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He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman's uniform, all

these exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant

carriages with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers

and military men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an

insignificant officer of the Guards, that they not only did not

wish to, but simply could not, be aware of his existence. At the

quarters of the commander in chief, Kutuzov, where he inquired

for Bolkonski, all the adjutants and even the orderlies looked at

him as if they wished to impress on him that a great many

officers like him were always coming there and that everybody was

heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of it,

next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmutz and,

entering the house occupied by Kutuzov, asked for Bolkonski.