Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 7

Characters Present:

Adjutant-General Baláshev
Napoleon Bonaparte 
Bessiérs
Caulauncourt
Berthier

Location: 

Vílna

Despite Baláshev thinking that he would not see Napoleon again, was invited to dine with him and some others that very evening. 

Napoleon is most pleasant throughout the meal, treating Baláshev as one of his own courtiers instead of someone associated with the enemy. 

Eventually Baláshev is taken aside by Napoleon who asks why Alexander has surrounded himself by his personal enemies, to which Baláshev does not reply.

Baláshev thinks that Napoleon is working himself up to another rant, but Napoleon instead tugs Baláshev's earlobe - the highest mark of honour to have bestowed on one by a French emperor. 

The letter that Baláshev takes to Alexander is the last that Napoleon ever sends to him, and it relays the details of Baláshev's interview with him, including the ear-tugging.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 6

Characters Present:

Adjutant-General Baláshev
Napoleon Bonaparte 

Location: 

Vílna

Baláshev is finally taken to see Napoleon, who is cordial to him at first and insists that he has not started the war. 

Baláshev tries to negotiate the Russian position with him several times but gives up as Napoleon descends into a shouty rant about how the Russians will crushed by his magnificent army.

At the end of his rant, Napoleon says that he is still as devoted to Alexander as he was before, and that he shall prepare a letter for Baláshev to take to him.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 5

Characters Present:

Adjutant-General Baláshev
Marshal Davoût

Location: 

A peasant's hut, then Vílna

Baláshev is taken to Marshal Davoút, who is described as being to Napoleon as Arachéev was to Alexander - that is high ranking, but as present as a wolf is in nature, which how he kept his position with gentle, noble Alexander, despite being precise, cruel and cowardly in the face of danger. 

Davoût continues to write at a makeshift desk outside a peasant's hut as Baláshev approaches, and the more animated Baláshev seems, the longer Davoût ignores him.

Eventually Baláshev manages to explain his rank and purpose, which makes Davoût even less respectful, and he takes the missive from Alexander. 

Baláshev is led around with the French for a few days, and is eventually taken back to the very house in Vílna that he had been dispatched from four days earlier, to have an audience with Napoleon.  The French had taken the village. 

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 4

Characters Present:

Tsar AlexanderAdjutant-General Baláshev, 
Murat, who has recently been crowned the King of Naples by Napoleon
Marshal Davoût

Location: 

Rykónty, then a mile and a half beyond, and then onto the next village.

At 2am, Alexander gives Baláshev his letter to be delivered to Napoleon.

Baláshev leaves immediately, and finds a French outpost in Rykónty.  The men there say they will take him to Napoleon, and he is instead taken to Murat, who seems to be a stupid and smug kind of person.

Murat argues that Alexander is the agressor, not Napoleon, and after some time, eventually wishes Baláshev well in completing his mission.

Baláshev, hoping he will now be taken to Napoleon, as it is now close to lunchtime, is instead taken onto the next village, to meet Marshal Davoût.

Volume 2: Book 9 - Chapter 3

Characters Present:

Tsar Alexander
Countess Hélène Berzúkhova
Borís Drubetskóy
Adjutant-General Baláshev

Location: 

A party at Count Bennigsen's country house in Zakret, in the Vílna province. 

Borís sees Adjutant-General Baláshev approach Alexander. He is unable to move from his position, thus he is the first to learn that Napoleon has crossed the Nieman river, and that Alexander is affronted that Napoleon hadn't even declared war before entering Russia.

Borís hears Alexander exclaim "I will not make peace as long as a single armed enemy stands in our country!".  Alexander is pleased with this turn of phrase, which quickly becomes famous, and he repeats a specifically anti-French version of it later in a letter to Field Marshall Prince Saltykóv.

Alexander then writes to to Napoleon, telling him that they are at war, unless it was a misunderstanding, in which case, Napoleon should just go back over the river.