Museum and Memorial Complex of Monastyrshchino Kulikovo Field

Commemorative dates and annual events: The festival of folk traditions "Bylina", timed to the celebration of the May Orthodox holidays (May 14), the International Museum Day (18 May), the All-Russian festival of the author's song "Kulikovo Field" (the last weekend of May), the Day of Russia on the Kulikovo field (June 12), the Day of military glory of Russia (September 21) - the Victory Day of Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo field (celembrations of the anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo).

The village of Monastyrshchyna is the place of the legendary burial of Russian soldiers who fell in the Battle of Kulikovo. The memorial complex in the village of Monastyrshchino includes the Museum of the Battle of Kulikovo (the only museum of medieval battle in Russia), the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, the Alley of Memory and Unity. The exposition of the museum “Russia’s Great Beginning” is devoted to one of the main problems of national history – the formation of statehood, the acquisition of the unity of Russia. Visitors will get acquainted with the socio-economic development of Russia before the Mongol invasion, with the Golden Horde as a highly developed cultural state, with the tactics and strategy of the medieval war, the weapons and equipment of Russian and Horde soldiers of the XIV century. The museum presents relics of the Battle of Kulikovo found at the battlefield (arrowheads and spearheads, crosses, fragments of armor, etc.). Here you can watch a film-reconstruction of the famous battle of 1380. More information about the history, life, culture, traditions of the Kulikovo field visitors can get acquainted with touch kiosks. The multimedia project “Encyclopedia of the Kulikovo Field” created by the employees of the museum-reserve is the first in the museums of Tula and the Tula region.