page_title: Russian Expeditionary Force in France
section_title: Monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Russian Expeditionary Force in France / Monuments
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Monument du corps expéditionnaire russe, inauguré le 21 juin 2011 par François Fillon et Vladimir Poutine, à l'angle de la place du Canada et du cours la Reine à Paris, le long de la Seine.
context_page_description: The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire. In 1915 the French requested that Russian troops be sent to fight alongside their own army on the Western Front. Initially they asked for 300,000 men, an unrealistically high figure, probably based on assumptions about Russia's 'unlimited' reserves. General Mikhail Alekseev, the Imperial Chief of Staff, was opposed to sending any Russian troops, although Nicholas II finally agreed to send a unit of brigade strength. The First Russian Special Brigade finally landed at Marseille in April 1916. A Second Special Brigade was also sent to serve alongside other Allied formations on the Salonika Front in northern Greece. In France, the First Brigade participated in the Nivelle Offensive, however with news of the Russian Revolution of 1917 affecting the demoralisation within the French Army following the failure of that offensive, the 1st and 3rd Brigades participated in the wave of mutinies spreading across France. The First Brigade was finally disbanded before the end of the year.
context_section_description: The following monuments have been dedicated to the memory of the Russian Expeditionary Force:
  on June 21 2011 a Russian Expeditionary Force Monument was dedicated, in Paris;
  in the Marne a monument at the Fort de la Pompelle on September 4 2010, at the Russian cemetery of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand. This is an ensemble memorial compromising a chapel and a column;
  on June 12 2011 a monument at Courcy commemorating all the sacrifices of the Russian brigades on the Western front.
  a column dedicated in 2012 at the cemetery of La Courtine. The column is in memory of the mutineers of the summer of 1917, and proclaims in Russian  « à bas la guerre » (долой войну!). The Lacourtine 1917 Association is dedicated to that memory;
  on July 15 2016 a Russian Expeditionary Force monument was dedicated at Brest in France in the place of général de Gaulle,;
  on May 12 2016 at Marseille, the Consulate of the Russian Federation in France dedicated a plaque commemorating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the 1st Special Brigade of the Russian Expeditionary Corps formed in Moscow and Samara.
  There are also two Imperial Russian war graves in the Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery, near Cambrai.
caption: Monument to the Russian Expeditionary Force in Paris.
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