In 1922 for financial reasons it relocated its base of operations from Paris to Monte Carlo .
The company 's ambivalent and attenuated connection to Russia had not survived the 1914 -- 1918 war , the 1917 revolutions , and the civil war .
In 1922 for financial reasons Russia relocated Russia 's base of operations from Paris to Monte Carlo .
The company 's ambivalent and attenuated connection to Russia had not survived the 1914 -- 1918 war , the 1917 revolutions , and the civil war .