Georgy Zhukov ("...this division [32nd] was forced to cross the arms with the enemy on the Borodino Field...").

[1] At noon on 13 October 1941, German Junkers and Messerschmitt aircraft appeared over the Borodino Field,[2] site of the climactic 1812 French-Russian clash.

[1] Borodino Field was freed by the 82nd Soviet Rifle Division during the Russian counter offensive.

Reportedly, Col. Victor Polosukhin of the Red Army, whose unit was on Borodino Field, looked in on the museum shortly before it was damaged.

He signed the visitors' guestbook and under "Purpose of Visit" wrote "I have come to defend the battlefield".