Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of
Liikkala, ''Pyotr Kornilovich Suhtelen'' (2 August 1751,
Grave – 6 January 1836,
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
), was born in the Netherlands, and was a general in the Russian army during the
Russo-Swedish War (1808–1809)
The Finnish War ( sv, Finska kriget, russian: Финляндская война, fi, Suomen sota) was fought between the Gustavian era, Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic ...
. In 1812 Suchtelen was the plenipotentiary for Russian Emperor
Alexander I in Örebro where he negotiated and signed the
Treaty of Örebro 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
Modlin fortress, 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
Staro-Kalinkin Bridge is a bridge across the Fontanka River in Admiralteysky District, Saint Petersburg. It connects Kolomensky and Bezymyany Islands. Along with Lomonosov Bridge it is one of 7 stone three-span bridges across the Fontanka built ...
in
St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
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
Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, a senior diplomat with the
British Foreign Office) 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
Retrieved 2009-02-23. Cites Hornborg, Eirik. ''När riket sprängdes - fälttågen i Finland och Västerbotten 1808-1809'', Holger Schildts förlag, Helsingfors; 1955.
*Hansard, Thomas Curson. ''The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time'' Volume 24, Great Britain Parliament, and Hansard, 1813
*Staff. ''Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries: Volume 29'' By Department Of Special Collections Of The Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague Staff ..., Edition: illustrated, Published by Springer, 2002, ,
*Otto S. Lankhors
(in Dutch)
1751 births
1836 deaths
People from Grave, North Brabant
Diplomats of the Russian Empire
Russian people of Dutch descent
Russian people of the Kościuszko Uprising
Barons of the Russian Empire
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