In the year 1812, when news of the war with Napoleon reached Bucharest⁠—where Kutúzov had been living for two months, passing his days and nights with a Wallachian woman⁠—Prince Andréy asked Kutúzov to transfer him to the Western Army. Kutúzov, who was already weary of Bolkónski’s activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.