Incomparably less has been said and written about Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky than about other famous commanders, although the scale of his personality and deeds is in no way inferior to them, and even surpasses many. Of his 82 years of life, more than 60 A.M. Vasilevsky gave military service and forever remained in history as one of the great Russian commanders. Chief of the General Staff of the victorious army in the Great Patriotic War, he raised military theoretical thought and military art to unprecedented heights more than anyone else. He beat the enemy like Suvorov - not with numbers, but with skill. Under his leadership, Soviet troops well mastered the most decisive form of offensive - encirclement with the aim of destroying large enemy groups. Military operations such as Stalingrad, Kursk, Belarus, and Manchuria became a golden page in the annals of Soviet military art. But Alexander Mikhailovich did not attribute the victory only to his own efforts and the efforts of soldiers and officers. He said that the saints, together with the Most Holy Theotokos, came to the aid of the Russian army more than once, protecting long-suffering Rus' with the Veil of Heaven. Source: < /p>