All 49 Uses of
Vienna
in
War and Peace
- "But tell me," he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motive of his visit, "is it true that the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna?†
Chpt 1
- A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops arrived from Russia.†
Chpt 2
- Kutuzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions.†
Chpt 2
- From Vienna Kutuzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew's father.†
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- "If we get to Vienna I'll get rid of it there but in these wretched little towns there's nowhere to spend it," said he.†
Chpt 2
- Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz).†
Chpt 2
- The defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of.†
Chpt 2
- Instead of an offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutuzov when he was in Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm.†
Chpt 2
- As a mark of the commander in chief's special favor he was sent with the news of this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was threatened by the French) but at Brunn.†
Chpt 2
- They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutuzov.†
Chpt 2
- He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna.†
Chpt 2
- Both the foreign minister and our ambassador in Vienna knew him and valued him.†
Chpt 2
- You abandon Vienna, give up its defense—as much as to say: 'Heaven is with us, but heaven help you and your capital!'†
Chpt 2
- It's too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!"†
Chpt 2
- Vienna occupied?†
Chpt 2
- "Count Lichtenfels was here this morning," Bilibin continued, "and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement….†
Chpt 2
- How is it Vienna was taken?†
Chpt 2
- We heard reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?" he said.†
Chpt 2
- But Vienna is on the other side.†
Chpt 2
- The gentlemen assembled at Bilibin's were young, wealthy, gay society men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilibin, their leader, called les notres.†
Chpt 2
- If we were in Vienna it would be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, and I beg you all to help me.†
Chpt 2
- This affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna….†
Chpt 2
- The French entered Vienna as I told you.†
Chpt 2
- Ah, from Vienna?†
Chpt 2
- The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops that were arriving from Russia.†
Chpt 2
- If Kutuzov decided to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmutz, to unite with the troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides.†
Chpt 2
- The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles off on the line of Kutuzov's retreat.†
Chpt 2
- The road for the French from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the Russians from Krems to Znaim.†
Chpt 2
- The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim to the Vienna-Znaim road.†
Chpt 2
- Bagration was to make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as possible.†
Chpt 2
- Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.†
Chpt 2
- Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.†
Chpt 2
- The success of the trick that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way.†
Chpt 2
- To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving.†
Chpt 2
- The Austrians let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor.†
Chpt 2
- The "cream of really good society" consisted of the fascinating Helene, forsaken by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man referred to in that drawing room as "a man of great merit" (un homme de beaucoup de merite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, and several other less noteworthy persons.†
Chpt 5
- Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them.†
Chpt 5
- That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet," said the Danish charge d'affaires.†
Chpt 5
- "We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of Austria," said Mortemart.†
Chpt 5
- (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse!"†
Chpt 5
- The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre.†
Chpt 5
- If it is said that he expected to end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary.†
Chpt 10
- The first people to go away were the rich educated people who knew quite well that Vienna and Berlin had remained intact and that during Napoleon's occupation the inhabitants had spent their time pleasantly in the company of the charming Frenchmen whom the Russians, and especially the Russian ladies, then liked so much.†
Chpt 11
- Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned it and did not welcome the French with bread and salt, nor bring them the keys of the city.†
Chpt 11
- Pierre knew all the details of the attempt on Bonaparte's life in 1809 by a German student in Vienna, and knew that the student had been shot.†
Chpt 11
- We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Warsaw, all the world's capitals….†
Chpt 11
- "I think it is delightful," he said, referring to a diplomatic note that had been sent to Vienna with some Austrian banners captured from the French by Wittgenstein, "the hero of Petropol" as he was then called in Petersburg.†
Chpt 12
- Then the skillful statesmen and diplomatists (especially Talleyrand, who managed to sit down in a particular chair before anyone else and thereby extended the frontiers of France) talked in Vienna and by these conversations made the nations happy or unhappy.†
Chpt 15
- Today he ordered such and such papers to be written to Vienna, to Berlin, and to Petersburg; tomorrow such and such decrees and orders to the army, the fleet, the commissariat, and so on and so on—millions of commands, which formed a whole series corresponding to a series of events which brought the French armies into Russia.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Vienna) the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria