Guided tour to Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle

Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
Museum-panorama of Borodino Battle
 

General information

DestinationDurationCategory
Moscow, Russia2 hoursPrivate Excursion

Program details

The unique Panoramic Museum "Battle of Borodino" was opened in 1962б at the 150th anniversary of this great event. All of departments and exhibits of the museum are combined into a gigantic large-format exposition of a single event - the historical battle of 1812. An excursion to the "Borodino panorama" will become your fascinating journey to the field of the great battle.

The complex of the Museum-Panorama "Battle of Borodino" in Moscow includes: the main building - with a large-scale 15-meter painting of the Battle of Borodino; the famous "Kutuzovskaya izba" - the place of the military council before the battle; 1000 paintings of battles and portraits of its participants; almost 50 thousand exhibits from the time of the Borodino battle (weapons, equipment, ammunition, graphics, sculpture, numismatics and old books); an exhibition about the life and work of the painter F.A.Roubaud; as well as the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, recently included in the memorial complex.

There are only 60 similar panoramas in the world, 4 of them are in Russia, and "Borodino" is the largest of them in size, its length is 115 meters, and its height is 15 (about a 5-storey building). Borodino Panorama in Moscow is an excursion that will become the best type of intellectual recreation for tourists of any age.