it has travelled through time bringing with it all the splendor of the pure bred horses weapons and but with typical of the day. russian cossacks are here again marching towards paris. really but it comes from a family of cossacks and he's learned to sing the old version of them. when his horse became lingering the journey vassily had to trail behind the procession he still believes the question of who won the battle is relevant. but you would say the battle ended in a draw but it was an honorable droll there's no doubt the french emerged victorious they did override the battlefield to overseas the battlefield was the victor but even if it was a victory it was a costly one. to ensure that good morning. well over. at least for.

the excitement of the grand tour of paris has still a long way in the future for the course i could just beginning to get ready for the journey. and it all started here exactly one year ago. hats on. vassily is making ready to ride his horse is called. good boy come over here for a ride down. just like a member of the family they often joke at the horses or even more dead and their wives and children. need to talk to him all the time you see he's just like a toddler he sees the world the same way. from all over the area have come to take part in the journey none of them has their own horse they haven't even seen. until now. but still. only

a short while ago. even to allow anyone to enter his stable. his head greatest concern is to keep his head out of homes away if you let me do that means he likes and trusts me. with separation. to the continental journey consisted of nothing but intense training under the us used to stay in summer camps to learn riding tricks and how to shoot. straight. the chief. has spent a lifetime teaching me how to handle horses. he's one of the few to teach how to keep steady in the saddle riding at full speed. as well as how to do spectacular horseback. my wife says to me why on earth do

you need all that talk and i explain it to a woman they don't understand it. all men are warriors at heart some more than others some don't have much of it others have quite a lot but i think i have a good deal of. the regions of the homeland for the cossacks but true cause a few and far between even here. today cause like villages are becoming deserted with young villages moving to big cities whether or no horses or old ways of life because of. the russian don't horse breed or in need of protection. there are only about two hundred sixty members of this breed left in the world they are on the verge of extinction. is supposed to be good at handling a whip and assault. in the old days every cause that carried them. thank

the french audience at the final performance in fun enjoy the cossacks outstanding ability to juggle with swords today this looks like a circus act but two centuries ago cossacks who couldn't pull off such feats were regarded as a failure even cossack women demonstrated outstanding skills. these horsemen from the kremlin riding school it's the world's only school to teach these traditional equestrian skills. after a detailed analysis of his defeat napoleon noted that the cossacks that ensured russia's success he said contacts with the best like troops of the day and if he'd had them in his army he could have marched across the whole world. good morning cossacks gratings. it was pavel marshall corfu came up with the idea

of the march from moscow to paris. the businessman and stud farm owner spends all of his earnings on horses his main ambition is to revive the dawn breed. they are beautiful. pavel owns a large stable and past as well he's also building a cossack settlements for tourists to go horse riding. this because this lovely little mare is only two years old should need to wait another three years before she can fall for more of a go won't you my beauty. oh look they've been you all over poor thing. believes these holes he's a russia's best asset and something to be proud of. it hurts when people say bad things about cossacks they may call drug lords fools layabouts all sorts there really is sad and what's worse some people even write off our most recent victories

in world war two my grandfather commanded a division during that war so i know the hardships people went through. this doesn't but for the much was must go up the hill you notice twenty twelve it was here in eighteen twelve on the second of september the napoleon waited in vain to be given the keys to the capital they never. was plundered and razed to the ground. two years later russian troops led by the chieftain platov approached. napoleon dreaded the backlash the field the russians would do to paris the friendship done to moscow. feet. this ground one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow is almost as familiar to the

french as it is to the russians the battlefield of. the cossacks race across the field where some one hundred thousand people died in a single day over forty thousand russians and nearly sixty thousand frenchmen. this is what an attack by the men of celebrated russian chieftain plus just might have looked like. the russians launched an assault to gain the breathing space they needed to bring up there was a. man one too alice to regroup by overwhelming the french on the left flank. because the heading. the headquarters. of russian. defense. and commemorates those events. he described. of his fifty battles he fails to achieve clear superiority

