🖼 Borodino Military History Museum-Reserve

Можайский округ, Бородинское поле, у д. Бородино

The main exhibition about the 1812 battle in the centre of the Borodino Field, with Raevsky's Battery and the Main Monument nearby.

It is the oldest of the battlefield museums; the first “Museum of 1812” was set up in 1903 by staff of Borodino station in a room of the station building.
For the battle's centenary in 1912, regiments and divisions put up monuments to their ancestors on the field with their own money.
In October 1941 Colonel Viktor Polosukhin's 32nd Division held the defence on the field for six days.
The Germans turned the museum building into a slaughterhouse and burned it when retreating; the exhibits had been evacuated to Alma-Ata in time.
The museum reopened in the rebuilt building on 15 October 1944.
The Borodino Field was declared a museum-reserve on 31 May 1961; today it has about 300 memorial sites.
The monument to the dead of the Grande Armée was unveiled in 1912 with the participation of a French military delegation.

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