The Shevardinsky redoubt was the foremost stronghold of the Russian army, on its left flank. This is the southwestern outskirts of the Borodino field. It was here, on the orders of Kutuzov, whose army approached the village of Borodino on August 22, 1812, that fortification, closed in plan, intended for all-round defense began to be erected. With the construction of this redoubt, Kutuzov not only strengthened the position of his left flank, but also warned of the possibility of a surprise attack by Napoleon’s army advancing from the west against the main forces of the Russian army. In the center of the redoubt stands a strict granite obelisk with gun trunks and slides of cores on the sides. This is a monument to the 12th battery company of Captain Mozharov, the artillery defenders of the Shevardinsky redoubt. It was built in 1912 according to the project of the graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, architect Leonid Romanovich Sologub. In the same year, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the battle of Borodino, the redoubt itself was restored: a parapet-shaped parapet, a moat from the outside, was restored. At present, 100 years after this restoration, the parapet has significantly settled, and the moat has become shallow. This fortification keeps a memory not only of the heroes of 1812. In October 1941, the redoubt again became a stronghold, but to the Red Army soldiers of the battalion of Captain Shcherbakov, who steadfastly and courageously held the defense here in battle with the Nazi invaders. As in 1812, in 1941, St. George patronized the soldiers, captured on a bronze bas-relief of the Shevardin monument.
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