Русская Ницца

There is an opinion that the first Russians appeared on the Cote d'Azur of France "a little earlier than the French, but a little later than the Romans." It was the Russians who made then unremarkable Nice the “capital” of the French Riviera, famous throughout the world.

We owe the fashion for everything Russian on the Cote d'Azur to the Dowager Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, who once bought an estate here for a string of pearls. The Russian spirit still hovers in the famous villa "Kazbek", on Alexander III Boulevard, in the Orthodox Church with double-headed eagles, where descendants of emigrants who have never seen Russia, but speak correct Russian, still rush.