Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Pieter van Suchtelen

Dutch-Swedish-Russian diplomat and art collector from County of Liikkala

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1751

Place of Birth: Grave, North Brabant, Netherlands

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1836

Profession: military personnel, diplomat

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jan Pieter van Suchtelen

  • Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala, Pyotr Kornilovich Suhtelen (2 August 1751, Grave – 6 January 1836, Stockholm), was born in the Netherlands, and was a general in the Russian army during the Russo-Swedish War (1808–1809).
  • In 1812 Suchtelen was the plenipotentiary for Russian Emperor Alexander I in Ă–rebro where he negotiated and signed the Treaty of Ă–rebro which brought to an end the Anglo–Russian War (1807–1812).
  • In that treaty his titles included "general of engineers, quarter-master general, [and] member of the council of state".He was active as military engineer.
  • He established a preliminary project of the fortress in Modlin, near Warsaw, when Russia captured this area after the third partition of Poland.
  • Created count, enrolled to the nobility of Finland where his main estate was located.
  • (source: Osmo Durchman (1934), Varför blev Johan Peter van Suchtelen finsk friherre och greve? Genos 5, 1934) Charlotte Disbrowe visited Sweden in 1834, where her father, (Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, a senior a diplomat with the British Foreign Office) was stationed.
  • She met Suchtelen and mentioned in her biography that:

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