Gallipoli Cross depicted on the grave of Russian military officers Petr Bozhkevich (1895-1973) and Igor Dodonov (1906-1979) at the Russian Cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Cimetière russe de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) near Paris, France. In November 1920, after the defeat in the Russian Civil War the Russian White Army of General Wrangel was evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. Russian soldiers and their families spent there one year as refugees before they were allowed to move to European countries. The Gallipoli Cross was a Russian military decoration created to comm
Gallipoli Cross depicted on the grave of Russian military officers Petr Bozhkevich (1895-1973) and Igor Dodonov (1906-1979) at the Russian Cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Cimetière russe de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) near Paris, France. In November 1920, after the defeat in the Russian Civil War the Russian White Army of General Wrangel was evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. Russian soldiers and their families spent there one year as refugees before they were allowed to move to European countries. The Gallipoli Cross was a Russian military decoration created to commemorate the soldiers, who stayed in Gallipoli.
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