Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 19
Nikolai's first battle at the Enns bridge / Schongrabern, fleeing in terror and confusion — the demolition of military romanticism.
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Volume II, Part 4, Chapter 4
The wolf hunt — Nikolai in his element of instinctive Russian gentry life.
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