Briggs: Incoming soldiers block the bridge. There is looting.
Pevear and Volokhonsky: Shops looted by departing Russian troops.
Translation:
XXI.
The Russian troops passed through Moscow from two at night to two in the day and carried away for itself the last leaving inhabitants and wounded.
A big crush itself in the time of the movements of troops happened on the bridges of Stone, Moskvoretsky and Yausky.
In that time as, bifurcating around the Kremlin, the troops stole on Moskvoretsky and Stone bridges, a huge number of soldiers, taking advantage of the stopping and closeness, returned backwards from the bridges and stealthily and silently dived past Vasiliy the Blessed and under Borovitsky gate backwards at the mountain to Red Square, at which by some instinct they felt can take without labor another. Such the same crowd of people, as at the cheaper goods, filled Gostiny yard in all its moves and transitions. Yet was not affectionately sugary luring voices of hotel palaces, was not peddlers and a motley female crowd of purchasers — alone were uniforms and greatcoats soldiers without guns, silently with burdens leaving and without burdens entering in the ranks. Merchants and inmates (theirs was little), as lost, went between soldiers, unlocked and locked up their shops, and themselves with something well done carried out their goods. In the square at Gostiny court were standing drummers and a beating assembly. Yet the sound of the drum forced the soldier-robbers not to run off at the call, as before, but the opposite forced them to run back farther from the drum. Between the soldiers, by the shops and aisles, were seen people in gray caftans and with shaved heads. Two officers, one in a scarf uniform on lean, dark-gray horses, another in greatcoats, by foot were standing at the corner of Iliniki and spoke about something. The third officer jumped up to him.
— The general ordered what would be that or begin, now kick out all. What is this or what does not appear! Half the people fled.
— Where are you?.. Where are you?.. — he shouted at the third infantry soldier, who without a gun, picked up from the floor an overcoat, slipping past him in the ranks. — Stop, rogue!
— Yes here please gather them, — was the response of another officer. — They are not collected; we need to go soon, so that the last is not gone, here and all!
— How again to go? — there they become, stole on the bridge and do not move. Or is the chain put, so that the last is not fled?
— Yes come there again! Drive them out, — shouted the older officer.
The officer in a scarf tore from his horse, called the drummers and entered with him together under the arches. Some soldiers threw to run in the crowd. A merchant with red pimples by cheeks about his nose, with a calmly unshakable expression of calculation on a well fed face, hastily and dapper, swinging his hands, came up to the officer.
— Your nobleness, — he said, — Do a mercy, defend. We do not calculate the trifle of what we eat, with our pleasure! Please, a cloth now carries out, for a noble human though two pieces, with our pleasure! Because we feel this is what but, robbery alone! Please! Whether you would guard or put against, though would you lock up...
Some merchants crowded about the officer.
— Eh! It is empty to jerk that, — said one of them, thin with a strict face. — Having removed his head, by the hair he does not cry. — Take, what anyone can! — and he in an energetic gesture waved his hand and sideways turned to the officer.
— You, Ivan Sidorych, speak okay, — angrily began talking the first merchant. — You please, your nobleness.
— What do you speak! — shouted a thin one, — I have here in three shops 100 thousand goods. Don't take away when the army is gone. Oh, people, God’s power is not in the hands of the flesh.
— Please, your nobleness, — spoke the first merchant bowing. — The officer stood in perplexity, and on his face was visible indecision.
— And what for me is the business! — he shouted suddenly and went in fast steps forward by a number. In one unlocked shop was heard strokes and swear words, and in that time as the officer approached it, from the door jumped out a pulled out person in a gray army jacket and with a shaved head.
This person, bent over, slipped through by the merchants and the officer. The officer let go to the soldier, formerly in the shop. Yet at this time the scary shouting of the great crowd was heard on Moskvoretsky bridge, and the officer ran out to the area.
