Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 3

Characters Present:

Count Ilya Rostóv

General Bagratión

Nicholas Rostóv

Vaska Denísov

Prince Dolgorúkov

Pierre Bezukhov
300 other men

Location:

The English Club, Moscow

The pre-dinner drinks go on, and we learn that Pierre  doesn't fit in properly with young men or old men, because of his wealth and youth, respectively.

Count Ilya Rostóv introduces his son, Nicholas Rostóv to General Bagratión, who has had his moustache trimmed.  Nicholas behaves awkwardly.

Dinner is served.

Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 17

Characters Present:

General Bagratión

Nicholas Rostóv

Prince Dolgurúkov

General Kutúzov

Location:

Pratzen 

Nicholas Rostóv is under the command of General Bagratión in the right flank of the army, who are yet to start fighting.

Bagratión disagrees with Prince Dolgurúkov's demand that they join the battle and sends Rostóv on a six mile trek, on which he will probably die, to ask General Kutúzov whether they should join or not.

Rostóv asks if he can ask the emperor if he runs into him first, which Bagratión agrees to.  Rostóv rides off happily, but upon reaching the other side of the army, realises that the Austrians and Germans are firing at each other, and that they are completely flanked by the French.

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 11

Characters Present:

Sketch Map II of Austerlitz [1]

Tsar Alexander

Napoleon Bonaparte

Prince Andrew Bolkónski

Prince Dolgorúkov 

Bilíbin

General Kutúzov

Location: 

Wischau/Austerlitz 

Tsar Alexander sends Prince Dolgorúkov, as a slight, to meet with Napoleon, who has requested a truce. 

The army march for two days and 180,000 men (French and allies combined) fight the Battle of Austerlitz. 

Prince Andrew and Prince Dolorúkov gossip about Napoleon's character, and argue about what the next strategic move should be, and Bilíbin tells them that they are both wrong because of several people and their locations, which he lists.  

General Kutúzov comes out of a meeting first with Count Tolstóy, and when asked by Prince Bolkónski what tomorrows battle will look like, replies that Count Tolstóy had responded to the same question with "My dear General, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military matters yourself."

[1] Tolstoy L, 1993, War and Peace, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Hertfordshire, p.205

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