Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1920, Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna née Schedrimo. The family finally settled in Paris in 1922, reuniting with his first wife and children. Prokudin-Gorsky set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children, naming it after his fourth child, Elka. In the 1930s, the elderly Prokudin-Gorsky continued with lectures showing his photographs of Russia to young Russians in France, but stopped commercial work and left the studio to his children, who named it Gorsky Frères. He died in Paris on September 27, 1944, a month after the Liberation of Paris. He is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
Michel Garder
Michel Garder (20 October 1916 – 3 May 1993) was a French author and military man who predicted in 1965 that the Soviet Union would collapse by 1970. He made this prediction in his book "L'Agonie du Regime en Russie Sovietique" ("The Death Struggle of the Regime in Soviet Russia").