Chapter Summaries: Dole: The interview at Tilsit (June 25, 1806). Boris on hand. Count Zhilinsky's dinner. The blue spectacles of high society. Nikolai's inopportune visit. Nikolai and Boris.
Briggs: Nikolay's inopportune visit to Boris at Tilsit.
Maude: Boris at Tilsit. Nicholas's inopportune visit
Pevear and Volkhonsky (chapters 19-21): Nikolai goes to Tilsit to intercede for Denisov. Meeting of the tw emperors. Nikolai's reaction.
Translation:
XIX. Returning to the regiment and delivering to the commander in which position was found the business of Denisov, Rostov with the letter to the sovereign went to Tilsit. On the 13th of June, the French and Russian emperors gathered together in Tilsit. Boris Drubetskoy requested the major face, in which he was consisted, so that to be ranked in the retinue appointed to take place in Tilsit. — I would wish to see a great person, 461 — he said, talking about Napoleon, whom he before still always, as all, called Buonaparte. — You speak about Buonaparte?462 — said the smiling general to him. Boris interrogatively looked at his General and immediately got that this was a comic experiment. — Prince, I speak about Emperor Napoleon.463 — was his response. The general with a smile patted him on the shoulder. — You will go a long way, — he said to him and took him with himself. Boris was in the few in number that were on the Neiman at the day of the meeting of the emperors; he saw the rafts with the monograms, the traveling Napoleon passing the French guard, saw the brooding face of Emperor Aleksandr, at that time as he silently sat at the tavern at the guard of the Neiman, expecting the arrival of Napoleon; saw how both emperors sat down in boats and how Napoleon, stuck before to the raft, with fast steps went forward and, meeting Aleksandr, gave him his hand, and how both hid in the pavilion. To the time of his entry in the higher worlds, Boris made himself a habit of carefully watching that what was happening around him and writing it down. In the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked about the names of those persons which arrived with Napoleon, about the uniforms which were put on them, and carefully listened to the words, which were said by important faces. At that very time, as the emperor entered into the pavilion, he looked at his watch and did not forget to look again at the time, when Aleksandr got out of the pavilion. The meeting went on for an hour and fifty three minutes: so he wrote this down in the evening and a number of other facts that he believed historically mattered. As the suite of the emperor was very small, for a man appreciating success in service, to be found at Tilsit in the time of the meeting of the emperors was a very important business, and Boris, was hit in Tilsit by the feeling that from this time his position had completely improved. He not only knew, but he was taking a closer look than he was used to. Two times he carried out errands to the sovereign, so that the sovereign knew his face, and all the approximates not only were not shy with him, as before, considering him a new face, but would be surprised if he was not there. Boris lived with another adjutant, the Polish Count Zhilinsky. Zhilinsky, educated in Paris, was a rich Pole, passionately loving the French, and almost every day in the time of the stay at Tilsit Zhilinsky and Boris were going to dinners and breakfasts with French officers of the guard and the main French staff. On the night of the 24th of June, Count Zhilinsky, the roommate of Boris, arranged for their acquaintances a French dinner. At this dinner was an honorable guest, one adjutant of Napoleon, a few officers of the French guard and a young boy with an old aristocratic French name, the page of Napoleon. On this very day Rostov, taking advantage of the darkness, so that not to be recognized, in stately dress, had arrived at Tilsit and entered into the apartment of Zhilinsky and Boris. In Rostov, so the same as throughout the army from which he had arrived, still were a long way not accomplished in regarding Napoleon and the French, from enemies made friends, that coup which occurred in the main apartment and in Boris. All still continued in the army tested the former mixed feeling of anger, contempt and fear to Bonaparte and the French. More recently Rostov, talking with a Platovsky Cossack officer, argued that should Napoleon be taken in captivity, he would not be turned as a sovereign, but as a criminal. And more recently on the road, meeting with a French wounded colonel, Rostov got excited, proving to him that there may not be a peace between the legal sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. Therefore Rostov was weirdly struck in the apartment of Boris by the view of the French officers in those very uniforms that he used to really look at from flanker rows. Only as he saw leaning out of the door a French officer, this feeling of war and hostility, which he always felt in seeing the enemy, suddenly embraced him. He stopped on the doorstep and in Russian asked whether Drubetskoy lived here. Boris, having heard a foreign voice at the front, got out towards him. His face at the first moment, when he found Rostov, expressed annoyance. — Ah, this is you, very glad, very