wife herself, who accepted Rostov as a close relative and called him “Nicolas” and “you.”
Katerina Petrovna really began to play waltzes and ecosaises, and dances began, in which Nikolai even more captivated the entire provincial society with his dexterity. He surprised even everyone with his special, cheeky style of dancing. Nikolai himself was somewhat surprised by his manner of dancing that evening. He had never danced like that in Moscow and would even have considered such an overly cheeky manner of dancing [ bad taste ] but here he felt the need to surprise them all with something unusual, something that they should have accepted as ordinary in the capitals, but still unknown to them in the provinces.
Throughout the evening, Nikolai paid most of his attention to the blue-eyed, plump and pretty blonde, the wife of one of the provincial officials. With that naive conviction of cheerful young people that other people's wives were created for them, Rostov did not leave this lady and treated her husband in a friendly, somewhat conspiratorial manner, as if, although they did not say it, they knew how nicely they would get together - then there is Nikolai and this husband’s wife. The husband, however, did not seem to share this conviction and tried to treat Rostov gloomily. But Nikolai’s good-natured naivety was so boundless that sometimes the husband involuntarily succumbed to Nikolai’s cheerful mood of spirit. Towards the end of the evening, however, as the wife's face became more ruddy and livelier, her husband's face became sadder and paler, as if the share of animation was the same in both, and as it increased in the wife, it decreased in the husband .
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Nikolai, with a never-ending smile on his face, sat slightly bent in his chair, leaning close over the blonde and telling her mythological compliments.
Briskly changing the position of his legs in tight leggings, spreading the smell of perfume from himself and admiring both his lady and himself, and the beautiful shapes of his legs under the tight kichkirs, Nikolai told the blonde that he wanted to kidnap a lady here in Voronezh.
- Which one?
- Lovely, divine. Her eyes (Nikolai looked at his interlocutor) are blue, her mouth is coral, white... - he looked at her shoulders, - the figure - of Diana...
The husband approached them and gloomily asked his wife what she was talking about.
- A! Nikita Ivanovich,” said Nikolai, standing up politely. And, as if wanting Nikita Ivanovich to take part in his jokes, he began to tell him his intention to kidnap a certain blonde.
The husband smiled gloomily, the wife cheerfully. The good governor's wife approached them with a disapproving look.
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Results of the fourth volume
The retelling of the fourth volume of the novel “War and Peace” conveys the dramatic events that occurred in the fate of the main characters at the end of 1812. The author intertwines tragic episodes (the death of Andrei Bolkonsky and the death of Petya Rostov) with important and joyful events in the lives of the characters: the fateful acquaintance of Pierre with Platon Karataev , the mutually flared feelings of Nikolai Rostov and Marya Bolkonskaya, the happy meeting of Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova.
Depicting life as it is in volume 4: full of sad and joyful moments, Tolstoy shows that it is important, no matter what, to always strive forward, finding new meanings and goals of existence.
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A very brief summary (in a nutshell)
Helen Bezukhova, who until recently was choosing which lover to marry, unexpectedly dies. Napoleon offers Emperor Alexander to make peace, but he refuses. Nikolai Rostov accidentally meets Marya Bolkonskaya and realizes that he loves her, but cannot break his word to Sonya. He says that Natasha is nursing her brother Andrei, and she immediately goes to the Rostovs. Pierre Bezukhov is sentenced to death, but at the last moment he is pardoned. In captivity, he becomes friends with Platon Karataev, but he falls ill and is shot. Napoleon begins to leave Moscow for Smolensk. Dolokhov fights in one of the partisan detachments. One day they attack a French convoy and capture it, freeing the prisoners, among whom is Pierre Bezukhov. In this battle, the Rostovs’ younger brother, Peter, dies. Natasha could not leave Andrei Bolkonsky, he is dying. Kutuzov expels Napoleon from Russia, for which Alexander gives him the Cross of St. George, although he is not happy with it. Soon Kutuzov dies. Pierre Bezukhov spent a long time recovering from captivity, but having recovered, he begins to visit Natasha Rostova, and soon falls in love with her. <<<volume 3 Epilogue>>>
