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      🏛 Raevsky's Battery and the Main Monument

      Можайский округ, Бородинское поле, Курганная высота

      A mound-top height in the centre of the Russian position, fought over in the heaviest battles; on it stand the Main Monument to Russian soldiers and Bagration's grave.

      Raevsky's Battery and the Main Monument
      © Andrey Korchagin from St. Petersburg, Russia · Public domain
      • The monument was designed by Antonio Adamini, built by Fyodor Shestakov and unveiled on 26 August 1839 in the presence of Nicholas I.
      • The cast-iron octagonal chapel-column with a cross rises 27.5 metres.
      • The faces carry a short chronicle of the battle: the forces of both sides, the losses and the words “They retreated with honour in order to win”.
      • For the unveiling Bagration's remains were moved here from the village of Sima in Vladimir Governorate, where he died of his wounds on 12 September 1812.
      • In 1932 the monument was destroyed as “having neither historical nor artistic value”, and Bagration's crypt suffered too.
      • The monument and Bagration's tombstone were recreated in their former form in 1987.

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