Why the personal life of the great Generalissimo Suvorov did not develop, and How did his strange marriage end

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

We know Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov as a great, invincible commander who owns a large number of victories of the Russian army. At the mention of his name, people said with admiration: "This is a great warrior." But fate decreed that this respected person constantly lost fights in love. Why did this happen? Read in the material about how his father married Suvorov, how his family life developed and how this strange marriage ended.

How the father married an ugly groom

Suvorov was the smartest man who possessed an analytical mind and encyclopedic knowledge. At the same time, contemporaries argued that outwardly he was not an attractive man: small stature, thinness, stoop and lameness due to wounds in the war. The commander did not look like an enviable groom. The stately officers overshadowed him with their external data. Therefore, Suvorov did not even think about getting married, besides, he was constantly busy in long military campaigns.

However, the military's father thought differently. He was worried that the Suvorov family would end and could not allow this. When the son was forty-three years old, the father decided to take matters into his own hands and began to actively look for a bride for his son. And the party was found. It was Princess Varvara Prozorovskaya. The twenty-three-year-old girl, the daughter of a retired general, Prince Ivan Prozorovsky, was extremely spoiled and distinguished by her magnificent forms and a healthy blush.

The couple, unfortunately, looked very ridiculous. Despite this, the parents happily blessed the young, and in December 1773 they were engaged. Then the bride and groom were betrothed, and a month later, in the church of Fyodor Studit, who was in Moscow, the wedding of Suvorov and Varvara took place.

Happy years of marriage and further discord due to different worldviews

Yes, the marriage was essentially lightning fast. After her, the young settled under one roof, and the hard time of learning came. Suvorov was a very devout man. He perceived the situation as the will of the Lord, and later even began to have deep feelings for his wife.

The wife was the opposite of Alexander. Unfortunately, she had a limited mind, and she received a very poor education. Varvara did not know how to maintain a conversation, nagged her husband, calling him a miser. She herself was used to throwing money left and right. Suvorov, in turn, was thrifty and did not recognize luxury. Despite this, for the first two years he considered his marriage “an unexpected prosperity. And when his daughter Natalia was born, whom Alexander called "Suvorochka", the newly-born father was just happy.

Time passed, misunderstanding grew and gradually reached enormous proportions. Barbara was not interested in her husband's military victories, she constantly complained and cursed her fate as the officer's wife. All she wanted was endless balls and flirting with men. But in fact, I had to wander from garrison to garrison. The woman was angry at the unsettled life, she had two miscarriages. Varvara was treated for a fever for a long time. Suvorov, on the other hand, was engaged in military craft, and did not pay too much attention to his wife.

How Suvorov's wife betrayed him and refusal to divorce

So, Varvara did not want to wait and decided that she would look for a replacement for her inattentive husband. It should be noted that the moral foundations of this woman were very shaky. Soon she found solace in the arms of the young dragoon Nikolai Suvorov, who was the generalissimo's relative - grand-nephew.

Having learned about such a mean act of two close people, and that the betrayal lasted long enough, the Generalissimo immediately turned to the Spiritual consistory, submitting a petition for divorce.

But at that time, Catherine II was in power. Free, riotous behavior of representatives of the high society was considered commonplace. The empress began to find out why Suvorov decided to divorce, and when she understood the reason, she immediately summoned him to an appointment. Nobody knows what they were talking about. But as a result, in January 1780, the commander was reunited with his unfaithful wife, and in February they went together to Astrakhan, to Suvorov's new duty station. In the same place, in Astrakhan, in the St. George Church, a church reconciliation ceremony was held, and the couple began their life together again.

Suvorov's escape from the family home

But the quiet life did not last long. Suvorov enjoyed his newfound happiness, his wife became pregnant, everything seemed solid and joyful. However, when several months remained before the birth of his son, Alexander learned that his Varenka was cheating on him with Major Syrokhnev.

It was a terrible blow. Such Suvorov could not forgive. He again filed for divorce, but was not granted. Frustrated and depressed, Alexander leaves the family nest, having previously returned everything given to Varvara's father and appointed his wife a meager annual allowance. Suvorov tried to forget the unsuccessful marriage. But he always talked with children, and Varvara always made demands on her content, begging for money. Daughter Natalia Suvorov loved madly. When the girl was nine years old, he sent her to the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens. The father had a great influence on the daughter, and she stopped communicating with her mother. As for the son of Arkady, Suvorov did not immediately recognize paternity. This took twelve years. The commander's son lived with his mother, who in old age was left completely alone.

The field marshal no longer attempted to connect his life with a woman. The commander took the relationship, the sacred bonds of marriage too seriously, and was afraid that the chosen one would not be able to remain faithful, just like the first wife of Barbara. Until the end of his life, Alexander Vasilyevich remained lonely.

The personality of the generalissimo was very bright. He did not eat dinner, and at the ball he punished Potemkin himself.