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Chapter 6

           

           “Isaidfromthefirst,”declaredAnnaPávlovnareferringtoPierre,“Isaidatthetimeandbeforeanyoneelse”(sheinsistedonherpriority)“thatthatsenselessyoungmanwasspoiledbythedepravedideasofthesedays.Isaidsoevenatthetimewheneverybodywasinrapturesabouthim,whenhehadjustreturnedfromabroad,andwhen,ifyouremember,heposedasasortofMaratatoneofmysoirees.Andhowhasitended?Iwasagainstthismarriageeventhenandforetoldallthathashappened.”

           AnnaPávlovnacontinuedtogiveonfreeeveningsthesamekindofsoireesasbefore—suchasshealonehadthegiftofarranging—atwhichwastobefound“thecreamofreallygoodsociety,thebloomoftheintellectualessenceofPetersburg,”assheherselfputit.BesidesthisrefinedselectionofsocietyAnnaPávlovna’sreceptionswerealsodistinguishedbythefactthatshealwayspresentedsomenewandinterestingpersontothevisitorsandthatnowhereelsewasthestateofthepoliticalthermometeroflegitimatePetersburgcourtsocietysodearlyanddistinctlyindicated.

           Towardtheendof1806,whenallthesaddetailsofNapoleon’sdestructionofthePrussianarmyatJenaandAuerstädtandthesurrenderofmostofthePrussianfortresseshadbeenreceived,whenourtroopshadalreadyenteredPrussiaandoursecondwarwithNapoleonwasbeginning,AnnaPávlovnagaveoneofhersoirees.

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