List feats of the famous Russian commander Alexander Suvorov is so great that rare person capable of them all remember. But about his crossing of the Alps, you heard everything. It happened in 1799, when the Russian army defeated the French troops, and it was only possible thanks to the strategic talent Suvorov.

In particular, no one imagined that such a huge army can go where the road was not in principle. Climactic battle took place in the so-called Devil's Bridge, and it was she who determined the course of subsequent battles and the victory of Russian troops. No severe weather conditions or lack of food and normal clothes did not break the spirit of the army.

According to statistics, the French army lost about 5,000 soldiers and more than a thousand were taken prisoner, the loss of the Russian military made up of 650 people. Suvorov not only brought soldiers from the environment, but brought them winners.

On the centenary of this great event in 1899, the tsarist government had asked for permission to install the Swiss monument to Generalissimo, and the most appropriate place for it felt the gorge at Devil's Bridge.

Carved into the rock stone cross is a kind of tribute to the great general, as well as the victims and survivors of this terrible battle soldiers. Currently, the monument to the rock and the road leading to it are owned by the Russian Federation.