War and Peace · primary
Balashëv
fictional · male
A Russian general tasked with delivering a message to Napoleon.
Titles
General · adjutant general
Appearances
- First: Book NINE · Chapter IV · ¶ 1
- Latest: Book NINE · Chapter VII · ¶ 25
Relationships
Political alliance · Napoleon Bonaparte
“Balashëv to repeat them personally to Napoleon.”
Social acquaintance · the vice-King
“Murat again interrupted him, 'with all my heart I wish the Emperors may arrange the affair between them, and that the war begun by no wish of mine may finish as quickly as possible!'”
Social acquaintance · Napoleon Bonaparte
“Napoleon met Balashëv cheerfully and amiably.”
Social acquaintance · Napoleon Bonaparte
“Napoleon not only treated him amiably but behaved as if Balashëv were one of his own courtiers.”
Mentor (Emperor) · Alexander I
“the Emperor, having sent for Balashëv and read him his letter to Napoleon, ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor.”
Military command (adjutant general) · the Emperor
“Balashëv hastened to inform him of his rank and mission.”
Student · Alexander I
“the Emperor, having sent for Balashëv and read him his letter to Napoleon, ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor.”
Quotations
“ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor”
“Monsieur de Bal-machève”
“Balashëv found Davout seated on a barrel”
“Balashëv hastened to inform him of his rank and mission”
“Balashëv took out the packet containing the Emperor’s letter”
“Balashëv had seen at the court of the Emperor of Russia”
“asked Balashëv to follow him”
“Balashëv began a speech he had prepared long before”
“Balashëv added that the Emperor Alexander wished for peace”
“the withdrawal of your army beyond the Niemen, sire”
“On the contrary, Your Majesty, the troops are burning with eagerness...”
“Balashëv said that in Russia the best results were expected from the war.”
“Balashëv felt convinced that Napoleon would not wish to see him”
“having placed Balashëv beside him, Napoleon not only treated him amiably”
“Balashëv respectfully ventured to disagree with the French Emperor”
“returned Balashëv, besides Russia there is Spain”
“the forty-year-old Russian general’s face”