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Friends visiting the Borodino Military
Historical Museum- Preserve on a rainy day. The museum-preserve was created in
1839 to include the Rayevsky redoubt, Prince Bagration's grave and the main
part of the battlefield. In 1859 General Tochkov's widow, Margarita's house
became a museum. A new museum was built for the centenial in 1912 along with
many of the monuments . Its contents were evacuated during WWII but the
original building was destroyed. The present building was designed by V.
Voyeikov and contains a very extensive collection of original items, including
those belonging to Napoleon and Alexander, Kutuzov, Barclay de Tolly, Bagration
and others.
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