Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 13

Characters Present:

Nicholas Rostóv

General Bagratión

Prince Dolgorúkov,

Location:

The army camp in Olmütz

It is the evening of the day that the council of war took place, and Nicholas Rostóv is on watch, riding around the area that his platoon are camped in. 

Rostóv is so tired that he keeps dropping off to sleep, and wakes up to the sound of a gunshot coming from where the French were supposed to have retreated from.

He finds General Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov discussing the gunshots and he volunteers to go back over.  The French fire at Rostóv again, and he gallops back to the General and the Prince, who find out he is actually the young Count Rostóv, and tell him to stay with them.  Rostóv hopes that this will provide an opportunity to hand-deliver a letter to the Emperor in the morning.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 9

Characters Present:

Boris Drubetskóy

Prince Dolgorúkov - an adjutant-general [1]

Prince Adam Czartoryski (Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Location:

Olmütz

Boris travels from the military camp to Olmütz with the intention of speaking to Prince Andrew Bolkónski about being promoted to an adjutant.

Boris gets to see Prince Andrew on his second attempt, who throws his weight around and pauses a meeting with a general to speak with Boris, who is only a lieutenant.  Prince Andrew takes him to see Prince Dolgorúkov, who holds greater sway in such matters.

Prince Dolgorúkov gossips happily for a while but is called away just as Prince Andrew starts to ask for the promotion on behalf of Boris.  Prince Dolgorúkov agrees to do anything to help Prince Andrew and Boris, before greeting Prince Adam Czatoryski, who we learn Prince Andrew simultaneously admires and dislikes.

[1] An adjutant is a staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs

Book 2 - Chapter 12

Characters Present:

Emperor Francis
Prince Andrew Bolkónski
Bilíbin

Location: 

Palace, then Bilíbin's house

Bolkónski has his audience with the Emperor, and the Emperor's enthusiasm for the victory over Mortier seems to ingratiate Bolkónski to the rest of the court.

Bolkónski returns to Bilíbin's house to see a carriage hurriedly being packed with luggage.  Bilíbin races out and says that Thabor Bridge in Vienna was taken by the French before it could get blown up, and that the Russians were tricked by the French into to not doing so. 

Consequently, the French are now on the move to Brünn and the inhabitants of Brünn are now on the run to Olmütz.  Bilíbin invites Bolkónski to go with him to Olmütz, but Bolkönksi declines and starts packing to return to the army.