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'We became more Russian than we were,' says Moscow-born artist in Paris

Painter Masha Schmidt always saw herself as a citizen of the world, but the war in Ukraine has forced her to identify as Russian and to rediscover a sense of purpose in her art. Schmidt is one of around 53,000 Russians living in France, including 3,500 or so in the capital. Some are descendants of the first wave that fled the Bolshevik revolution, others arrived after WWII.