Borodino battle museum
| Borodino battle museum-where the events of the book are reveled. Along
with the Borodino panorama (size 115x15 m), are displayed weapons, uniform of russian and
french armies, sculptures and painting.
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The Museum-panorama " the Borodino fight ", is opened in 1962. The building is constructed under the special project (architects A.R.Korabelnikov, A.A.Kuzmin, S.I.Kuchanov and engineer-designer J.E.Avrutin). Facades are decorated by two mosaic panels in the size 75 i2: " the National home guard and a fire of Moscow ", " the Victory of Russian armies and exile of Napoleon " (artist B.A.Talberg); in lateral pilonah pig-iron bas-reliefs with the image of a military armour (sculptor I.P.soar) are mounted. Before a building on a stone parapet trophy French guns are established, in 1973 M.I.Kutuzov’s monument is built. The Exposition is placed in halls - introduction, devoted to events of Domestic war 1812; "round" where battle cloths of artist F.A.Rubo are presented; panoramic (actually a panorama), and also in a hall in which the materials connected with rout of armies of Napoleon are placed. The panorama " the Borodino fight " (the size on a circle of 115 m and height 15) is created Rubo in 1910-12, was shown in wooden pavilion on Pure ponds in 1912. In a basis of a plot of a panorama - the most intense moment of the Borodino battle - storm by the Frenchmen of village Semyonovskoe at midday on August, 26th (on September, 7th) 1812. The panorama is kept owing to the works of restorers which are passed in the end of 1940th, 1962 and 1967 under direction of I.E.Grabarja, P.D.Korina, I.V.Yevstigneyev, etc. The Panorama is located near to " Kutuzovskoj a log hut " and a communal grave of 300 soldiers - participants of the Borodino battle 1812.
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