glad to see you, — he said however, smiling and moving forward to him. Yet Rostov saw his first move. — I am not in time it seems, — he said, — I would not have arrived, but I have business, — he said coldly... — No, I am only surprised how you from the regiment had arrived. — Now I am at your service,464 — he turned to the voice who called him. — I see that I am not in time, — repeated Rostov. The expression of annoyance now disappeared on the face of Boris; apparently pondering and having decided what to do, he with special calmness took him behind both hands and led him into the neighboring room. The eye of Boris, calmly and firmly watched Rostov, as if he was covered in something, as if dampered by something — the blue glasses of dormitories — were put on him. So it seemed to Rostov. — Ah, fully please, whether you can not be in time, — said Boris. — Boris introduced him to the room, where there was a covered dinner, introduced him to the guests, called him and explained that he was not stately, but an hussar officer, his old buddy. — Count Zhilinsky, Count Н. Н., Captain S.S.465 — he called the guests. Rostov frowningly saw the French, reluctantly bowed and kept silent. Zhilinsky, apparently, not happily accepted this new Russian face in their club and said nothing to Rostov. Boris, it seemed, did not notice what happened to the constraint of the new face and with that same enjoyable calmness and fog in his eyes, with which he met Rostov, tried to revive conversation. One of the French turned with the usual French courtesy to the stubbornly silent Rostov and said to him that probably so to see the emperor, he had arrived to Tilsit. — No, I have business, — was the short response of Rostov. Rostov was not in the spirit immediately again after this, as he saw the displeasure in the face of Boris, and, as always with people, which are not in spirit, to him it seemed that all hostilely watched him and that he was thrown to all. And really he hindered all and stayed alone beyond the again ensuing common conversation. "And what for he sits here?" said the looks which were thrown at him by the visitors. He got up and came up to Boris. — However I embarrass you, — he said to him quietly, — let’s go, talk about the case, and I will leave. — Yes or no, anyway, — said Boris. —should you be tired, go into my room and lie down and rest. — And in the very case... They entered into the little room where Boris slept. Rostov, not sitting down, immediately again with irritation — as if Boris was in something to blame before him — started telling him the business of Denisov, asking, whether he wanted to and whether he may ask about Denisov through his general to the sovereign and through him deliver the letter. When they stayed together, Rostov for the first time was made sure that it was awkward to look into the eyes of Boris. Boris, laying down leg on leg and stroking with his left hand the subtle fingers of his right hand, listened to Rostov, as listens a general to the report of a subordinate, then looking at the side, then with that same glance planted into looking into the eyes of Rostov. Rostov at any time of this became awkward and he lowered his eyes. — I heard about such family affairs and know that the sovereign is very strict in these cases. I think you would not need to lead this before his majesty. To my mind, It would be better to ask the corps commander... but I think at all... — So you do not want to do it, say so! — almost shouted Rostov, not looking into the eyes of Boris. Boris smiled: — The opposite, I will do what I can, I only think... At this time at the door was heard the voice of Zhilinsky, calling Boris. — Well, go, go, go... — said Rostov and refused from dinner, and staying alone in the little room, he long went back and forward, and listened to the merry French dialect from the neighboring room. 461 Je voudrais voir le grand homme, (I would like to see the great man,) 462 Vous parlez de Buonaparte? (Are you talking about Buonaparte?) 463 Mon prince, je parle de l’empereur Napoléon, (My prince, I'm talking about the Emperor Napoleon,) 464 "Dans un moment je suis à vous" ("In a moment I am yours") 465 le comte N. N., le capitaine S. S., (Count N. N., Captain S. S.,) Time: 13th of June (twenty-fifth of June in Dole), one hour and fifty-three minutes, evening of the 24th of June
Mentioned: evening
Locations: Tilsit, Nyeman (Nieman in Dole, Briggs, and Bell)
Mentioned: France (also French), Russia, Pole, Paris
Pevear and Volkhonsky: We are now in June and get our refrence to Tilsit. We are back with Boris and see him ingratiating himself with a general and now speaking positive about Bonaparte. Boris is the one through whom the meeting is given to us, since we aren’t allowed to enter. Along with his roommate, a Polish Parisian, we see the mingling of the French and Russian upperclasses. This direct contrast with the hospital, especially the poor soldier hospital in chapter 17. Rostov enters the chapter and unsurprisingly, butts up against the idea of mingling and the flipping of allegiance to pro-French. Rostov doesn’t fit in with this group. “As always happens with people who are ill-humored, it seemed to him that everyone was looking at him hostilely and that he was hampering them all.”
