Borodino (village), Mozhaysky District, Moscow Oblast
Coordinates: 55°32′N 35°49′E / 55.533°N 35.817°E
Borodino (Russian: Бородино́) is a rural locality (a village) in Mozhaysky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) west of Mozhaysk.
The village is famous as the location of the Battle of Borodino, which occurred in what is now known as the "Borodino Battlefield" (Бородинское поле). The State Borodino War and History Museum and Reserve is situated within the Borodino Battlefield. The reserved area is 109.7 square kilometers (42.4 sq mi); the area of the protected zone is 645 square kilometers (249 sq mi).
Archaeological evidence suggests the settlement of these places during the second half of the 1st millennium by Finnish, and then Slavic tribes. The well-preserved earthworks fort is of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Located near the village of Gorki represents the first time the military-historical monument of the Borodino field. However, the first written mention of the village of Borodino belong to the 17th century.
The land on which is situated the village of Borodino were attached to the Moscow principality at the beginning of the 14th century and were at porubezhnye the Lithuanian territory through which the old Smolensk road. The peasants on the land engaged in arable farming - cultivated winter rye, spring barley, oats, wheat-ledyankah, flax, hemp and buckwheat. They were assessed as "fair" and "rectly". Women, except for field work, were engaged in spinning flax and wool, weaving and knitting, "for his own use". However, their possessions often suffered "from all the vagrants and the rebels and the Poles". Many of the village after the invasion, even at the end of the 18th century were considered wastelands.
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