Inside was a one-legged skeleton, later confirmed by DNA testing on several of his descendants to be General Gudin’s. Malinowski’s team found a rotten wooden coffin under the foundations of a Smolensk nightclub. “When we heard about the case, we had questions,” said Sylvie Bermann, the French ambassador to Russia from 2017 to 2019, noting that the Kremlin had long promoted French far-right figures serving its interests. Malinowski initiated the search for the general’s remains in the spring of 2019, French diplomats were apprehensive. Peskov’s daughter, Elizaveta Peskova, is the foundation’s vice president. Malinowski inaugurated the Moscow-based Foundation for the Development of Russian-French Historical Initiatives in the presence of Dmitri S.
In May 2018, he was invited to celebrate Mr.
