Briggs: Pierre under interrogation. Fourteen men await their verdict.
Maude (chapters 9-13): Pierre's treatment as a prisoner. He is questioned by Davout. Shooting of prisoners. Platon Karataev
Pevear and Volokhonsky: Pierre under arrest. Interrogation.
Translation:
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At the guardhouse, where Pierre was taken somewhere, the officers and soldiers who took him, turned with him hostilely, but together with that and respectfully. Still feeling in their relations to him and doubting about who such he was (whether or not a very important person), and hostility owing to their still fresh personal fight with him.
Yet when, on the morning of the next day, as had come the shift, Pierre felt that for the new guard — for the officers and soldiers — he now did not have this sense, which he had for those that took him. And really, at this big, thick man in peasant caftans, the guards of the next day did not see this living human, which so frantically fought with the marauder and with the convoy soldiers and said the triumphant phrase about the salvation of the child, but saw only the 17th of that what was held by the order of higher superiors, taken Russians. If there was something special in Pierre, that only was his not timid, focused and pensive view, and the French tongue in which he surprisingly for the French well expressed himself. Despite that, on that same day Pierre was united with other taken suspicious people, so as a separate room, which he occupied was needed an officer.
All the Russians held with Pierre were people of low titles themselves. And all of them, upon learning Pierre was a baron, were alienated by that more that he spoke French. Pierre with sadness heard above himself ridicule.
On the next night Pierre found out that all these held (and probably he was in this same number) were to be convicted for arson. On the third day Pierre was led with the others to some house, where were sitting a French general with a white mustache, two colonels and other French with scarves in their hands. Pierre, on a par with the others, was made with that imaginary exceeding human weakness, precision and definiteness, with which is usually turned with defendants, questions about who he was. Where he was. With what purpose. And so on.
These questions, leaving to the side the essence of vital affairs and excluding the opportunity to uncover these entities, as all questions being made in courts, had the purpose only for substituting the trough, by which the judging wanted, so that flowed answers of the defendant and: brought him to the desired goals, i.e. to accusation. Only as he started to speak something such that did not satisfy the goals of accusations, so took the trough, and the water could flow to anything. Besides this Pierre experienced that same that in all courts test defendants: perplexity, for what were made to him all these questions. He felt that only from indulgence, or as would out of courtesy was used this trick of substituting the trough. He knew that he was found in authority of these people, that only power brought him here, that only power gave them the right to require answers to the questions, that the only objective of this gathering consisted in so to accuse him. And therefore, so as was the power was the wish to accuse, that was not needed the tricks of issues and trial. It was obvious that all answers were to bring to guilty. To the question of what he did, when he was taken, Pierre responded with some tragedy that he carried to parents a child, saving them from the flames.925 — For what he fought with the marauder? Pierre responded that he protected a woman, that the protection of an insulted woman is the duty of each man, that... He was stopped: this was not going to business. For what was he in the courtyard of a lit up home, in which he was seen by witnesses? He responded that he was walking to look at what was done to Moscow. He again was stopped: he was not asked where he was walking, but for what he was found beside a fire. Who is he? Was repeated to him the first question, at which he said that he did not want to respond. Again he responded that he may not say this.
— Write down, this is no good. Extremely not good, — strictly said to him the general with the white mustache and red rosy face.
On the fourth day fires began at Zubovsky shaft.
Pierre with 13 others were taken somewhere to the Crimean ford to a carriage shed of a merchant home. Passing by the street, Pierre was gasping for breath from the smoke, which, it seemed, stood above all the town. From different parties were seen fires. Pierre then still did not understand the meanings of the burning of Moscow and with horror watched these fires.
In the carriage barn at the home at the Crimean ford Pierre stayed four more days and in the time of these days from the conversation of the French soldiers found out that all held here awaited with every afternoon the decision of a marshal. Which marshal, Pierre could not know from the soldiers. For the soldiers the marshal obviously presented the highest and a somewhat mysterious link to the authorities.
This first day to the 8th of September, the day in which the captives were to the secondary interrogation, were the most heavy for Pierre.
925 qu’il avait sauvé des flammes. (that he had saved from the flames.)
Locations: guard-house, Moscow, the carriage-shed of a merchant's house in the Crimea Ford (Crimean Ford in Briggs, Dole (who also uses Kruimsky Brod) and Dunnigan. Crimean bridge in Mandelker. just coach-house of a large warehouse in Bell.)
Mentioned: Russians, French, Zubov Rampart
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: We flip to Pierre in the guardhouse being treated hostilely. When he is put with the rest of the Russian prisoners, he is treated badly by them because he is obviously a gentleman and knows French.
Pierre is then bombarded by questions he can't answer, which allows Tolstoy to talk about the meaninglessness of court questions. The fires continue and Pierre doesn't understand the significance of the fires, they only make him choke.
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 *):
Pierre (also No.17 of the Russian prisoners who had been taken. Also "barin".)
(also the officer and soldiers who had him in charge followed by the new guard. Also the marauder and the horse patrol Pierre fought with, as well as the child and her parents. Also the other suspects. Also a French general with a white mustache, two colonels, and several other Frenchmen. Also the witnesses that saw him. Also a merchant who owns a mansion that Pierre is forced to stay at. There is also the mention of an unidentified marshal that we later learn is Davoust. I'm not sure whether or not that should count as a mention.)
Abridged Versions: Start of Chapter 3 in Bell. No break.
Gibian: Chapter 3: line break at "and red flushed face." Line break instead of chapter break at the end.
Fuller: Chapter cuts off early, with a line break, with Pierre and the prisoners starting at the fires. This cuts out the section that introduces that they will be interrogated by an unknown marshal.
Line break at "white moustache and red flushed face." in Maude.
Komroff: The questioning of Pierre is shortened, particularly the section that philosophizes what purpose the questioning served. The final paragraph, which tells us that this was a particularly hard time for Pierre, is also removed.
Kropotkin: Chapter 7: The information leading up to the question, as well as the section that philosophizes what purpose the questioning served is shortened. The chapter then cuts off after we are told that various fires have popped up everywhere, with no break. This cuts out the lead up to the marshal, which avoids somewhat of a repeat that combining the following chapter with this one might lead to.
Simmons: Chapter 3: entire chapter is cut and replaced with: "Pierre is tried with others for incendiarism. He witnesses the execution of five of his fellow prisoners by the French and expects to be shot next, but at the last moment he is pardoned."
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