War and Peace Thursday: Book 1, chapter 7

Making another go at War and Peace! I am seven chapters into it (the chapters are about four pages long so this is not very impressive), and so far the only character I can reliably identify is Pierre, because the French name sticks out like a sore thumb - as, indeed, does Pierre himself, who in those short chapters already been terribly gauche at Anna Pavlovna's soiree and gotten in trouble for dancing with a bear through the streets of St. Petersburg while terribly drunk. Otherwise I am lost, lost! in the sea of princes and princesses. But I daresay I'll sort them out eventually.