Why are The French Sympathetic To Russia?

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readMay 21, 2022

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France and Russia’s mutual obsession does go a long way back. Anyone who has read Leo Tolstoy’s magnum opus — War and Peace — would appreciate to a serious degree of the extent to which the Russian aristocrats in the 19th century were shaped by the French language and culture.

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible