Anthropology of the Italian and Swiss Campaigns of A. Souvorov: Historiography of the Theme

Abstract

The article is a review of the works of Russian historians studying the events of the Italian and Swiss campaigns of A. V. Suvorov in the military-anthropological context. Among the numerous works on the campaign of 1799, the topic of the everyday life of soldiers is revealed only by individual authors, relying on a number of personal sources published as early as the 19th century. Other aspects of the life of Suvorov soldiers during campaigns: relations with the local population and with military personnel of other contingents, attitudes towards assigned military tasks, illnesses, women — all these topics, if they were touched upon by Russian authors, were only in passing.