A memorial to the Moscow and Smolensk militias of 1812 was erected in 1970 according to the project of the Moscow architect Nikolai Ivanovich Ivanov, who did a lot to perpetuate the memory of the heroes of Borodin. According to his projects, a fragment of the parapet of Raevsky’s battery with a ditch was also restored, the middle or central Bagration’s flash was recreated, memorial signs were erected to the cavalry corps of Uvarov and Platov, gravestones were erected on the mass graves of Russian soldiers who fell in the Battle of Borodino, and much more. The trihedral memorial sign to the militias symbolizes the trihedral bayonet of a Russian soldier who was second to none in hand-to-hand combat. Already at the very beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812, militias began to form in various provinces of Russia, an irregular form of troops gathered in wartime. After the end of hostilities, the militias disbanded. The rank and file of militias was recruited from peasants and bourgeois. Went to the militia and patriotic nobles, who occupied, as a rule, leading command posts, officer posts. The Borodino battle was attended by warriors of the Moscow and Smolensk militias numbering more than 10 thousand people.
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