About "The love for fathers. Graves": from the history of Russian war necropolises

The article examines using the historical and comparative analysis the experience of clearing battlefields from bodies of soldiers during the Great patriotic War of 1941.1945 and the Patriotic War of 1812. The main attention is drawn to the methods of clearing Borodino field from bodies 131 of servicemen and dead horses in 1812, the experience of archaeological excavations and the search for lost individual and communal graves. The author dwells on the ideas of the outstanding architect and restorer N.I. Ivanov. A special attention is paid to the tragic destiny of the burial place of P.I. Bagration as a result of ideological campaigns of the Soviet period of the Russian history. The author makes a conclusion about the necessity of a complex solution of problems connected with keeping places of Russian military glory.