The Project
The kabarde is a Russian horse breed that has evolved over the past 2000 years in the Caucasus Mountains region.
Their qualities are the direct result of a long evolution in a difficult environment but also pure and healthy.
They have exceptionally hard hooves, excellent balance and stability in difficult terrain, exceptional endurance for both high altitude and long distances and climbing ability on difficult terrain.
They have remarkable courage and intelligence.
The project is to promote this breed which at a natural place in the equestrian endurance sport today largely owned by the Arabian horse breed '
The idea is also to make Izae have a foal, the Kabardian race being an improving breed, and a pure race to preserve.
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"Children of France When the enemy is defeated and you can freely pick flowers from this field, remember us your Russian friends and bring us flowers. "
It has been some time since we noticed a certain rewrite of history that tends to erase our ties with Russia and to erase the essential role that the country has played in the last two world conflicts, and their committment to our side.
Not to mention older historical ties, the French refugees who had fled to St. Petersburg, the Napoleonic wars, the arrival of Tsar Alexander in Paris, the Cossacks that came to Paris on Sunday and left us the word "bistro". Cossacks whose detachment of descendants recalled the memory by riding their ancestors' journey in a significant French media silence.
Recently seeing a photo of the stele of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, I was very touched by the text engraved on it, and I conceived the project of responding to the Cossacks' journey by the reverse journey that would consist in to bring to our allies the tribute of these flowers well deserved by the blood they poured to liberate France twice, in 14 and in 45.
Tribute that I would like to return, at the same time, to my grandfather, who was, at 16, the youngest Belgian soldier engaged in the First World War. What is more symbolic than wearing these flowers on horseback, on a mare Kabardian, queen of the Caucasus mountains.
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Part of the project of great importance is to embroider and carry a banner with the icon of the Mother of God of Jerusalem.
The will is to witness to the unity of Orthodoxy.
According to a pious tradition, the prototype of the icon of the Mother of God of Jerusalem was painted by the holy Apostle Luke at Gethsemane fifteen years after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. The emperor Leo the Great caused the icon to be transported to Constantinople, in order to install it in the church dedicated to the Mother of God of the Source. Later, at the time of the Emperor Heraclius, Constantinople was attacked by the Scythians, and the salvation of the city was obtained by the prayers of the Greek people before the icon of the Mother of God of Jerusalem. After this miraculous manifestation of the mercy of the Queen of Heaven, the pious emperor ordered that the holy icon be transported to the church of Blachernae, where she remained nearly three hundred years. At the beginning of the 10th century, the Russians campaigned against Constantinople and carried the icon of the Mother of God from Jerusalem to Cherson. Subsequently, after his baptism in the same city, Prince Vladimir took the icon to Kiev. Later, the inhabitants of Novgorod received the Christian faith, and the great prince sent them the icon as a blessing. She lived for more than four hundred years in St. Sophia Cathedral. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Novgorod fell into the hands of Tsar Ivan the Terrible who had the icon of Novgorod transported to Moscow, where it was deposited in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the All-Holy Mother of God. During the invasion of the French in 1812, the icon was stolen and taken to Paris. It is supposed to be today at Notre Dame Cathedral.