At the crossroads of the road leading from the village of Semenovskoye to the Spaso-Borodinsky monastery and the village of Shevardino, a majestic monument rises, entitled "Grateful Russia to its defenders." This solemn inscription on the front side of the monument, facing the village of Semenovskoye, meets everyone who goes to the monastery or wants to get to the western outskirts of the Borodino field. On a powerful granite pedestal is a multi-tiered pyramid made up of artillery barrels directed upward by the muzzle. Between the tiers there are images of coats of arms of 16 cities of Russia that donated funds for the construction of this monument. The monument is crowned by the figure of St. George the Victorious in a laurel wreath - the patron saint of the Russian army. At the highest tier - the monograms of emperors Alexander and Nicholas II. And this is no coincidence. The monument was erected in 1912 according to the project of the architect Sergey Konstantinovich Rodionov, to the 100th anniversary of the battle of Borodino. In the 1920s, the monument was destroyed. This fate befell at that time many historical and cultural monuments associated with the "royal past", with Orthodoxy. The monument was recreated in 1995.
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