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he sees just like a toddler he sees the world the same way. 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 tamed only a short while ago refused even to allow anyone to enter his stable. to see that 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 doing separate. leading up to the continental journey consisted of nothing but intense training under the. riding tricks and how to shoot. on horseback. if you don't. sit up straight carry yourself better.
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the chief. has spent 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. 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 of. the regions of the homeland for the cossacks but true cossacks 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
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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 a sort. of every cause that carried them. thank the french audience at the final performance in fontainebleau and joined 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 success he said contacts with the best like troops of the day and if he'd
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had them in his army he could have marched across the whole world is. that old as you are good morning cossacks gratings. it was pavel marshall cough who 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. despicable 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 what would you my beauty. well look they've been you all over poor thing.
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believes these holes is 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 to report 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. the starting point 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 came. soon afterwards moscow was plundered and razed to the ground. two years later russian troops led by the coast like chieftain cloth of approached. napoleon dreaded the backlash the feel of the
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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 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 was an attack by the men of celebrated russian chieftain plucked off 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.
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he described the. fifty. he fails to achieve superiority even the french are confident that. russia was victorious. there were all sorts of situations but at the end of the day. took place in the twentieth century. divide the platoon into two sections. again to repeat the maneuvers of the russian offensive from two hundred years ago. the legend of
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a hasty french retreat has been passed down here from generation to generation. still come 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 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 people 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 cossacks with bunches of flowers. such handsome horses that hello there.
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is. a mobile shop 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 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
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long pursuit of the podiums. 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. is a once in a lifetime chance i couldn't turn it down. you know the love. me 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 his own had almost run out of artillery provisions and
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even forces. 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 like blood in his veins. aside from being a music teacher he also leads a 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 .
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like sid germany is just as legendary in europe as but i do know is in russia. the story which 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 poland'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
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a month. this journey is making me homesick. i miss my kids my wife my parents. yes. well. yes offers an air show and an issue museum what's the matter you. most of the residents never profit from the performances you don't see him coming all the signature there when you look up and there's one. alpha beta gamma he's. the find. out there know what's going on. right now. shells become income
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lumber tourny was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only. france 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 away from moscow. 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.
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of. two hundred years later russian cossacks lay flowers at the monument to the great napoleon bonaparte. the foreigners invasion of russia. made the. propaganda of the day. people. to claim that a woman with her little daughter had fall on her knees before the chieftain begging him not to eat it. two hundred years ago russian could hardly imagine. that creates them.
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in eight hundred twelve it was immediately evident that the cossacks behave decently despite their tough 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. good 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 army. the two succeeded.
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to reside. in eight hundred fourteen the russians occupied paris and. he was waiting to learn his fate. the cossacks were very disciplined. behaved very decently and. fronts in one instance i made the camp was even hanged for robbing a peasant woman of. it was here that napoleon signed the 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 fontainebleau. do 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.
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and his ambitions to create a greater france he travelled into exile under russian escort. there was. this image on the memories of russia returns to france just a hundred years later when many emigrated seeking refuge from the bolshevik revolution. i did 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 which you 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 at . lowick and they're off their horses in the they're from a horseback procession yes i heard about them they are fine bunch they're here to
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celebrate the battle of. many famous russian immigrants are buried here they include literary nobel prize winner. and the celebrated ballet dancer rudolf nuria . to. this commemorates the cossacks and army officers who left russia after the nine hundred seventeen revolution. to. be. 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
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after them was not their 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 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 probable. with the journey reaching its aims to take a sightseeing tour of paris as it turns out the traditional habits of population revival still very much alive in my attention yeah this is the so-called
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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 acts tore up the floors from french homes to burn on camp fun us. they also caught all the famous culp in the fontainebleau columns. cossacks led by alexander and decided to march along one mux in dress uniform. gold my eyes. the eight hundred twelve cossacks had little time to meet and often use the russian word a beast or a to tell the famous my mother kathy to be quick. a corrupt version of the word subsequently took linked in french culture as the archetype will be stroke cafe.
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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 something. waiting for a lunch of oysters and the anxious about the unfamiliar dishes making. even more homesick. but let's 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 the worst is this cuisine isn't for me. is the high point of the parisien two of peddling built when the 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. and right next to the eiffel tower the cossacks met a few russian speaking french money one point five prefix and.
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because x. adopted many french practices off their return to russia in eight hundred fourteen women spill two point fifteen blouses to triumph were built in the coastal town of no bitch a cask it stole shaped streets were laid out in the paris model one of the how it's was even the powers. yes. of. course 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 that us think that you out of. a half of it out. the journey has come to an end alexei never said seth brings his horse for the last
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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 with holes boxes. will travel with 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 posing 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. kills or i call him my little lamb sometimes. he'll be missing me too i don't know whether he'll be able to get used to a new master.
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and finally the cossacks perform with their horses for the very last time before going to. displace the bloody conflicts the napoleonic wars brought france and russia closer together the soviet union had 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 they will return for another friendly invasion. the.
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the gold fever. turned thousands into slaves to much problems but also among others involved in the monsoon and since i started working in amman i stayed here to look at it. to nationals. cash cow to be milked dry a mistake i think that in this country is gold medal logie as an environmental cost
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which is unacceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace . most books most but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups watch for prices colombia going to pay. the modest effect on our t.v. .
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