Julie Karagina
A rich heiress
BOOK ONE
Part One
7 Jan: Chapter 7
She visits the Rostovs with her mother where they talk about the dying Count Bezukhov and his wayward son, Pierre. Her mother mentions that she declines to introduce him to her daughters.
8 Jan: Chapter 8
The young Julie is clearly not very keen to be there and is set apart when all the other younger family members rush in.
9 Jan: Chapter 9
She seems to brighten up with Nikolai in the room and is a little flirtatious with the boy off to war.
15 Jan: Chapter 15
At Natasha’s name day, Julie sits with Nikolai, making Sonya jealous.
22 Jan: Chapter 22
After visiting the Rostovs, Julie Karagina writes to her friend Marya Bolkonskaya at Bald Hills. She writes affectionately of Marya, who believes she is being flattered. And she tells Marya of her “sweet friendship” with Nikolai, or Pierre’s inheritance, and the plans afoot to wed Marya to the “handsome scapegrace”, Anatole Kuragin.
BOOK TWO
Book 2, Part 4
16 May: Chapter 8
After the death of her brother, Julie Karagina has become a rich heiress. The Countess Rostova makes overtures to marry her son Nikolai to Julie. Nikolai argues with his mother and thinks Julie is “doll-like,” someone whom he could never love and who will not make him happy.
Book 2, Part 5
26 May: Chapter 5
Boris devotes an arduous month of simulated melancholy in the courtship of the rich heiress Julie Karagina — a woman of twenty-seven years and two huge tracts of land. He writes her some soulfully bad poetry and Anna Mikhailovna turns up to check the accounts. The sudden arrival of Anatole Kuragin on the scene finally seals the deal: the no-longer melancholic couple make plans for a brilliant wedding.
29 May: Chapter 8
Boris is with his betrothed and his mother at the opera. Natasha thinks they are talking about her. ‘And he no doubt is calming her jealousy of me.’
BOOK THREE
Part Two
Chapter 17
As danger approaches Moscow, society grows less serious. Everyone is making jokes, some better than others. In the circle of Julie Drubetskaya, French is prohibited on pain of forfeit. Julie gossips about Pierre, Natasha and Marya.
I get confused between Kuragin and Karagina; obvious now that I write it that these are two different names