 On an approximate figure of 1.5 million exiles during the Russian Civil War, about 400,000 have taken up residence in France.Political refugees, White émigré gather around charities like the Zemgor Committee and the company of the Russian Red Cross, the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (founded in 1924) and the (ACER ) (1926), which provided to their community an associative link, political and religious, as well as material aid.As a symbol of this massive immigration, 10,000 Russians are buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

The ship "Rion", carrying some 3422 refugees (Russians, Ukrainians and Cossacks) from Constantinople to Brazil has stopped in Ajaccio, on May 15, 1921 at 2 am.