Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. On this fragment you can see the French artillerymen taking the new position.

Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. Marshal Murat and his chief of staff are watching the cavalry of the Corps of General Latour-Mobourg committing to action.

Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. On this fragment you see Russian cuirassiers rushing to the attack and General Borozdin in the foreground.

Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. The Saxon artillery crew with their cannon is crossing over the Semenovsky creek.

Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. On this fragment you see the Saxon cuirassiers attacking the Northern part of the Semenovskaya village, and behind them there are the Polish uhlans of General Rozhnecsky.

Detail of the Borodino Battle Panorama. Here you can see the Russian cuirassiers counter-attacking the Saxon cavalry.

The very hard and long work on the panorama undermined Roubaud's health much, he wrote after finishing this work : "I'm so tired and weak that now I could hardly arrive to Moscow".

After opening the Panorama Roubaud feft for Munich where his family lived for rest and treatment. And there in Munich he was found with the First World War. He could not work in full power far from his motherland. Russia was for him as the ground for Antheus, he took the themes inspiring him for new works and giving him more creative powers in the heroical history of Russia.

And the October revolution happened in Russia in 1917 and he still stayed in Munich and did not return to Russia ever. Franz Alexeevich Roubaud died in Munich in 1928. Roubaud left the mankind his very rich heritage: a lot of sketches, about two hundreds of battle and other paintings and three big panoramas of battles.

His last panorama of the Borodino battle , the top of his art and talent became a monument to the heroes of the Borodino battle, a symbol of deep gratitute of descendants to the heroic deeds of ancestors that could defend the independence and honour of their motherland.