 Besides for the war dead, other monuments were put up.In Brussels, Seattle and Harbin, monuments were built to honor the executed Emperor Nicholas II while a monument was put up in Shanghai to honor Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet, and a monument to Pushkin would have been built in Paris had not a dispute arouse with the Ministry of Fine Arts over its precise location.The popularity of monuments for the war dead reflected not only sadness over the war dead, but also a way to bring together the often badly divided émigré communities shattered across Europe, Asia and North America.