we've got the jersey covered. i am. in lines of three arms length apart word march. in the provincial french town of montrose life is taking its usual laid back course

but today the townsfolk are in for a surprise russian troops from the napoleonic wars have heard it's a great day. the likes of these men have not been seen here for the past two hundred yes it's almost as though a full parade has travelled through time bringing with it all the splendor of the pure bred horses weapons that were typical of the day. and the russian cossacks are here again marching towards paris. believe it comes from a family of cossacks and he's learned to sing the old version of the. when his horse became the journey the silly had to trail behind the procession he still believes the question of who won the battle is relevant to what 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. the excitement of paris is still a long way in the future. just beginning to get ready for the journey. and it all started here exactly one year ago. hats on. bacilli is making ready to ride his horse is called. good boy come over here for a ride now. just like a member of the family they often joke at the horses are even more dead than 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 their purebred until now. but still tamed only a short while ago refused even to allow anyone to enter his stable. his head greatest concern is to keep his head out of harm's way if he lets me do that means he likes and trusts me. with two separate. leading up to the continental journey consisted of nothing but intense training under the cossacks used to stay in summer camps to learn riding tricks and how to shoot. on horseback. don't. sit up straight carry yourself better. get the chief to. spend

a lifetime teaching men how to handle horses. he's one of the few to teach how to keep steady in the saddle riding at full speed and wielding swords as well as how to do spectacular horseback stunts. 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. the regions of the homeland for the cossacks but true cost a few and far between even here. today cost like villages are becoming deserted with young villages moving to big cities whether in no horses or old ways of life because it will both coast socks in the russian dawn horse breed or in need of

protection i would bet there are only about two hundred sixty mares of this breed left in the world they are on the verge of extinction. every cause that 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 and enjoyed 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 only school to teach these traditional equestrian skills. after a detailed analysis of his defeat napoleon noted that the cossacks had ensured russia's success he said cossacks were the best like troops of the day and if you'd

had them in his only he could have marched across the whole world. good morning cossacks greetings. it was powerful national coffer came up with the idea of the march from moscow to paris. the businessman and stud farm spend all of his earnings on horses his main ambition is to revive the dawn breed. they are a beautiful. pavel owns a large stable in passages where he's also building a cosmic settlements for tourists to go horse riding. on a book of this because of course this lovely little mare is only two years old the gratuitous need to wait another three years before she can fall on a career more of a go won't you my beauty. oh look they've been you all over poor thing thirty three democrats. 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 drunkards 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 point for the march 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 came. soon afterwards moscow was plundered and razed to the ground. two years later russian troops led by the chieftain approached. napoleon dreaded the backlash if

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 was an attack by the men of celebrated russian chieftain plus might have looked like. the russians launched an assault to gain the breathing space they needed to bring up there was. men one to alice to regroup by overwhelming the french on the left flank. the cossacks ahead and. headquarters. of russian. defense

of operations and commemorates those events. he described. as the fifty battles he fails to achieve 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. and the other patriotic place in the twentieth century. divides the car into two sections. 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 forward the french turn tail. carriage to look for it as you can see we too are trying to find 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 bogs 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 say welcome with bunches of

flowers. such handsome horse. hello there. comes close on the heels of the cossacks the old people form a queue to buy the basic necessities of life. support the order to secure. 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 napoleon. in december eight hundred twelve napoleon into russia with a fifty thousand strong elite 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 but. there's a once in a lifetime chance i couldn't turn it down. you know the love. you know you don't. see enough the french one nearly every battle but as the russian army increased in number it was quite apparent that the french would win doing by the time napoleon was retreating to poland he's only had almost run out of artillery provisions and even forces.

buzz off it's mine you've got yours finish it. unlike vassileva rennick alexei never sets 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 troop in his village and teaches caustic 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 .

like sid germany's just as legendary in europe. is in russia. 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 his men had skirmishes in the podiums 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. lived a lie then they. they did it. oh.

