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Orthodox Chapel and Russian Cemetery, Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, Marne, France
Orthodox Chapel, designed by Albert Benois and built 1936-37, and Russian cemetery, Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The site honours the 6,100 Russian soldiers killed on French battlefields, in memory of the Franco-Russian military alliance celebrated at the visit of Czar Nicholas II to Champagne in 1896 and 1901. The chapel was built with funds from the Association du Souvenir du Corps Expeditionnaire Russe. 1,000 Russian soldiers from 2 brigades who fought on the French front in 1916-18 are buried in the adjoining cemetery. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Unique Identifier
AR9185169
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Image
Purpose
Public
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8688px × 5792px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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1930s
1937
20th century
Afternoon
Architecture
belief
building
Cemetery
Champagne-Ardenne
Chapel
color
Cross
DAY
Death
Dome
EUROPE
EUROPEAN
Exterior
Faith
FIRST WORLD WAR
France
French
graveyard
GREAT WAR
HERITAGE
HISTORIC MONUMENT
History
HORIZONTAL
IMAGE
Marne
MC
Memorial
Military
Monument Historique
onion dome
Orthodox
Outdoors
OUTSIDE
religion
Religious
REMEMBRANCE
russia
Russian
SACRED
Soldier
SOVIET
Tomb
Tsar Nicholas II
USSR
Western Europe
Western European
World War I
WORLD WAR ONE