Stories About Suvorov

2 hrs. 41 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Sergey Petrovich Alekseyev

Narrator Larisa Yurova

Description

From childhood, Suvorov dreamed of becoming a soldier. Yet he was a weak and sickly boy. “Well where would you be a soldier! — his father laughed at him. — You can’t even lift a rifle!” Those words upset Suvorov. He decided to harden himself.

Winter cold would come: everyone would wrap up in warm coats or not leave the house at all, and little Suvorov would throw on a light jacket and spend the whole day outside. Spring would arrive. Rivers would start to break up, and no one even thought of swimming—yet Suvorov would jump straight into the icy water. Now neither heat nor cold frightened him. The boy walked a lot and learned to ride well. Suvorov got what he wanted. He grew stronger and soon entered military service.

Suvorov lived for seventy years. More than fifty of them he spent in the army. He began his service as a simple soldier. He ended it as a field marshal and generalissimo.

Suvorov fought thirty-five major battles and engagements. In each of them he was the winner.

These stories will tell you about the glorious victories of the great Russian commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and the heroism of Russian soldiers.

Contents:

Chapter One Everyone Knows This Everywhere

A Package
“Beating, not counting”
Turtukai
Suvorov stood in Kinburn
The Fokshani battle
The Great Vizier
Izmail
Mishka
Audacity
“Killed near Fokshani”
“Where has it been seen…?”
The Turkish standard
The Russian soldier
First
A Medal
The Crossing
A Dispute
Little sticks
Soup and porridge
A parent’s greatcoat
Bridges
Lure
Front and back
“I’ll carry my own head”
Talker
“How are things in Paris?”
Everyone Knows This Everywhere
Glory

Chapter Two Get Used to Unstinting Activity

Proshka
“A smell-giver”
A true soldier
Boots
The monastery walls
In a Suvorov way
A hospital
At the Sestroretsk factory
Rtiščev—Umiščev
An enemy
Keep away!
A gentleman
Brides
Skates
A drifter
How do things live for people in masters’ houses?
School
Bayonet
A fur coat
About food and boastful landlords
“Powder is not gunpowder…”
Suvorochka
Nikolayev

Chapter Three The Last Campaign

Alpine mountains
Soldiers march, conversation goes on
A cloud
The devil’s bridge
A general’s plume
Captain Smelyi’s company
New shoes
Lard
“I see!”
“Let me suffer a bit…”
Generals—general