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.
GRU (G.U.)
The tenure of Sergun′s successor, Igor Korobov, was marked by what was construed by the news media as multiple high-profile failures such as the thwarted 2016 coup d'état attempt in Montenegro and the failed 2018 Salisbury poisoning, as well as an unprecedented number of disclosed GRU agents. Korobov died on 21 November 2018, "after a serious and prolonged illness", according to the official defence ministry′s statement. His death provoked speculations and unverified reports of him having fallen ill in October that year, following a harsh dressing-down from president Vladimir Putin. However, former CIA station chief Daniel Hoffman, cautioned in 2017 that some of the Russian intelligence′s recent operations that appeared to be botched might have been ″discoverable influence operations″, i.e. operations that were meant to be discovered.