🏛 Bagration's (Semyonovskoye) Fleches

Можайский округ, Бородинское поле, у с. Семёновское

Earthworks of the left flank where Bagration was mortally wounded; regimental monuments stand all around.

On the eve of the battle the Russian army's left flank rested on just three unfinished fleches (arrow-shaped earthworks).
In the morning the fleches were defended by General Mikhail Vorontsov's 2nd Combined Grenadier Division.
During one of the counterattacks, Marshal Murat nearly fell into the hands of Russian cuirassiers.
For the decisive attack Napoleon massed around 45,000 infantry and cavalry and almost 400 guns at the fleches.
After Bagration was wounded, Konovnitsyn took command and withdrew the troops behind the Semyonovsky ravine.
In 1912 monuments to four divisions and a separate monument to the sappers were put up at the fleches.

Part of these routes