General Suvorov
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.
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Nikolai P. Cherkasov
Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
Aleksandr Khanov
Platonych, his second-in-command
Mikhail Astangov
Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
Apollon Yachnitskiy
Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
Georgi Kovrov
Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
Vsevolod Aksyonov
Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)
Aleksandr Antonov
Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)
Sergey Kiligin
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
Yevgeni Gurov
Franz von Weyrother
Aleksandr Smirnov
Aleksey Gorchakov
Nikolai Arsky
Mikhail Miloradovich
