On 21 June 2011, French Prime Minister François Fillion and Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a statue on Place du Canada in Paris, in memory of soldiers and officers of the Russian Expeditionary Force who fought on French soil between 1916 and 1918.
The bronze statue, named The Spring or Spring Brook by the sculptor, is of a Russian soldier dreaming of peace and remembering his fallen comrades as his horse drinks.
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