Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov

He was then sent to the Jesuit college in Saint Petersburg, where he was raised (as was the fashion) alongside other sons of Russian aristocrats.

Alexander's mother Elena was then living in Florence and wanted him beside her, so he moved to Italy, where, at age 13, he was placed in a school run by the famous Swiss educator Fellenberg in Hofwyl near Bern.

Alexander stayed here for five years, perfectly mastering several foreign languages, as well as studying history and natural sciences.

At the age of 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 (see Studentenverbindung).