🖼 Borodino Battle Panorama Museum

Кутузовский пр-т, 38

A round building of 1962 with a huge panorama and a foreground display about the battle of 1812.

Franz Roubaud painted the panorama in Munich in 1911–1912 for the battle's 100th anniversary; the canvas measures 15 by 115 m.
The panorama was first shown in 1912 in a wooden pavilion on Chistye Prudy; Nicholas II attended the opening.
Then the canvas lay rolled up in storage for years, and of 1,725 m² about 900 m² was lost.
The museum on Kutuzovsky opened on 18 October 1962, for the 150th anniversary of the victory.
In 1967 a fire destroyed about 60% of the panorama; the lost parts were restored by artists of the Grekov Studio.
The museum stands on the site of the village of Fili, where in 1812 Kutuzov decided at a council of war to abandon Moscow.
The monument to Kutuzov at the entrance was put up in 1973.

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