even the french are confident that. russia was victorious. how you look at it there were all sorts of situations but at the end of the day. patriotic place in the twentieth century. divides the cars into two sections. going to repeat the maneuvers of the russian offensive from two hundred years ago. the legend of a hasty french retreat has been passed down here from generation to generation. of children to for the french turn tail they hid in the golden carriage people still look for it as you can see we too are trying to find us it's ours we call it the

belorussian treasure belongs to the. locals have left no stone unturned in search of the prize even in swamps and peat bugs alas they have never found the golden carriage. in the local villages only a few elderly residents remain. i don't think more than a dozen young people live here. pensions only income twice a week they come to the bus stop to wait for a shop trailer this time the mobile shop is late and instead of the residents are greeted by cossacks approaching on the horizon. we sort of welcome the cossack's with bunches of flowers. such handsome horses. hello there. comes close on the heels of the cossacks the old people form

a queue to buy the basic necessities of life that gives you order to change the stopping here on their journey to paris will be the topic of many conversations for a long time to come nothing so exciting has ever happened here. such a long way to paris it might be difficult to travel on horseback there. on the fifteenth day of the journey the cossacks have made it to poland in two weeks they've covered the same distance as russian troops did during this two month long pursuit of the podium. in december eight hundred twelve napoleon into the russia with a fifty thousand strong elite tell me but he left with only fifteen hundred. frostbitten troops. was no foregone conclusion.

is more than a cossack he's also a historian and writer his latest book will tell the story of this journey is keeping a diary. in a lifetime chance i couldn't turn it down. you know the love. you know your dog. will be enough the french won nearly every battle but as the russian army increased in number it was quite apparent that the french would win doing by the time the polian was retreating to poland he's only had almost run out of artillery provisions and even exists. buzz off it's mine you've got yours finish it you i like vassileva rennick i like saying of a sense of does not hail from the dawn area even though he's from bloody mia he

still has cause that blood in his veins. aside from being a music teacher he also leads a cossack troop in his village and teaches kosek writing skills to local children. his name is when he was an unruly stallion he wouldn't let anybody into his stable but now he is quite gentle such horses except only tender treatment the horse of the dawn breed is his master's horse once you've established a bond with him he'll be devoted to you for as long as he lives he'll fight for you . likes it germany is just as legendary in europe as but i do know is in russia. oh historians describe a battle of nations austrian prussian and swedish troops joining the russians in

their fight against napoleon. around a hundred thousand died in the battle which forced napoleon to flee back to france with what remained of his army. we cover some forty kilometers a day early in retreat it is about the same pace again even momentum with time. was simply lagging behind only plots of men had skirmishes napoleon's regard. although the forests here look much as they do back home the cossacks already feel homesick they've covered more than two thousand kilometers in over a month. this journey is making me homesick. i miss my kids my wife my parents. live a life dead a. day or. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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fronts is the final leg of the journey the last stop for a final push towards napoleon's residence of funds and. they've already covered almost three thousand kilometers all the way from. these riders have followed the route that the russians took as they drove napoleon out of russia and then pursued him across the whole of europe. the emperor's pointing at us rio the hero's. attention. two hundred years later russian cossacks lay flowers at the monument to the great napoleon bonaparte. before his invasion of russia napoleon had made the cossacks out to be monsters to scamper resumes propaganda of the day painted them as bearded giants raping robbing and even eating people he went so far as to claim that

a peruvian woman with her little daughter had fall on her knees before a plot of the chieftain begging him not to eat. two hundred years ago russian cosmonauts could hardly imagine the warm welcome that greets the male. in eight hundred twelve it was immediately evident that the cossacks behave decently despite their tough and uncouth reputation xander the first was noble in victory he clamped down on my role does and rapists even released prisoners of war. today cossacks and frenchmen march side by side. vessel his counterpart is nicola a french businessman he's be. even russia. is diplomatic in his assessment of the. you're going to see anyone who finds themselves

