ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
People who have greatly helped our project:
Filippo Lombardi - the Member of the Council of States of Switzerland from the Canton of Ticino, co-Chair of the Swiss-Russian Friendship Group
Oliver Schürch - the Head of Traffic Police force in the Canton of Uri
Roland Leuenberger – the President of "Suworow Verein"
Eugene Pankevich - Chairman of the Committee for Tourism Development of St. Petersburg
Andrey Matsarin – official of the Committee for Tourism Development of St. Petersburg
Alexander Reichrudel (Germany)
Maria Krishat – Swiss tour guide and expert on the history of the Suvorov’s Swiss Campaign
Fleur Stampanoni-Dedyulina - a public figure doing business in both Russia and Switzerland
Alla Ramilova – Counsel to the President of the Swiss Parliament for Russia and the CIS
Marcel Jann – the member of the police force in the canton of Uri
Damian Zingg – historian, director of Sasso San Gottardo Museum
Adrian Regli – a farmer from Andermatt
Kaspar Trumpi – the owner of Gasthaus Richisau in the canton of Glarus
Ute Albertin – official of the municipality of Glarus
Leo Meier (Shwanden, Switzerland)
Yvonne Wezel – employee of ‘Glarus –Tourism’
Arnold Spescha – a historian from Pigniu, Graubünden, Switzerland,
Hubertus Spescha – a farmer from Pigniu, Graubünden, Switzerland
Marina Vasilieva - Director of the Suvorov Estate-Museum in the village of Konchanskoye-Suvorovskoye
Dmitry Korovkin – history expert
Gregory Avdeev
People who manufactured our uniform kits and equipment:
- Ivan Sorokin - chief expert in uniforms tailoring, coats’ tailor
- Dmitry Lobanov – organizer of shoemaking
- Pavel Zhuravlev
- Alexander Litvinov
- Sergey Minchenkov
- Dmitry Alekseev - manufacturing of belts and pouches
- Maxim Tikhonov - knapsack maker
- Eugene Gaponov - manufacturing of belts, shoulder-belts and cartridge pouches
- Alexander Sidorov - shoemaker
- Michael Knopf - shoemaker
- Sergey Karasev - tinsmith
- Alexander Siveev - haversack / bread bags maker
- Polina Siveeva – shirt’s tailor
- Alexander Trofimov - tailoring of camisoles, chakchirs, feed caps and gaiters
- Anna Popova
- Alexandra Ryabtseva - greatcoat and cloak’s tailor
- Kirill and Ivan Nagorny - makers of metal fittings
- Michael Makarov - tinsmith
- Tatiana Taraskina
- Natalia Krivtsova - tassel maker
- Anna Muzalevskaya - help with paperwork
We also would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to the following people:
• Olga Kalashnikova who believed in us, helped with invaluable advice and was capturing us on her magic camera
• Julia Ilyina who kept finding us in all impossible places and providing help and media support
• Mikhail Presnuhin who supported us, despite our peculiarities
• Konstantin Yezhov who helped us at all stages of the project
• Livio Lombardi who treated us to a hearty dinner on a rainy Saint Gottard Pass
• Kaspar Rhyner-Sturm, the owner and keeper of the Suwarow Haus in Elm who welcomed us at his home and was truly worried about our safe passage over the Panix Pass
• Tatiana Kobelt who helped us finding campgrounds in the canton of Glarus
• Walter Gähler who marched with us from Klöntalersee to Schwanden and invited us to visit and enjoy his super-excellent Suworow Museum in Linthal, Schweiz
• Kurt Issenegger who is always ready to help and enjoy a good conversation, as well as to his friend - Alexey
• Werner Stucki, the owner of Carrera camping site who is fond of mountain hiking
• Anke Schorr who helped us finding shelter near Andermatt
• Markus Langenegger who organized and made our unforgettable battle at Muotathal Valley possible
• Kaspar and Claudia Marti who treated us to drinks and the most beautiful view at Klöntalersee (Claudia also took some beautiful pictures and published an excellent article at the time of our march)
• Bruno Russi, Swiss military attaché in Russia who gave us very apt and practical counselling on organizing the project
• Alexandra Kozlova, who kept inspiring us to go forward, carry on and do not give up
• as well as numerous Swiss locals who treated us to milk, tea and coffee and cheered us up all the way through the march!
Organisations
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Interregional Public Foundation for the revival and protection of the Russian culture "Derzhava"
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Sixth Jager Regiment re-enactor’s club
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Leib-Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, 1709 reenactor’s club
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Historical and educational project "Vsegda"
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Association of historical clubs "Ratnik" (St. Petersburg)
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Studio of European historical and scenic fencing "Silhouette"
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Military History online journal
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Les Voltigeurs du 3ème Régiment Suisse 1806 re-enactor’s club
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Markatek transport company
Media partners
- The State Russian Museum
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Regnum News Agency
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7 Summits Club, travel agency
- Wild Russia, Travel agency
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SUISSEPIC, Social Project about Switzerland
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Lemanica, lyceum
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Russian Lira, Publishing center