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      Borodino Panorama, the Arch and Poklonnaya Hill

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The round Panorama building, Beauvais's triumphal arch with the Chariot of Glory and the fountains of Victory Park. Kutuzovsky Prospekt in the footsteps of 1812.

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        🖼 Borodino Battle Panorama Museum
        Кутузовский пр-т, 38
        🎟 ticket
        A round building of 1962 with a huge panorama and a foreground display about the battle of 1812.
        Roubaud's huge canvas; we look from outside; inside is separate, another hour
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        Borodino Battle Panorama Museum
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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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        🏛 Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky
        Bove's white-stone arch with the chariot of Glory, put up in memory of the victory of 1812.
        An arch in honour of the victory over Napoleon
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        Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky
        © SmallSonMarex · CC BY 4.0
        Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky
        © Sachkv · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The arch was built in 1829–1834 to a design by Osip Bove at Tverskaya Gate, where Belorussky Station now stands.
        • A bronze plate and a handful of silver roubles of 1829 were placed in the foundation "for luck".
        • The sculptures, to Bove's drawings, were made by Ivan Vitali and Ivan Timofeev; the columns and statues are cast iron.
        • The inscription on the attic was personally approved by Nicholas I; the same text is written in Latin on the other side.
        • In 1899 Moscow's first electric tram passed under the arch.
        • In 1936 the arch was dismantled, and in 1966–1968 a copy of it, designed by Vladimir Libson, was put up on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
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        🌳 Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill
        🎟 partly ticketed · the park is free, the Victory Museum requires a ticket
        A memorial park with a 141.8 m Victory Monument, fountains and the Victory Museum.
        Fountains, an obelisk and the Victory Museum
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        Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        • The park opened on 9 May 1995, for the 50th anniversary of Victory; it covers 135 hectares.
        • The obelisk's height of 141.8 m recalls the 1,418 days of the war.
        • At the 100-metre mark of the obelisk is a bronze Nike with angels, and at its foot St George; both sculptures are by Zurab Tsereteli.
        • In September 1812 Napoleon waited on Poklonnaya Hill for the keys to the Kremlin.
        • During the park's construction in the 1990s the main hill of Poklonnaya Hill was levelled.
        • In the 1970s–1980s 194 million roubles in public donations were collected for the memorial.
        • The Church of St George in the park was consecrated on 6 May 1995.

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