Volume 3: Book 13 - Chapter 9

Characters Present:

Napoleon

Location: 

Moscow

Napoleon restores order to Moscow by declaring that the people who set the fires shall be punished.  

He writes a letter to Tsar Alexander, telling him that Count Rostopchín had been terrible, and then he makes Rostopchín burn his own houses down. 

Napoleon reinstates church services, and posts a proclamation encouraging citizens to return to their homes.

He sends Murat out in search of Kutúzov.

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.