What is the name of the famous battle featured in War and Peace?

The famous battle featured in War and Peace is the Battle of Borodino. Leo Tolstoy places the novel's central military climax in this enormous confrontation between Napoleon's invading French army and the Imperial Russian Army on 7 September 1812.

Borodino was fought near the village of the same name, west of Moscow, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov chose to make a major stand after a long retreat. Napoleon's forces captured important defensive positions, including the Raevsky redoubt and the Bagration flèches, but failed to destroy the Russian army.

The battle is often described as a French tactical victory, a Russian moral victory, or an indecisive and exceptionally costly engagement. More than 250,000 troops took part, and the casualties made it one of the bloodiest single days of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle opened the road to Moscow, but Napoleon's occupation of the city did not bring Russian surrender.