Alexander Petrushevsky

Alexander Fomich Petrushevsky was a Russian lieutenant-general and a well-known biographer of Suvorov.

Life

Born in 1826, after graduating from the Noble Regiment in 1844 was promoted to warrant officer in the field artillery, enrolled in the Guards Artillery, served in the Main Artillery Directorate and finished his service as manager of the Main Hospital Committee. In 1863 he was promoted to colonel, in 1870 — to major-general, in 1879 — to lieutenant-general, between 1886 and 1887 he retired due to illness. He died in 1902.
Petrushevsky was an active member of the St. Petersburg Literacy Committee.

Works

Petrushevsky is known for his capital work Generalissimo Prince Suvorov, which was awarded by the Imperial Academy of Sciences the 1st Macarius Prize and had two editions ; for the same work the Nicholas General Staff Academy elected Petrushevsky its honorary member. This biography is based on sources that are largely manuscript and have remained unknown until then.

A supplement to this work is:

Petrushevsky's article in Russian Mind ;The significance of Suvorov for his and our time and an extract from it for popular reading under the title Stories about Suvorov.

In addition, Petrushevsky wrote a number of articles, Artillery Magazine, 1857, No. 5; On the education of lower ranks, Artillery Magazine, 1859; On the free sale of gunpowder and the provision of saltpeter, Artillery Magazine, 1868, Nos. 5 and 6, etc.) and published a number of popular and educational books for troops and people:Russian ABC for soldiers and Prescriptions for soldiers ;Stories about the old time in Russia ;Tale of Alexander Nevsky ;Stories about Peter the Great ;

and others.

For the last three works the author was twice awarded by the Literacy Committee — first prizes, and by the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of State Property — gold medals.
In 1864 Petrushevsky, together with I. S. Kuznetsov, printed, without authors' names, Good reading of Orthodox Christians, which was published in 5 editions.