50 Roubles A. V. Suvorov

This coin is one of a clutch of issues released by the Bank of Russia in 2000 under a broader commemorative program honoring commanders of Russian military history. Suvorov — who died in 1800 exactly two centuries before this issue — never lost a battle in a career spanning four decades and roughly sixty engagements, a record that remains unmatched in Russian military annals. His Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799, conducted against French Revolutionary forces, produced victories at the Trebbia and Novi before the disastrous crossing of the St. Gotthard Pass nearly destroyed his army through attrition and terrain rather than enemy action.