Briggs: Nikolay's inopportune visit to Boris at Tilsit.
Maude: Boris at Tilsit. Nicholas's inopportune visit
Pevear and Volkhonsky (chapters 19-21): Nikolai goes to Tilsit to intercede for Denisov. Meeting of the tw emperors. Nikolai's reaction.
Translation:
XIX. Returning to the regiment and delivering to the commander in which position was found the business of Denisov, Rostov with the letter to the sovereign went to Tilsit. On the 13th of June, the French and Russian emperors gathered together in Tilsit. Boris Drubetskoy requested the major face, in which he was consisted, so that to be ranked in the retinue appointed to take place in Tilsit. — I would wish to see a great person, 461 — he said, talking about Napoleon, whom he before still always, as all, called Buonaparte. — You speak about Buonaparte?462 — said the smiling general to him. Boris interrogatively looked at his General and immediately got that this was a comic experiment. — Prince, I speak about Emperor Napoleon.463 — was his response. The general with a smile patted him on the shoulder. — You will go a long way, — he said to him and took him with himself. Boris was in the few in number that were on the Neiman at the day of the meeting of the emperors; he saw the rafts with the monograms, the traveling Napoleon passing the French guard, saw the brooding face of Emperor Aleksandr, at that time as he silently sat at the tavern at the guard of the Neiman, expecting the arrival of Napoleon; saw how both emperors sat down in boats and how Napoleon, stuck before to the raft, with fast steps went forward and, meeting Aleksandr, gave him his hand, and how both hid in the pavilion. To the time of his entry in the higher worlds, Boris made himself a habit of carefully watching that what was happening around him and writing it down. In the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked about the names of those persons which arrived with Napoleon, about the uniforms which were put on them, and carefully listened to the words, which were said by important faces. At that very time, as the emperor entered into the pavilion, he looked at his watch and did not forget to look again at the time, when Aleksandr got out of the pavilion. The meeting went on for an hour and fifty three minutes: so he wrote this down in the evening and a number of other facts that he believed historically mattered. As the suite of the emperor was very small, for a man appreciating success in service, to be found at Tilsit in the time of the meeting of the emperors was a very important business, and Boris, was hit in Tilsit by the feeling that from this time his position had completely improved. He not only knew, but he was taking a closer look than he was used to. Two times he carried out errands to the sovereign, so that the sovereign knew his face, and all the approximates not only were not shy with him, as before, considering him a new face, but would be surprised if he was not there. Boris lived with another adjutant, the Polish Count Zhilinsky. Zhilinsky, educated in Paris, was a rich Pole, passionately loving the French, and almost every day in the time of the stay at Tilsit Zhilinsky and Boris were going to dinners and breakfasts with French officers of the guard and the main French staff. On the night of the 24th of June, Count Zhilinsky, the roommate of Boris, arranged for their acquaintances a French dinner. At this dinner was an honorable guest, one adjutant of Napoleon, a few officers of the French guard and a young boy with an old aristocratic French name, the page of Napoleon. On this very day Rostov, taking advantage of the darkness, so that not to be recognized, in stately dress, had arrived at Tilsit and entered into the apartment of Zhilinsky and Boris. In Rostov, so the same as throughout the army from which he had arrived, still were a long way not accomplished in regarding Napoleon and the French, from enemies made friends, that coup which occurred in the main apartment and in Boris. All still continued in the army tested the former mixed feeling of anger, contempt and fear to Bonaparte and the French. More recently Rostov, talking with a Platovsky Cossack officer, argued that should Napoleon be taken in captivity, he would not be turned as a sovereign, but as a criminal. And more recently on the road, meeting with a French wounded colonel, Rostov got excited, proving to him that there may not be a peace between the legal sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. Therefore Rostov was weirdly struck in the apartment of Boris by the view of the French officers in those very uniforms that he used to really look at from flanker rows. Only as he saw leaning out of the door a French officer, this feeling of war and hostility, which he always felt in seeing the enemy, suddenly embraced him. He stopped on the doorstep and in Russian asked whether Drubetskoy lived here. Boris, having heard a foreign voice at the front, got out towards him. His face at the first moment, when he found Rostov, expressed annoyance. — Ah, this is you, very glad, very glad to see you, — he said however, smiling and moving forward to him. Yet Rostov saw his first