Experts say the task is complicated because the ashes of Russian and French soldiers were often mixed in mass graves together. Officials have also admitted that finding the remains will be difficult because two hundreds years have lapsed.
Plans for the event envisage copying Paris' famous Arc de Triomphe which houses the tomb of an unknown French soldier who died in the First World War. Moscow already has its own triumphal arch to commemorate the Russian defeat of Napoleon in 1812 but officials want to install the tomb of an unknown Russian soldier from the 1812 campaign at its base along with an eternal flame where people can lay flowers and public commemoration ceremonies can be held.
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