Volume III, Part 3, Chapter 27
Pierre saves a child from a burning house and is arrested by the French.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Pierre stays in occupied Moscow with a plan to assassinate Napoleon, is captured, and undergoes his decisive spiritual transformation in captivity.
Volume IV, Part 1, Chapter 12
Pierre meets Platon Karataev in the prisoner shed — the round, simple peasant who incarnates the Russian peasant soul.
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Pierre's revelation gazing at the stars: "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is I!"
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