Anting Friedrich (Anthing)

(died 1805), author of the first biography of Suvorov. A native of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, entered the Russian military service, was aide to Suvorov 1796. With the assistance of the Marshal A. collected material on his life from a young age, and described her to the taking of Warsaw. Composition A. published under the title "Versuch einer Kriegsgeschichte Suworoffs". Author poorly coped with its task, made a few mistakes and gave a rather rambling and colorless description of the campaigns and battles. Unless, . as the product of an eyewitness, . his book generated considerable interest and was soon translated into French, . English and Russian languages, . at last - under the title "Life and military acts Generalissimo, . Prince of Italy, . Count Suvorov-Rymniksky (St. Petersburg, . 1804).,