Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala, ''Pyotr Kornilovich Suhtelen'' (2 August 1751,

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– 6 January 1836,

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), was born in the Netherlands, and was a general in the Russian army during the

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. In 1812 Suchtelen was the plenipotentiary for Russian Emperor

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in Örebro where he negotiated and signed the

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which brought to an end the Anglo–Russian War (1807–1812). In that treaty his titles included "general of engineers, quarter-master general, ndmember of the council of state". He was active as military engineer. He established a preliminary project of the

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, near Warsaw, when Russia captured this area after the third partition of Poland. Since 1783 he actively worked in Russia. For his project of Staro-Kalinkin Bridge in

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he was promoted to the rank of colonel. Created count, enrolled to the nobility of Finland where his main estate was located. Charlotte Disbrowe visited Sweden in 1834, where her father, (Sir

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, a senior diplomat with the

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) was stationed. She met Van Suchtelen and mentioned in her biography that:Disbrowe pp. 188,189,208

Notes

References

*Disbrowe, Charlotte Anne Albinia.
Old days in diplomacy: recollections of a closed century
', Edition: 2, Jarrold, 1903, Chapter IV ''In Sweden''. *Frilund, Göran

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