The Museum-panorama the Borodino Battle

The Museum-panorama “Battle of Borodino” currently includes several departments and has three expositions. The main building of the museum has an exposition telling about the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the general battle of the village of Borodino. In the Kutuzov hut, visitors can learn more about the military council of Russian generals, held in the village of Fili on September 13, 1812. The exposition of the "Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia" is devoted to the deep traditions of Russian heroism. The formation of the museum and its collections has a long and eventful history. In 1887, a wooden building, in which a museum was opened, was purposely built on the site of the burned-out Huts of the Military Council. Its exposition told about the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 and, first of all, about the Military Council in Fili, as well as about Highness prince M.I. Kutuzov. It was one of the first museums in the country dedicated to the Epoch of 1812. The building for the demonstration of a work of art created by the painter F. A. Rubo, a panorama of the Battle of Borodino, was built by decree of Emperor Nicholas II in Moscow, at Chistye Prudy, in 1912. The building was constructed according to the design of a military engineer, Colonel P.A. Vorontsov-Velyaminov. From the first days, the new institution subordinated to the military department, acted as a state museum, performing the functions of storing, studying and presenting the historical and cultural heritage associated with the memory of the central event of the war of 1812. In early 1918, the museum was closed. In 1962, the panorama of F.Rubo was restored in the central scientific and restoration workshop by a team of artists under the supervision of M.Ivanov-Churonov. A building designed by the architects A.R. Korabelnikov, S.I. Kuchanov, A.A. Kuzmin and the engineer Yu.E.Avrutin was erected specifically for its location on Kutuzovsky Avenue. The Museum of the Battle of Borodino reopened. Together with the "Kutuzovsky hut", which became part of it as a department, the panorama has become an integral part of the memorial complex that has been formed around the former Poklonnaya Hill and is associated with the events of the Patriotic War of 1812. In 2006, the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, created in 2001 by the Heroes Support Fund, was included in the Museum-Panorama Battle of Borodino. After several years of activity, the Moscow mayor’s office decided to build a new building for the Museum of Heroes and to transfer it to the Museum of Battle of Borodino.