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such. fronts as the final leg of the journey the last stop before a final push towards napoleon's residence at fontainebleau. they've already covered almost three thousand kilometers old away from moscow these riders have followed the route that the russians took as they drove napoleon russia and then pursued him across the whole of europe. the emperors pointing at us rio the heroes.

two hundred years later russian. to the great. before his invasion of russia napoleon had made the call out to be. propaganda of the day. he went so far as to claim that a peruvian woman with her little daughter had full on her knees before the chieftain begging him not to eat it. two hundred years ago russian could hardly imagine. that creates them now. in eight hundred twelve it was immediately evident that the cossacks behave decently despite their tough and uncouth reputation. the first was noble in victory

. and rapists even released prisoners of. today. march side by side. a french businessman he's been active in russia. is diplomatic in his assessment of the. year you can 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 army. they too succeeded because. it never occurred. that one day he might see the palaces where. to reside.

in. the russians occupied paris and completely blocked napoleon where he was waiting to learn his fate. the cossacks were very disciplined. behaved very decently in front. and made the camp was even hanged for robbing a peasant woman of. it was here that napoleon signs a document of abdication neither he nor his descendants would occupy the throne again he had given up his intention to fight on until victory and the cossacks never had to storm front. though not quite historically accurate. into the grounds. here in the farewell courtyard there's a grand staircase and it was here that napoleon bade farewell to his guards. and his ambitions to create a greater france he travelled into exile under russian escort.

you off. the smoke on the memories of russia 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. and this child in the picture is her father it was taken in one thousand eight hundred his name was nikolai were to bring up that was like it's great to meet such people so far away from your homeland you. the day after the occupation of the cossacks head to the famous russian cemetery. look and they're off their horses on the they're from a horseback procession yes i heard about them they are 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. this commemorates the cossacks and army officers who left russia after the nine hundred seventeen revolution. the. to. be. 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 thought is that true russians are buried here at the russia that came after them was not there russia. or their russia is gone forever.

when russia's 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. i read a story in the next pantry magazine about a migrant talking about a year he said because i would make the rounds of local farms he was employed as a farm hand that was just a cover. he liked saying that his real job was reviving the local population because one summer with farmer will probably. with the journey reaching its aims to take a sightseeing tour of paris as it turns out the traditional habits of population revival is still very much alive. and attention yeah this is the so-called sex water. cafes and sex shops everywhere and this is the famous.

hey guys 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 i tore up the floors from french homes to burn on camp fun us. they also caught all the famous culp in the fontainebleau colonies. the model cossacks led by alexander decided to march along one must in dress uniform. no gold my eyes for. the eight hundred twelve cossacks had little time to meet and often use the russian word to be used to tell waiters of the famous mother cafe to be quick. a corrupt version of the word subsequently took linked in french culture as the archetype will be stroke cafe. there's a feeling inside me of deja vu. a sense that i've been here before. maybe it's

genetic memory or something. waiting for a lunch of oysters and the anxious about the unfamiliar dishes making. even more homesick. i'd like to go home as soon as i can when i get back i'll be brushing food just potatoes without all these fancy vegetables or detroit we always to it's but this cuisine isn't for me. the eiffel tower is the high point of the parisien two of pedaling built when their predecessors first came to the city. i've only seen it on t. even before and now here i am in paris it's fantastic a dream come true here. and right next to the eiffel tower because i met a few russian speaking french month one called five free flights and.

of course adopted many french practices off their return to russia in eight hundred fourteen women spoke to try to get in blouses to triumph were built in the cossack town of no bitch a cask that stole shaped streets were laid out in the paris model one of the how it's was even clear promise. yes no. zero. cost x. will be cossacks on the eiffel tower all anywhere else once kosek start to sing as just no stopping the. earth itself will over your head i doubt now that us think that you know oh look i think that you actually are 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 think needs

a brush you pretty easy now bubble that good boy. the noble beasts will with his. will travel with the on those by coach he's in high spirits because he won't be homesick for much longer but his joy is monitored by the prospect of pouncing with his beloved holes in his arm will still 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 and beady. i call him my little lamb sometimes. you'll be missing me too and don't know whether he'll be able to get used to a new master.

and finally the cossacks performed with their horses for the very last time before going to. displace the bloody conflict the napoleonic wars 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. for the cossacks bid farewell to fontainebleau but they will return for another friendly invasion. of the.

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