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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-21Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Borodinskii voenno-istoricheskii muzei-zapovednik (Borodino, Moscow Oblast) (Muzei-zapovednik “Borodinskoe pole”)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1839 as a memorial and exhibition by veterans of the 1812 War against the Napoleonic invasion of Russia (often known in Russia as the Patriotic War), who lived in a stone lodge at the spot where General N.N. Raevskii maintained his stubborn defense in the Battle of Borodino. This lodge served as the prototype for the museum. In August 1903 the exhibits were transferred to the Borodino railroad station and the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1912 was officially opened. To mark the centennial of the Battle of Borodino in 1912 a new building was erected in place of the old lodge and shortly afterwards exhibits were transferred there from the Borodino railroad station, the Spaso-Borodinskii Monastery (Convent), and the imperial palace in the village of Borodino (built in 1839). After 1917 the museum became a branch of the Russian Historical Museum. In 1925 the museum was made independent and was given a new name—the Borodino State Museum of Military History. It then came under the authority of the Moscow Department of Public Education (Moskovskii otdel narodnogo obrazovaniia). In 1962 it was renamed the Borodino State Military History Museum-Preserve. In January 1995 the museum was added to the federal register of the most valuable monuments of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. |