move. — I am not in time it seems, — he said, — I would not have arrived, but I have business, — he said coldly... — No, I am only surprised how you from the regiment had arrived. — Now I am at your service,464 — he turned to the voice who called him. — I see that I am not in time, — repeated Rostov. The expression of annoyance now disappeared on the face of Boris; apparently pondering and having decided what to do, he with special calmness took him behind both hands and led him into the neighboring room. The eye of Boris, calmly and firmly watched Rostov, as if he was covered in something, as if dampered by something — the blue glasses of dormitories — were put on him. So it seemed to Rostov. — Ah, fully please, whether you can not be in time, — said Boris. — Boris introduced him to the room, where there was a covered dinner, introduced him to the guests, called him and explained that he was not stately, but an hussar officer, his old buddy. — Count Zhilinsky, Count Н. Н., Captain S.S.465 — he called the guests. Rostov frowningly saw the French, reluctantly bowed and kept silent. Zhilinsky, apparently, not happily accepted this new Russian face in their club and said nothing to Rostov. Boris, it seemed, did not notice what happened to the constraint of the new face and with that same enjoyable calmness and fog in his eyes, with which he met Rostov, tried to revive conversation. One of the French turned with the usual French courtesy to the stubbornly silent Rostov and said to him that probably so to see the emperor, he had arrived to Tilsit. — No, I have business, — was the short response of Rostov. Rostov was not in the spirit immediately again after this, as he saw the displeasure in the face of Boris, and, as always with people, which are not in spirit, to him it seemed that all hostilely watched him and that he was thrown to all. And really he hindered all and stayed alone beyond the again ensuing common conversation. "And what for he sits here?" said the looks which were thrown at him by the visitors. He got up and came up to Boris. — However I embarrass you, — he said to him quietly, — let’s go, talk about the case, and I will leave. — Yes or no, anyway, — said Boris. —should you be tired, go into my room and lie down and rest. — And in the very case... They entered into the little room where Boris slept. Rostov, not sitting down, immediately again with irritation — as if Boris was in something to blame before him — started telling him the business of Denisov, asking, whether he wanted to and whether he may ask about Denisov through his general to the sovereign and through him deliver the letter. When they stayed together, Rostov for the first time was made sure that it was awkward to look into the eyes of Boris. Boris, laying down leg on leg and stroking with his left hand the subtle fingers of his right hand, listened to Rostov, as listens a general to the report of a subordinate, then looking at the side, then with that same glance planted into looking into the eyes of Rostov. Rostov at any time of this became awkward and he lowered his eyes. — I heard about such family affairs and know that the sovereign is very strict in these cases. I think you would not need to lead this before his majesty. To my mind, It would be better to ask the corps commander... but I think at all... — So you do not want to do it, say so! — almost shouted Rostov, not looking into the eyes of Boris. Boris smiled: — The opposite, I will do what I can, I only think... At this time at the door was heard the voice of Zhilinsky, calling Boris. — Well, go, go, go... — said Rostov and refused from dinner, and staying alone in the little room, he long went back and forward, and listened to the merry French dialect from the neighboring room. 461 Je voudrais voir le grand homme, (I would like to see the great man,) 462 Vous parlez de Buonaparte? (Are you talking about Buonaparte?) 463 Mon prince, je parle de l’empereur Napoléon, (My prince, I'm talking about the Emperor Napoleon,) 464 "Dans un moment je suis à vous" ("In a moment I am yours") 465 le comte N. N., le capitaine S. S., (Count N. N., Captain S. S.,) Time: 13th of June (twenty-fifth of June in Dole), one hour and fifty-three minutes, evening of the 24th of June
Mentioned: evening
Locations: Tilsit, Nyeman (Nieman in Dole, Briggs, and Bell)
Mentioned: France (also French), Russia, Pole, Paris
Pevear and Volkhonsky: We are now in June and get our refrence to Tilsit. We are back with Boris and see him ingratiating himself with a general and now speaking positive about Bonaparte. Boris is the one through whom the meeting is given to us, since we aren’t allowed to enter. Along with his roommate, a Polish Parisian, we see the mingling of the French and Russian upperclasses. This direct contrast with the hospital, especially the poor soldier hospital in chapter 17. Rostov enters the chapter and unsurprisingly, butts up against the idea of mingling and the flipping of allegiance to pro-French. Rostov doesn’t fit in with this group. “As always happens with people who are ill-humored, it seemed to him that everyone was looking at him hostilely and that he was hampering them all.”
