
Meanwhile, a foreman named Pavel Antipov complains to the railway management that the materials for their train tracks are totally unsafe.So everyone is just waiting around for it to start. Unfortunately, they can't all agree on a day to begin the strike. In the fall, a bunch of railway workers in Moscow decide to go on strike.He kisses her shamelessly, and she wonders how he has the guts to do it so openly. Komarovsky grabs her during the party and waltzes with her. Lara feels like she's swept up by things beyond her control.She can't go, though, and she tells him to take Lara instead.
One day, Komarovsky invites Amalia to a dance. Lara opens the chapter by wondering why her mother's suitor, Viktor Komarovsky, spends so much time staring at her and trying to seduce her. The seamstresses working in the dress shop even think about ways to kill it without anyone knowing it was they who did it. Komarovsky tends to come around with a bulldog named Jack that everybody hates. Amalia is always fretting about her business, so these visits seem justified. The lawyer Komarovsky spends a lot of time visiting Amalia and her family. We also find out that in the three months before she finds a place to rent, she stays in a hotel with her children. She has a tendency of running from one man to another. All we find out in this chapter is that Amalia Guichard is a very. But he also likes to cast long, lingering gazes on her daughter, Lara. It sounds like Komarovsky is romantically involved with Amalia. She does this based on the advice of her lawyer, Komarovsky, who was a friend of her deceased husband. To make some money, Amalia Guichard buys a small dressmaking business. She sends her daughter Larisa to a girls' high school, the same one attended by Nadya, who fell out of the boat in Part 1, Chapter 8. Around this time, a woman named Amalia Karlovna Guichard moves to Moscow with her two children, a son Rodion and a daughter Lara. The narrator tells us that while this war was happening, though, the real fighting was going on inside Russia itself. (Yes, that really happened.) This means that it must be sometime between 19, when the Russo-Japanese War happened. At this point, Russia is at war with Japan.