Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Kashi na biyu ya buɗe tare da kwatancin shirye-shiryen yaƙin Rasha da Faransa. A cikin alkawarin Schöngrabern
, Nikolai Rostov, yanzu ya zama jami'in soja a cikin hussars, yana da dandano na farko na yaƙi. Boris Drubetskoy ya gabatar da shi ga Yarima Andrei, wanda Rostov ya zagi a cikin tashin hankali. Yana da matukar sha'awar Tsar Alexander. Nikolai ya yi caca kuma ya yi hulɗa da jami'insa, Vasily Dmitrich Denisov, kuma ya yi abokantaka da Fyodor Ivanovich Dolokhov mara tausayi. Bolkonsky, Rostov da Denisov sun shiga cikin mummunan yakin Austerlitz, wanda Yarima Andrei ya ji rauni sosai yayin da yake ƙoƙarin ceton tutar Rasha.