Description of the attraction
Museum-panorama "Battle of Borodino" includes three expositions. The main building of the currently existing museum is located on Kutuzovsky Prospekt (on the former territory of the village of Fili).
The basis of the museum is the council hut in Fili. After the fire of 1868, it was restored according to the description made before the fire. The only reliable depiction of the hut is considered to be a sketch made by the artist Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov. In the "Kutuzovskaya izba" there is an exposition telling about the military council of Russian generals, which took place in Fili on September 13, 1812 and about the Most Serene Prince MI Kutuzov.
The panorama of the Battle of Borodino was made by F. A. Roubaud and completed in 1912, to the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino and the Patriotic War of 1812. The commissioner of the grandiose painting was Emperor Nicholas II, while Myasoyedov and Kolyubakin were consultants in the creation of the work. The panorama was opened in a pavilion built for it at Chistye Prudy in 1912.
In 1918, the Borodino panorama was closed and dismantled, and it was reopened in 1962, on the 150th anniversary of the battle, in a special building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. A long-term restoration of the work was carried out by a group of artists from the central scientific restoration workshop. The head of the brigade of artists was M. F. Ivanov-Churonov. The building to accommodate the Borodino panorama was designed by architects Kuchanov, Korabelnikov, Kuzmin and engineer Avrutin.
Borodino panorama and "Kutuzovskaya hut" formed a single memorial complex associated with the events of the Patriotic War of 1812, formed near the former Poklonnaya Gora.
In December 2007, the museum opened the department "Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia". In 2006, the Moscow mayor's office made a decision to build a building to display materials collected by the Heroes Support Fund and to transfer the Museum of Heroes to the Borodino Battle Panorama Museum.
