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In July 1805 the maid of honor Anna Pavlovna Scherer receives Petersburg society at her evening gathering, and talk turns to Bonaparte and the coming war. There Prince Vasily brings his schemes, and Pierre meets his friend Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, who is leaving for the army. In Moscow the Rostovs keep the name day of both Natalias, mother and younger daughter, and the old Count Bezukhov lies gravely ill while Pierre is sent for.
In October 1805 Russian troops are billeted in Austria near Braunau, Kutuzov's headquarters. Nikolay Rostov serves in the hussars with his friend Denisov, and Prince Andrey rides to Vienna and then to Bagration's detachment at Grunt. In Moscow Pierre is drawn into Prince Vasily's plans, and the allied army is reviewed at Olmütz by the two emperors and a war council meets in Kutuzov's quarters.
This is the first of three volumes and contains Parts One to Three of War and Peace, first published in 1865-69, read in full.
