The Borodino Panorama Museum (the Museum, for short) is situated in the former Fili village, now the centre of Moscow, Kutuzovsky Avenue. The Museum is the core of a memorial complex dedicated to the Napoleon's invasion of Russia of 1812 (known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812).
The complex started taking shape in the late 19th century when, in 1883, officers of the Grenadier Corps commemorated the events of 1812 by erecting a milepost from the Smolensk Road (the road along which Napoleon retreated) at the spot of the hut where a war council took place before the decisive Battle of Borodino. The hut itself dubbed the Kutuzov Hut was reconstructed in 1887 by the Society of Standard-Bearers of the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
In the year of the 100th anniversary of the war (1912), the Chapel (also served as a museum) of St. Michael was built to commemorate Field Marshal M. Golenishchev-Kutuzov.
In 1940, an obelisk was moved to the area of the complex; this obelisk was earlier situated at the Dorogomilovsky Cemetery (shut down as a result of a Moscow reconstruction project), at the communal grave of soldiers who had been wounded at the Battle of Borodino and died later.
In 1958, a bronze bust of M. Kutuzov (by the sculptor N. Tomsky) was erected in front of the Kutuzov Hut.
In 1962, the Museum was opened to the public to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Napoleon's defeat of 1812; the central exhibition of the Museum is the Borodino cyclorama (by F. Roubaud, 1912).
In 1968, the triumphal arch (by O. Bove) that earlier had been situated in Triumfalnaya Square was erected between the Poklonnaya Hill and the Museum, in Kutuzovsky Avenue. In 1973, the unified historical and memorial complex was "crowned" by the Monument to the Heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812 (by the sculptor N. Tomsky) erected in front of the Museum.
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