THE ROSTOVS’ SON-IN-LAW, Berg, was by now a colonel, with the orders of Vladimir and Anne on his neck, and was still filling the same comfortable and agreeable post of assistant to...
AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT at Vyazma, where Kutuzov could not restrain his troops in their desire to break through, to cut off and all the rest of it, the further march of the flying Fre...
ON SATURDAY, the 31st of August, the whole household of the Rostovs seemed turned upside down. — 在8月31日星期六,罗斯托夫家里的一切似乎被彻底搅乱了。 — All the doors stood wide open, all the furniture ...
THE ROSTOVS remained in Moscow till the 1st of September, the day before the enemy entered the city. 九月一日,罗斯托夫家族留在莫斯科,就在敌人进城之前的一天。 After Petya had joined Obolensky’s regiment o...
ON THE 30TH Pierre returned to Moscow. Almost at the city gates he was met by an adjutant of Count Rastoptchin’s. 30日,皮埃尔返回莫斯科。快接近城门时,他被拉斯托普钦伯爵的副官拦住了。 “Why, we have been looking...
“Do you know, Kostya, with whom Sergey Ivanovitch traveled on his way here?” — “你知道吗,科斯蒂亚,谢尔盖·伊万诺维奇和谁一起来的?” — said Dolly, doling out cucumbers and honey to the children; — 多莉说着,...
WHAT RUSSIAN READER has not known an irksome feeling of annoyance, dissatisfaction, and perplexity, when he reads the accounts of the latter period of the campaign of 1812? — 有哪个俄罗...
ONE MIGHT have supposed that the historians, who ascribe the actions of the masses to the will of one man, would have found it impossible to explain the retreat of the French on th...
AT THE END of the day of Borodino, Pierre ran for a second time from Raevsky’s battery, and with crowds of soldiers crossed the ravine on the way to Knyazkovo. — 在博罗迪诺战役结束的那天,皮埃尔从雷...
FROM THE 28TH of October, when the frosts began, the flight of the French assumed a more tragic aspect, from the men being frozen or roasted to death by the camp-fires, while the E...