Andrei (Andrew) Bolkonsky Timeline and Summary

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• We meet Andrei in Petersburg with his pregnant wife Liza.
• Andrei advises Pierre to give up his partying lifestyle.
• During the first war against Napoleon, Andrei joins the military as an adjutant to General Kutuzov, leaving his wife with his father and sister.
• He is wounded in battle and has an out-of-body moment while looking at the sky. Napoleon saves him and lets him go.
• He gets back to his father's estate while his wife is in labor.
• After she dies in childbirth, Andrei feels guilty about the way he treated her and decides to devote himself to his son and family.
• In 1809 Andrei meets Natasha at a ball and falls in love with her.
• They get engaged, but his father doesn't approve and demands that they postpone the marriage for a year.
• Andrei goes abroad to recover from his war wounds and sends Natasha unromantic letters about his travels.
• When he returns, he learns that she has ended the engagement and has almost eloped with Anatole.
• After his father dies, Andrei decides to go back to the army.
• At the battle of Borodino, he is wounded in the stomach.
• Along with many of the other wounded, he is taken to Moscow.
• When Natasha and her family are fleeing, they take many wounded with them, including Andrei.
• Midway through the flight, Natasha finds out that Andrei is there, and goes to see him.
• He is very ill and is constantly in and out of consciousness. In the middle of his hallucinations, he realizes that she is with him.
• Andrei forgives Natasha and is in love with her again.
• He struggles to stay alive, but eventually just gives up.
• Andrei's sister and son come to see him for a few days, then he dies.