Jean-Michel Cosnuau is a pure Gaul from Le Mans. He was early bewitched, from the end of the Yeltsin years, by the crazy madness of post-Soviet chaos.

He shaped with others, many others, this legendary "Russian night", investing in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and bringing his "French touch" He played for twenty years the impresarios of a Slavic party filled with vodka, drugs, women of murderous beauty. At regular intervals he retired to a monastery in the company of a starets.