The Council at Fili was a military council, which was convened on 13 September 1812 after the Battle of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia by Commander-in-Chief Mikhail Kutuzov in the villa
Painting by Alexei Kivshenko "Military Council at Fili" (1880). Officers from left to right: Kaisarov, Kutuzov, Konovnitsyn, Rayevsky, Ostermann-Tolstoy, Bennigsen, Barclay de Tolly, Uvarov, Toll, Dokturov, Ermolov.