Revealing the personality of the Russian commander A.V.Suvorov on the basis of archival documents, memoirs of contemporaries, iconography, objects of material culture of the 18th century. A. V. Suvorov's conflict with Emperor Paul I, Konchanskaya exile, campaigns in Italy, Switzerland. Destruction of myths about the antagonism between Potemkin and Suvorov and about the barbarism of Suvorov. Suvorov traditions in the Russian, Soviet army.