What can ya do?

What can ya do?

Like Tara and Mike, I was also struck by the opening chapter of Book Nine. However, I interpreted it to mean not that no man was significant in the course of history, but rather that every man's actions are significant because they become intertwined into the greater whole of man's actions that then determine the course of events that follows.
What I find interesting are the characters' actions and thoughts in light of such an idea. For example, in Book Nine Chapter Nineteen Pierre decides that because L'russe Besuhof adds up to the number 666 just as L'Empereur Napoleon does, he must play a pivotal role in the bringing down of this supposed antichrist. He thinks "that his part in the great affair of setting a limit to the power of the beast...had been predestined from eternity, and that therefore he ought not to undertake anything, but wait for what was bound to come to pass" (593).

From the beginning of the novel Pierre has understood that the events that came to pass could not have been any other way, but does Pierre's understanding of this unified fate that Tolstoy speaks of make him a wise character? Or does his lack of desire for action mean that he has missed the whole point?