The last rites of French and Russian soldiers killed during a war fought in 1812 under Napoleon, the famous French general of the past, were performed again in Moscow.
According to the international website, the last rites of 126 people were performed on February 13 in the small western city of Vyazma.
The coffins contained the remains of three women and three young men, including 120 French and Russian soldiers. He buried the dead with full devotion and respect.
After Tafhan, he was also saluted with cannons.
They were killed during the war of 1812 and have been symbolically re-laid to these 19th-century Russian and French troops.
All of them were killed on November 3, 1812, in the Battle of Vyazma, when French military commander Napoleon Bonaparte was retreating from Moscow. This was at a time when Napoleon's army was retreating from Russia.
Russian and French archaeologists have unearthed the remains of soldiers killed in the Battle of Vyazma in a mass grave in 2019. Among them were 120 soldiers, 3 women paramedics and 3 young drummers.
The purpose of their burial was purely symbolic. When the tomb was discovered during construction, it was first thought to be a World War II mass grave.
However, the remains of the soldiers and the buttons on their uniforms revealed that they belonged to the 30th Infantry of the French Army and the 55th Infantry of the Russian Army, all of whom were killed in the Battle of Viazma.
The ceremony was also attended by Prince Joachim Morat, who belonged to the family of Napoleon's most famous marshal.