Rostov tries to get Boris to help Denisov. “Rostov realized for the first time that it was awkward for him to look Boris in the eye.”
Rostov ends up leaving angrily.
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 *):
Denisof
Rostof
Boris Drubetskoi
Napoleon (also “French emperor”, “Buonaparte”, l’Empereur Napoleon”)
Emperor Alexander (also “sovereign”. you could argue that the two emperors are characters inside the chapter since they are being watched after all)
Boris’s General
Count Zhilinsky (“...Zhilinski” in Maude, Briggs, and Mandelker. “Zylinksi” in Wiener. “Gelinski” in Bell.)
Platof (Rostof talks to a Cossack officer from his division)
(also, “distinguished individual to whose staff he (Boris) was attached” who seems to be different than his general. There are of course other people with the emperors that Boris watches)
(also “officer of the guards and imperial French staff, including “one of Napoleon’s aides, and a young lad belonging to an old aristocratic family, who was Napoleon’s page”)
(also a french colonel Rostof had argued with)
(N.N. and S.S. are mentioned again and here)
Abridged Versions: Chapter 23 in Bell. No break.
Gibian: Chapter 16.
Gibian: Chapter 16.
Fuller: entire chapter is cut
Komroff: The early conversation Boris has with the general about Napoleon is cut. Everything else, other than a few details here and there, is preserved and, just as the previous chapter was, followed by a line break.
Kropotkin: Chapter 9: A little bit of the detail about Boris' position is shortened. Chapter is preserved other than details here and there removed. Followed by a line break.
Simmons: Chapter 16: The Buonaparte/Emperor Napoleon episode is removed, but rest of chapter appears preserved.
Simmons: Chapter 16: The Buonaparte/Emperor Napoleon episode is removed, but rest of chapter appears preserved.
Additional Notes:
Rey: Page 180: "A lot has been written about the Tilsit meeting, including popular songs and poems like this one. The event has been subject to many and divergent interpretations due to its impact on Franco-Russian
relations and on the future of the European continent. For some, the division of Europe performed there to the detriment of England and Prussia illustrates an understanding between two sovereigns who were equally
ambitious and immoral. For others, Alexander was subjugated by Napoleon and had to suffer the ascendancy of a victor who could dictate his conditions. For still others, Tilsit was only a comedy played by two
peerless actors: "Declarations of friendship, handshakes, embraces, fantastic projects for shared conquests, --everything was just the postponement of hate," wrote Chateaubriand in a brilliant and murderous sally."
Herold: Page 185: “Napoleon and Czar Alexander of Russia meet on a raft near Tilsit, where they conducted secret negotiations. No one witnessed their discussion, but evidence indicates that the two emperors tried
to flatter each other into submission. The king of Prussia was excluded from the proceedings and waited on the shore in the rain for the outcome.”
Troyat: Page 104: “Since it was forbidden for any soldier who was not a member of the garrison to enter Tilsit, many officers billted on the right bank dressed as civilians and slipped into town to try to catch a glimpse
of Napoleon.”
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