Russian Russian Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe Metropolitan Nestor of Korsun and Western Europe on April 18, 2024 visited the mass grave of Russian soldiers participating in the First World War at the Montmorency Municipal Cemetery (Paris region, France), where he consecrated an updated chapel built in memory of Russian soldiers who died while performing allied duty on the battlefields in France.
The consecration of the chapel was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation A.Y. Meshkov, employees of the Russian diplomatic mission, clerics of the Korsun Diocese and members of the Russian Memory Society.
The chapel was restored this year by the forces of the Embassy of the Russian Federation. According to A.Y. Meshkov, 374 people were buried at the site, which makes this burial one of the largest Russian necropolises in the West.
Montmorency also housed a Russian old man's house, intended mainly for the military; emigrants from Russia who migrated after the 1917 revolution also lived in the city itself, many of them subsequently found their last refuge in the cemetery in Montmorency.