pierre bezukhov in scotland?

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Dear Elif Batuman,
Tolstoy is AGAIN not telling us the whole story about one of his major 
characters (Who is Pierre's mother?  Why had he been sent abroad early 
in life?  What is he doing with a French name?  Where exactly did he 
grow up?).  Better to keep the reader guessing.

Some of the guesswork on Freemasonry has been done by

Baehr 1985
Baehr 1987
Buryshkin 1946
Leighton 1987

You may also find information on Freemasonry in Russia in Luchinskii 
1902, Mel'gunova and Sidorova 1914-1915, Piksanov 1947, and Pypin 1916.

- These items all from the Bibliography of my study TOLSTOY'S PIERRE 
BEZUKHOV (London: Bristol Classical Press / Duckworth, 1993).

Regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Emeritus Professor of Russian
University of California, Davis


Elif Batuman wrote:

>Later in WP we see Pierre in his study transcribing the original
>"shotlandskie akty," which is translated as "transactions of the Scottish
>Rite" - does this mean that he went to the "Scots Lodges" on the Continent,
>and not the "Lodge of Scotland" in Scotland?
>
>Any information on this subject will be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Elif Batuman
>
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