Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov, Prince Italiysky, Count Rymniksky (; 13 June 1804, Saint Petersburg – 12 February 1882, Saint Petersburg), was a Russian general, diplomat and politician. Life Education His parents were Arkadi Suvorov and his wife Elena Aleksandrovna Naryshkina, making him the grandson of Alexander Suvorov. His father was drowned in 1811 when Alexander was still a child. He was then sent to the Jesuit college in Saint Petersburg, where he was raised (as was then the fashion) alongside other sons of Russian aristocrats. Three years later, due to a change in his attitude towards the Jesuits, his uncle Cyril A. Naryshkin (who had himself been taught by the Jesuits) withdrew Alexander from the school and educated him himself, inviting the best teachers. Alexander's mother Elena was then living in Florence and wanted him beside her, so he moved to Italy, where (aged 13) he was placed in a school run by the famous Swiss educator Fellenberg in Gofvil near Bern. Alexander stayed here for five years, perfectly mastering several foreign languages, as well as studying history and natural sciences. Aged 18 he left for Paris, studying at the Sorbonne, before moving on to the University of Göttingen. The long time he spent abroad as a young man undoubtedly influenced his worldview and made him familiar with intellectual movements in Western Europe - for example, while studying in Göttingen, in 1825 he joined the student associated Corps Curonia Goettingensis or Kuron VII Göttingen.