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.
Nikolai Cherkasov
Apollon Yachnitskiy
Mikhail Astangov
Sergey Kiligin
Vsevolod Aksyonov
Aleksandr Khanov
Georgi Kovrov
Aleksandr Antonov
Yuri Domogarov
Aleksandr Smirnov
Galina Frolova
Anatoliy Solovyov
Galina Kravchenko
Aleksandr Pelevin
Yevgeny Gurov
Vladimir Maruta
Vladimir Dorofeyev
Aleksandra Danilova
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
Fyodor Ivanov
Nikolai Arsky
Viktor Lazarev
Viktor Bubnov
Elena Vasilyeva
Pavel Volkov
Mikhail Gladysh
Karl Gurnyak
Valentina Karavayeva
Boris Livanov
Vladimir Larionov
Viktor Plotnikov
Dmitri Popov
Gleb Rozhdestvensky
Nikoloz Sanishvili