Denis Davydov is known to us as a legend, a hussar, a poet. He became in our mass consciousness the personification of that “club” of the people’s war that crushed the rear and communications of Napoleon’s “Grand Army” that invaded Russia. Everyone knows his poems and the documentary “Notes of a Partisan.” In these works, Davydov left for posterity a lively and detailed description of the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the foreign campaigns of the Russian army. The reader can familiarize himself in his notes not only with the chronicle of military operations, but also learn about the appearance and character of the commanders and emperors of the early 19th century: Alexander I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Suvorov and other great people of that time. However, few people know that General Davydov was penned belongs to the theoretical development of the organization of the partisan movement in behind enemy lines, formalized by him in the main work of his life, “An Experience in the Theory of Guerrilla Action.” This unique book has not been published in Russia since 1848 and is being republished for the first time in 200 years. As Colonel Vladimir Vasilievich Kvachkov writes in his preface, the time has come to reveal to the public the name of this Russian general, who was far ahead of his time, as a prominent military theorist and the founder of the Russian theory of special operations. Before you, reader, is a book that was 200 long years ahead of military thought. Russian Special Forces - TO BE! The publishing layout of the book has been saved in PDF A4 format.