loic and they're off their horses they're from a horseback precession yes i heard about them they were fine bunch they're here to celebrate the battle of boarded you know. many famous russian immigrants are buried here they include literary nobel prize winner. and the celebrated ballet dancer rudolf nureyev. who clearly you're too cool to 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. is that true russians are buried here. that came after them was not. is gone forever. when russia 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 a magazine about a migrant talking about. he said they would make the rounds of local farms he was employed as a farm hand that was just to cover. his real job was reviving the local population. with. a sight