Chapter 27
Pierre is still in Moscow, and the French invasion manages to reach him by the 2nd of September. It's spiralling outwards in a relaxed manner. Pierre has also managed to gather something of a relaxed manner, by sorting through Joseph Alexeevich's study. He's having a bit of a crisis and has decided to remain in Moscow so he can either assassinate Napoleon or die himself - he doesn't seem terribly concerned as to which. I presume he succeeds in neither, since I'm under this impression this is not an alternate-universe telling of the history of the French invasion, and I've heard some spoilers about future plot elements which I'm trying not to think about, but which imply that Pierre lives a little longer. Pierre is feeling truly Russian, and as driven as he was to get to Borodino (before he learned what a battlefield is really like). He also can't back down, because he's told the Rostov's he's remaining and he feels like he would lose face if he didn't. He's pretty sure he's going to die, but he's okay with the romance of that. The servants are subduing a drunken rampage by Makar Alexeevich - Joseph's brother, who is also trying to kill Napoleon, but is too drunk to know who or what Napoleon is - when the French knock at the door.
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