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The Borodino meteorite fell the day before the Battle of Borodino (Battle of Moscow) into the position of a Russian artillery battery near the village of Gorki. A sentry picked up the fallen stone and handed it to the battery commander, A.I. Dietrichs, an officer of the 11
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Pskov infantry regiment of Lieutenant General Kaptsevich's 7
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Infantry Division. The meteorite was kept for a long time in the Dietrichs family, and only in 1892, 80 years after its fall, was submitted to the Russian Academy of Sciences by Dietrichs' descendants.
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