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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THERE IS A SMALL TOWN OF WEINGARTEN in southern Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) to the north of Lake Constance (Bodensee) with a small wood nearby known as the Russian Forest among the locals for the last 200 years. There is a hill in its farther side with a platform on top of it reached by granite stairs. Those who go up can see a tall memorial stone some two meters high with an Orthodox cross and a dedication in Russian and German chiseled on it, "To the Suvorov Heroes." At the foothill there is another, smaller stone shaped like an Orthodox cross with the inscription in Russian and German "Suvorov's heroes are buried here. 1799."
How did Russian soldiers reach these parts? Why are about 2 thousand Russians and Austrians buried there? Why did the burials of the heroes who had performed the unrivaled Swiss march remain unknown to us?
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