his brother-in-law, Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, Nicholas and his wife took up residence in a small chateau at Choigny, 20 miles outside of Paris. He was under the protection of the French secret police as well as by a small number of faithful Cossack retainers. He became the symbolic figurehead of an anti-Soviet Russian monarchist movement, after assuming on 16 November 1924 the supreme command of all Russian forces in exile and thus of the Russian All-Military Union, which had been founded in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by Gen Pyotr Wrangel two months prior. The monarchists made plans to send agents into Russia. Conversely a top priority of the Soviet secret police was to penetrate this monarchist organization and to kidnap Nicholas. They were successful in the former, infiltrating the group with spies. (OGPU later lured the anti-Bolshevik British master spy Sidney Reilly back to the Soviet Union (1925) where he was killed.) They did not succeed however, in kidnapping Nicholas. As late as June 1927, the monarchists were able to set off a bomb at the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Grand Duke Nicholas died on 5 January 1929 of natural causes on the French Riviera, where he had gone to escape the rigors of winter. He was originally buried in the church of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Cannes, France. In 2014 Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922–2014) and Prince Dimitri Romanov (1926-2016) requested the transfer of his remains. The bodies of Nicholas Nikolaevich and his wife were re-buried in Moscow at the World War I memorial military cemetery in May 2015. Honours and awards The Grand Duke received several Russian and foreign decorations: Russian Knight 4th Class of the Order of St. George - 1877 Knight 3rd Class of the Order of St. George - 1914 Knight 2nd Class of the Order of St. George - 1915 Knight of the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-called - 1856 Knight of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky - 1856 Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Anna - 1856 Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Stanislaus - 1856 Knight of the Imperial Order of the White Eagle - 1856 Knight 1st Class of the Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir - 1896 Foreign Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (Kingdom of Italy) - 18 June