Briggs: The people return to Moscow and the city begins to recover.
Pevear and Volokhonsky: Rebirth of Moscow.
XIV.
So the same as it is difficult to explain for what and where hasten ants from scattered heaps, one away from heaps, dragging mote, eggs and dead bodies, other backwards in bunches — for what they collide, catch up to each other, fight, — so the same it would be difficult to explain the causes forcing the Russian people, after the exit of the French, to crowd in this location, which before was called Moscow. Yet so the same as, looking on scattered around ravaged heaps of ants, despite the complete destruction of the heaps, it is seen by the tenacity, energy, by the countless swarming of insects, that all is ravaged, besides something indestructible, immaterial, forming all the force of the heaps, — so the same Moscow, in the month of October, despite that there were no superiors, churches, shrines, wealth, or houses, was that same Moscow, which was in August. All was destroyed, besides something immaterial, but powerful and indestructible.
The motive of people, aspiring to all parties in Moscow, after its cleansing of the enemy, were the most diverse, personal, and for the first time, for the most part — savage animals. Only one motive was common to all, — this striving there, at that place, which before was called Moscow, for there annexed their activities.
In a week in Moscow now were 15 thousand inhabitants, in two, there were 25 thousand and etc. All towering and towering, this number in the fall of the year 1813 reached to figures superior to the population of the 12th year.
The first Russian people that marched in Moscow, was the Cossack detachment of Wintsengerode, men from neighboring villages and fleeing from Moscow and hiding in its surroundings residents. Marching in the ravaged Moscow, the Russians, finding it robbed, began to also rob. They continued that what did the French. Wagons of peasants came in Moscow so to take away by the village all that was abandoned by the ravaged Moscow houses and the street. Cossacks took away what they could, at their rates; hosts of houses took away all that what they found in other houses, and carried across to themselves under the pretext that this was their own.
Yet behind the first robbers came others, a third, and the robbery with every afternoon, by the least increased robbers, became harder and harder and took more certain forms.
The French caught Moscow empty, but with all forms of the organically right living cities, with its various consignments of trade, craft, luxury, state management, and religion. These forms were lifeless, but they still existed. There were ranks, benches, shops, sheds, bazaars, — the majority with goods; there were factories, craft institutions; there were palaces, rich homes filled with subjects, luxury; there were hospitals, jails, public places, churches, and cathedrals. The more stayed the French, by that the more destroyed were these forms of city life, and under the end all merged in one inseparable, lifeless field of robbery.
The robbery of the French, the more it went on, by that more destroyed the wealth of Moscow and the forces of the robbers. The robbery of the Russians, with which started the occupation of the Russian capitals, the longer it went on, the more was in it participants, by that faster recovering the wealth of Moscow and correcting the life of the city.
Besides robbers, the most different people, drawn— whose curiosity, whose duty of service, whose calculation, — homeowners, clergy, higher and inferior officials, merchants, artisans, men — from different parties, as blood to a heart — surged to Moscow.
In a week now men, coming with empty carts so to take away things, were stopped by superiors and forced to take out dead bodies from the city. Other men, hearing about the failure of friends, came in the city with bread, oats, hay, knocking down the prices of each other to prices lower than previously. The peasant worker carpenters, hoping for expensive earnings, every day entered in Moscow, and with all parties were chopped new and were repaired old, burned homes. Merchants in booths opened trade. Taverns, inn courtyards were arranged in burnt houses. Clergy resumed service in many not burned churches. Donors brought robbed church things. Officials adjusted their tables with cloth and cabinets with papers in small rooms. Higher superiors and police ordered the distributing of the remaining after the French goods. Hosts of those houses, in which were left many brought from other houses things, complaining at the injustice of transporting all the things in the Granovita ward; others insisted that the French from different houses brought things to another place, and because of this it was unfair to give back the hosts of houses those things that were found in it. The police were scolded; bribed; wrote ten times the estimates in burned state things; requiring aid. Count Rastopchin wrote his proclamation.
Mentioned: October, August, a week, two weeks, fall of 1813, 1812, a week later
Locations: Moscow
Mentioned: French, the surrounding villages, Russian
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: Tolstoy ties together Moscow and an anthill, as Moscow, despite not having the buildings it previously had, still stays together as a city and starts to rebuild. First, it had been looted by the French and then the Cossacks and muzhiks, and as more and more people came into the city, much of them to make money, it started to rebuild. The chapter ends with Rastopchin coming back to the city and writing proclamations.
Characters (characters who do not appear, but are mentioned are placed in italics. First appearances are in Bold. First mentions are underlined. Final appearance denoted by *):
(also the Russian people, including muzhiks , carpenters, and merchants, clergy, chinovniks, police, and the French army.)
Abridged Versions: End of Chapter 17 in Bell.
Gibian: Line break instead of chapter break.
Fuller: Entire chapter is cut.
Komroff: Chapter basically preserved and followed by a line break.
Kropotkin: Chapter 7: Chapter basically preserved.
Simmons: Entire chapter is cut.
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