— What is so? What is so? — he asked, but his fellow now galloped by the direction to the screams, past Vasiliy the Blessed. The officer sat down on horseback and went behind him. When he drove to the bridge, he saw the taking from the front of two guns, the infantry, going by the bridge, a few knocked down carts, a few scared persons and the laughing face of a soldier. Beside the guns stood one wagon, a harnessed pair. Behind the wagon’s back wheels huddled four greyhound dogs in collars. In a wagon was a mountain of things, and on the very top, nearby with a child up on the legs of an inverted high chair, sat a woman, piercingly and frantically squealing. Friends told the officer that the shouts of the crowd and squeals of women occurred because of how run over on this crowd General Ermolov, upon learning that the soldiers disassembled by the shops, but the crowd of the inhabitants dam the bridge, ordered to take off the guns from the front and to make an example, that he will fire by the bridge. The crowd, going ahead of the wagons, crushing each other, frantically shouted, crowded together to clear the bridge, and the troops moved forward.
Time: two o'clock in the night to two o'clock in the afternoon
Locations: Moscow, Stone (Kamenny in Briggs, Garnett, Dunnigan, and Pevear and Volokhonsky. Kamennoi in Dole.), Moskva (Moskvoretsky in Pevear and Volokhonsky. Moskvoryetsky in Garnett. Moscow in Mandelker. Moskovoretsky in Dole, who calls it Moscow the second time.), Yauza (the last three are bridges. Yauzsky in Pevear and Volokhonsky, Dole, and Garnett. Yaouza in Bell.), Kremlin, Church of Basil the Blessed (St. Basil's in Briggs. Vasili the Beatified in Maude. Vassily the Blessed in Garnett. Vasili the Blessed in Mandelker. Vasily Blazhenny in Dunnigan. Vassili-Blagennoi in Bell. Vasili Blazhennui in Dole), Borovitski Gate (Borovitsky... in Briggs, Garnett, Mandelker, Dunnigan, and Pevear and Volokhonsky. Borovitskiya in Dole), Fair Esplanade (Red Square in Briggs, Maude, Garnett, Mandelker, Dunnigan, Bell, and Pevear and Volokhonsky. Place Rouge in Bell footnote. Krasnaya Ploshchad or Red Place in Dole), Merchant Row (Gostiny Bazaar in Briggs. Gostinny bazaar in Garnett. Shopping Arcade in Pevear and Volokhonsky. Bazaar in Maude, Dunnigan, and Mandelker. Gostinnoi-Dvor in Bell with footnote of The Bazaar of Moscow. Gostinnui Dvor--Moscow's great bazaar in Dole.), Ilinka (Ilyinka Street in Maude, Dunnigan, and Pevear and Volokhonsky. Ilyinka corner in Briggs.)
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: We go back to the Russian troops passing through Moscow and looting, which Tolstoy analogizes as people rushing in to buy things at a commercial sale, an analogy that is even more relevant for the modern reader. The officers try to round up the men but find it impossible. The shopkeepers plead with the officers to help them. "Why weep for your hair when your head's cut off. Let them take what they like!"
Ermolov threatens to shoot cannon at the crowd, which disperses everyone and unblocks the bridge, which is certainly not the first or last time a blocked bridge is a problem in the novel.
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 *):
General Yermolof
(also the Russian troops, officers, including one that is differentiated by a scarf, and shopkeepers, including one differentiated by having red pimples all over his nose and another who is called Ivan Sidoruitch, see Chapter 133 for variations on the second name, in general, along with the last fleeing inhabitants and the wounded. Also a squealing peasant woman and the crowds that are dispersed in general.)
Abridged Versions: Chapter 17 in Bell with a line break at the end rather than a chapter break.
Gibian: line break instead of chapter break.
Fuller: Entire chapter is cut.
Komroff: Entire chapter is cut.
Kropotkin: Chapter is preserved other than a few minor details until "But, after all, what business is it of mine?" he suddenly cried, and went with swift strides toward the front of the line." The chapter cuts after this, ending chapter 9. This cuts out the Yermolof episode at the end of the chapter that works to end the chaos.
Bromfield: The information here is packed with Pierre's encounter with the Frenchmen in his attempt to assassinate Napoleon and will thus be discussed in a later chapter.
Additional Notes: Dole: "Vasili Blazhennui, the many-bulbed, turreted, fasceted, and fantastic cathedral of St. Basil, built by Ivan the Terrible, who, in order that it should not be reduplicated, had the architect's eyes put out."
Maude points out that those with closely-shaven heads are recently released prisoners.
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