The last day of Moscow came. It was clear, cheerful autumn weather. It was Sunday. As on ordinary Sundays, mass was preached in all the churches. No one, it seemed, could yet understand what awaited Moscow...
As the Rostovs ' carts circled the Sukharev tower, Natasha noticed Pierre.
"Look, by God, Bezukhov! Natasha was saying, leaning out of the carriage window and looking at a tall, fat man in a coachman's coat...
He walked down the street with his head down and a serious face. Beside him walked a small beardless old man who looked like a footman.
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As we remember " old man, like a footman" - this is Gerasim " servant" Joseph Bazdeev, due to the absence of the owner in Moscow, who fulfilled the requests of Pierre Bezukhov [in particular, at the time of the meeting with Natasha Rostova, they went to buy a gun on Sukharevka Pierre].
But Pierre before meeting Natasha sat [according to Leo Tolstoy] in the abandoned house of Joseph Bazdeev, where it occurred to him to rummage through the papers - the most, I must say, time in the city, where there is a continuous evacuation.
Imagine for a moment that this is the 41st and the Germans are about to enter the city. In district committees urgently pack and take out archives of party and economic workers that was from whom further to create diversionary groups on temporarily occupied territory and that these lists did not get to the enemy, certainly.
For reference: "Brother Bazdeev" - Joseph Pozdeyev-a pillar of Russian capital Freemasonry.
Pierre, who by right & quot;Golden youth" of that time, according to the novel & quot;War and peace", did not think of anything but mischief and extravagance, turns out to be an expert in the office of such a person as & quot; Josephus"?
Personally, in Tolstoy's scene on Sukharevka, I am not interested in where Natasha and Pierre met - since count Tolstoy was not too lazy to tell us so much about this insignificant episode-but why did the owners of the Tower need this "Bazaar-station"at the very entrance to the secret rooms?