![]() Meanwhile, Princess Drubetskaya approaches Prince Vassily Kuragin at Anna's soirée to ask a favor in getting her son, Boris, into a high, safe position in the military. Some days later, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky declares to his father that he is going to join the Russian military and achieve glory, just as Napoleon did. Natalya's Day, guests gather at the Rostov mansion at Otradnoe to pay their respects to Countess Rostova and her daughter Natasha. In Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov, attends a soirée at Anna Pavlovna's, a lady in waiting to the Russian empress. Napoleon Bonaparte has installed himself as Emperor of France, and he makes war on Austria and Russia in his bid to establish France as the supreme nation on Earth. War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, about the affairs of a number of interconnected Russian nobles during and after The Napoleonic Wars. ![]() ‘All we can know is that we know nothing. ![]() “‘Nothing has been found out, nothing discovered,’ Pierre again said to himself. ![]()
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