Borís gets his guard position. The Rostóv’s receive St. Natalia’s day visitors. There is speculation about who will inherit the Bezúkhov fortune.
Borís gets his guard position. The Rostóv’s receive St. Natalia’s day visitors. There is speculation about who will inherit the Bezúkhov fortune.
Book 1, Chapter 10
Borís gets his guard position. The Rostóv’s receive St. Natalia’s day visitors. There is speculation about who will inherit the Bezúkhov fortune.
Summary:
Prince Vasíli obtains a transfer for Borís to the Semenov Guards, as he promised his mother Anna Mikháylovna. Anna Mikháylovna was related to the Rostóv’s and stayed with them while in Moscow. She arrived there on St. Natalia’s day, the name day of both Countess Rostóv and her daughter. It’s after Pierre’s, Dólokhov’s and Anatole’s escapade with the bear. For this, Dólokhov has been demoted and the others sent out of Petersburg. (They tied a policeman to the bear and threw them both in the river!) A big “name day” dinner celebration for eighty guests is being prepared at the Rostóv house. All day visitors have been passing through the house with name day greetings. Count Rostóv is inviting all the visitors to dinner. With one visitor, the Countess gossips about Pierre’s antics with the bear and wonders if the old Counts immense fortune will be left to Pierre or Vasíli.
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Well, as I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death-and he is so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from Petersburg-no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles!
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