The True Face of A.V.Suvorov

Everyone knows A.V.Suvorov — the famous commander who never lost a single battle! However, until now there was no exact information about his appearance. A lot of his portraits were made by various artists, but only a few of them were painted during the life of the commander. It is known that Suvorov was very critical of his appearance and refused to pose for artists. An iconographic study of the Generalissimo portraits indicates that the replicated appearance is unlikely to resemble the real one. Many artists used the death mask of Alexander Suvorov during their work on a portrait; however, such images have the post-mortem signs that have not been corrected: a very wide mouth, blurred and drawn nasolabial folds, deeply sunken eyes, etc. Facial morphology specialists of the Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction of the Center for Physical Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the assistance of the artist carried out painstaking work on the correction the post-mortem changes that were reflected in the mask. This made it possible to reconstruct the real appearance of Suvorov.

A.V.Suvorov, facial reconstruction, death mask