Meet the Frenchman who became Russian nobility – and the Russian exile who charmed de Gaulle

What if the real story of France and Russia is told not by treaties – but by two men who crossed the mirror? “My life – what a novel!” Napoleon is said to have exclaimed. Two lesser-known men might have echoed that sentiment: a French-born Russian named Traversay, and a Russian-born Frenchman named Peshkov. Opposite […]