Osip Alexeevich Bazdeev
Freemason
BOOK TWO
Book Two, Part Two
23 Mar: Chapter 1
Bazdeev meets Pierre at the Torzhok post-station. He is described as a “short, large -boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old man, with grey bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite greyish colour.” He has a death’s read ring and fixes Pierre with a steady and severe gaze.
24 Mar: Chapter 2
Bazdeev explains why he thinks Pierre hates his life, and tells him not to return to his former way of life. When Pierre gets to Petersburg he is to hand a note to Count Willarksi.
Book Two, Part Three
20 Apr: Chapter 8
Pierre sinks into depression. He is under pressure to return to his wife, but feels unable to make that step. He goes to see Bazdeev who is living poorly and suffering a great deal. Bazdeev tells him to focus on the improvement of the self. Pierre begins a diary and moves back in with his wife.
Is this the same person whose death Pierre is mourning in Book Two, Part Five, chapter one? The original Mason?
The name is spelled differently, “Bazdeyev”.
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