Two types of characters in War and Peace

As the French troops leave Moscow, with the prisoners (including Pierre) on a forced march, even those suffering from "bleeding diarrhea" (ugh), the stragglers to be shot - and as Russian Gen. Kutuzov tries in every possible way to avoid battle, which may be the best strategy, but is drawn into attack by the enthusiasm of those around him and by intelligence from (Polish) deserters and captives - it occurs to me that there really are two types of Tolstoyan characters in War and Peace. One type is the "private" character, or actually the fictional character the pure creation of Tolstory: Pierre, Andrei, Nikolai, Marya, Natasha, Sonya, Helene. They may have counterparts in Tolstoy's life, but they are unique to this novel. These characters have rich interior lives (most of them), and complex webs of social relations, to one another and to others in their strata of society. All novels have this, to a degree. The other type are the public or historical characters: Napoleon, Kutuzov, Rastopchin, other Russian generals. These characters have no web of social relations at all, and although we occasionally have access to their thinking and scheming, they don't have an interior life of emotions and perceptions. These are more typical of historical novels, but unlike a novel that is purely based on historical characters (I don't read many of these), the historical characters in War and Peace are defined by, confined by, the public record of their actions. Tolstoy is not interested in pushing them beyond what is historically known about them - to see whom they loved, who their friends were, etc. - he bases them entirely on what's available in the historic record. This could be a defect in a less copious work, but because we have such fully developed fictional characters in the foreground, we can accept that the historical characters are flat. The novel gains its depth by other means.