Borodino Panorama

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  • Address
    Kutuzovsky pr 38, W of City Centre
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    148 1967
  • Transport
    underground rail: Park Pobedy or Kutuzovskaya

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Following a vicious but inconclusive battle at Borodino in August 1812, Moscow's defenders retreated along what are now Kutuzovsky prospekt and ulitsa Arbat, pursued by Napoleon's Grand Army.

Today, about 3km west of Kalininsky most and Hotel Ukraina (where Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov stopped for a war council) is the Borodino Panorama, a pavilion with a giant 360-degree painting of the Borodino battle. Standing inside this tableau of bloodshed - complete with sound effects - is a powerful way to visualise the event.

The Triumphal Arch, farther out, celebrates Napoleon's eventual defeat. It was demolished at its original site in front of the Belorusskaya Station during the 1930s and reconstructed here in a fit of post-WWII public spirit.