a team two cultures has to be. both sides of their goals the french wanted to reach moscow when they did the russians wanted to hold the french advance and prevent their are. going to be related. to reside. in eight hundred fourteen the russians occupied paris and. to learn his fate. the cossacks were very disciplined. behaved very decently in france. was even hanged for robbing a peasant woman of. neither he nor his descendants would occupy the throne again he had given up his intention

to fight until victory and never. quite historically accurate. into the grounds. there's a grand staircase and it was him. and his ambitions to create a greater france he travelled into exile under russian. returns to france just a hundred years later when many emigrated seeking refuge from the bolshevik revolution. this woman says her grandfather came to france with a white army. there is a cost and this child in the picture is her father it was taken in one thousand nine hundred his name was nicholai were cheaper yet it was like it's great to meet such people so far away from your homeland that if you knew.

the day after the occupation of the cossacks head to the famous russian cemetery at century genevieve. loic and their off their horses there from a horseback perception yes i heard about them they were fine bunch they're here to celebrate the battle of. many famous russian immigrants are buried here they include literary nobel prize winner. and the celebrated ballet dancer rudolf nuria . clear your do. you do this all in monuments commemorates the cossacks and army officers who left russia after the nine hundred seventeen revolution.

the. close to one million russians fled to france though many lived to ripe old ages their thoughts remained with their lost homeland. they were still the depressing thoughts is that true russians are buried here at the russia that came after them was not their russia or at all. or their russia is gone forever because the stone the awfulness of. when russia was white came to france the country was still in ruins reeling from the devastation wrought by world war one in which over a million frenchmen died. because of a pretty picture of them i read a story in the next pantry of magazine about a migrant talking about a. he said the course would make the rounds of local phone he was employed as a farm hand that was just to cover. his real job was reviving the local

population. with. the take a sightseeing tour of paris as it turns out the traditional habits of population revival still very much alive. i know. this is the so-called sex. and sex shops everywhere. famous. let's get off here. two hundred years ago when the russians took paris not a single painting went missing from the roof though it's true that some cause the floors from french. quarter famous culp in the fontainebleau columns. in dress uniform.

the eight hundred twelve had little time to meet and often use the russian to tell the famous cafe to be quick. a corrupt version of the word subsequently took linked in french culture as the bistro cafe. there's a feeling inside me of days. that i've been here before. maybe it's genetic memory or something. waiting for a lunch of oyster. anxious about the dishes making. even more homesick. but let's go home as soon as i can when i get back i'll be rushing through just potatoes without all these fancy vegetables. no i did like the always students but this cuisine isn't for me. the eiffel tower is the high point of the prison until pedaling built when the census first came to the city

because i've only seen it on t.v. before and now here i am in paris it's fantastic a dream come true. and right next to the eiffel tower the cossacks met a few russian speaking french month one called five foot ten. because sex adopted many french practices off their return to russia in eight hundred fourteen women spoke to tight fitting blouses to triumph launches were built in the coastal town of no bitch a cask that stole shaped streets were laid out in the paris model one of the how mitts was even close to ours. oh no oh yes no. clothes. cossacks will be cossacks on the eiffel tower all anywhere else

once kosek start to sing as just no stopping the. earth all over stuff all over your head i don't doubt that up things are you know like i think you know your shit out. of. the journey has come to an end alexei never said seth green is his horse for the last time before setting off home . let me have your leg what you need to brush your easy now bubble. for that good boy. the noble beast boxes. will travel with the others by coach he's in high spirits because he won't be homesick for much longer but his joy is modded by the prospect of passing with his beloved holes in the world's ills i'm so attached to him i can't bear the thought that will have to eventually part with him he's very tender and beady and.

i call him my little lamb sometimes. he'll be missing me too and don't know whether he'll be able to get used to a new master. and finally because x. performed with their horses for the very last time before going to. displace the bloody conflict the napoleonic walls brought france and russia closer together the soviet union had a special relationship of france despite being a member of nato the. today hundreds of thousands of cars that descendents still live in france and many frenchmen stayed on russia. the cossacks

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