Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 19

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski
Prince Repnín
Lieutenant Sukhételen
Napoleon Bonaparte

Location: 

Pratzen

Prince Andrew Bolkónski keeps slipping in and out of consciousness, while still holding the standard, and finally wakes to find Napoleon Bonaparte standing above him, commenting on what a brave kind of death he had experienced.

Napoleon notices that Bolkónski is not dead, after he wiggles a bit, and gets his men to take him to camp to be treated by medics.  

Bolkónski wakes and finds Prince Repnín, the commander of a horse regiment, and Lieutenant Sukhételen with him.  Napoleon comes to review the captured men, and speaks with each of them, though Bolkónski is now having an existential crisis and does not reply. 

Napoleon requests that the three soldiers be taken to his tent to be seen to by his personal doctor, and the French troops who are present return a gold necklace that Bolkónski's sister had given to him, which they had had stolen earlier, due to his being in apparent favour with the emperor.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 16

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Location:

Pratzen

The allies have been surprised by the French army, who were much closer than expected.  

Chaos ensues with bullets whizzing all around.  Prince Andrew grabs a standard, and starts waving it to alert battalions further back that the fighting has started.  

Prince Andrew, having roused a good deal of the army, feels a pain in his head and wonders why his legs will no longer support him.  He falls to the ground and muses that he feels peaceful.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 15

Characters Present:

General Kutúzov

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Tsar Alexander

Tsar Alexander's entourage

Location:

Pratzen

The army is still marching into Pratzen.   Prince Andrew Bolkónski is unusually excited - he feels that today is the day that he leads the army to victory. General Kutúzov is going about looking grumpy, until he runs into Prince Andrew, who he asks to go an organise some sharp-shooters.

Tsar Alexander rides onto the field with his nicely dressed entourage and impatiently asks Kutúzov why nothing has begun.  Kutúzov says that not everyone has arrived yet and Tsar Alexander expresses his unhappiness.  Kutúzov says that he will do as Tsar Alexander pleases.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 14

Characters Present:

None specifically

Location: 

The army camp at Olmütz then Pratzen 

This chapter just outlines the movement of the Russian and German armies as they march into battle.

It is super foggy and the Russians are blaming the Germans for being slowed while marching.  The whole army is actually held up by the cavalry who moved forward too quickly and now has to circle back, which is holding up the infantry.  

Napoleon watches the army marching from a hill, and is pleased with the apparent disorganisation of the allies.  He will strike soon.