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go. even to allow anyone to enter his stable. see that's me how his head although his greatest concern is to keep his head ona is out of harm's way if he lets me do that means he likes and trusts me. with tooling separation march. 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 and wield swords while on horseback. if you don't slouch sit up straight carry yourself better. at exams or get the chief to. spend a lifetime teaching men how to handle horses. he's one of the few to teach cossacks how to keep steady in the saddle while riding at full speed and wielding swords as well as how to do spectacular horseback stunts. my wife
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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 it. the regions of the homeland for the cossacks the true cost a few and far between even here. today cause like villages are becoming deserted with young villages moving to big cities where there are no horses or old ways of life because of both course socks and the russian don't horse breed or in need of protection. there are only about two hundred sixty mares of this breed left in the world they are on the verge of extinction. it's supposed to be good at handling a whip and assault. in the old days every cause that carried them.
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thank the french audience at the final performance and enjoyed the cossacks outstanding ability to juggle with us today this looks like a circus act but two centuries ago who couldn't pull off such feats were regarded as a failure even contact 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 that ensured russia 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 cough who came up with the idea of the march from moscow to paris. the businessman. spends all of his earnings
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on horses his main ambition is to revive the dawn breed. they are a beautiful. pavel owns a large stable and passages where he's also building a cossack settlements for tourists to go horse riding. this lovely little mare is only two years old she need to wait another three years before she can fall more of a beauty. oh look you all over poor thing. believes these horses are 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
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a division during that war so i know the hardships people went through were. the starting point for the march was must go up hill in oldest 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. go was plundered and razed to the ground. two years later russian troops led by the chieftain approached. napoleon dreaded because like a backlash he feels the russians would do to paris the friendship done to moscow. this ground one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow is almost as familiar to the
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french as it is to the russians the battlefield of. the cossacks raced 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 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 overwhelming the french on the left flank. the cossacks ahead and. he described the. fifty. he fails to achieve superiority.
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the french are confident that. russia was victorious. there were all sorts of situations but at the end of the day. 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 they hid napoleon's golden carriage people still look for it as you can see we two are trying to find it it's ours we call it the belorussian treasure belongs to the. locals have left no stone unturned in
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search of the prize even in swamps and people. 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. 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. welcome with bunches of flowers. such handsome horses. hello there. comes close on the heels of the cossacks the old people form
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a queue to buy the basic necessities of life but it's. just a few. 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 the russia with a fifty thousand strong elite but he left with only fifteen hundred. frostbitten troops. was now
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a 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. is a once in a lifetime chance i couldn't turn it down. you know the love. you know your dog. will be enough the french one nearly every battle but as the russian army increased in number it was quite apparent that the french would win by the time napoleon was retreating to poland has only had almost run out of artillery provisions and even forces. 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
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still has cost like blood in his veins. aside from being a music teacher he also leads a cause that troop in his village and teaches writing skills to local children. we 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. the story is describe a battle of nations austrian prussian and swedish troops joining the russians in
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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. recover some forty kilometers a day early in retreat it is about the same pace again leaving momentum with time. over simply lagging behind only plots of his men had skirmishes napoleon's regard. although the forest 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. yes.
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. fronts is the final leg of the journey the last stop for a final push towards napoleon's residence at fontainebleau. they've already covered almost three thousand kilometers all the way from moscow all 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.
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before his invasion of russia napoleon had made the call sites out to be monsters to scare parisians 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 it. two hundred years ago russian could hardly imagine the warm welcome that creates them now. in eight hundred twelve it was immediately evident of 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 frenchmen march side by side.
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counterpart is nicola a french businessman is. even 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. going to get rid of. the. french. in eight hundred fourteen the russians occupied paris and. to learn his fate. the cossacks were very disciplined. behaved very decently in france.
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and they was even hanged for robbing a peasant woman of. it was. neither he nor his descendants. 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. with michael. 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
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a white army. and this child in the picture is her father it was taken in one thousand nine hundred his name was. 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 at. lowick and they're off their horses in the they're from a horseback perception 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 littery nobel prize winner. and the celebrated ballet dancer rudolf.
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to. commemorate the cossacks and army officers who left russia after the nine hundred seventeen revolution. the. the. close to one million russians fled to france though many lived to ripe old ages their thoughts remained with their last homeland. there was still a 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
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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. like saying that his real job was reviving the local population. probable. 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 and this is the so-called sex water there are six 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 x. tore up the floors from french homes to burn on camp fun us. they also caught all
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the famous culp in the fontainebleau columns. the modern cossacks led by alexander decided to march along one box and dress uniform. go of my eyes. the eight hundred twelve cossacks had little time to eat and often use the russian would be 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 i've got a sense that i've been here before. maybe it's genetic memory or somebody. waiting for a lunch of oysters and because anxious about the unfamiliar dishes making vassilieva even more homesick. but let's go home as soon as i can when i get
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back i'll be brushing through just potatoes without all these fancy vegetables or detroit he always does but this cuisine isn't for me. tellers the high point of the parisien two of the traveling bills 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 the cossacks met a few russian speaking french months one point five or ten. because sex adopted many french practices off their return to russia in eight hundred fourteen women spoke to tight fitting blouses to triumph cheers 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 it was even the powers. yes i.
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think the. cossacks will be cossacks on the eiffel tower all anywhere else once kosek start to sing as just no stopping the. guy that. earth stuff all over your head i doubt that us thinks that you know oh look i think that you actually are out. for. 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 but you need to brush you pretty easy now bubble that good boy. the noble beasts will return in holes boxes. will travel with those by coach he's in high spirits because he won't be homesick for much longer
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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 i don't know whether he'll be able to get used to a new master. and finally the cossacks perform 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
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a special relationship with 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 bid farewell to fontainebleau but this they will return for another friendly invasion. of the. wealthy british stock. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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