Jan Pieter van Suchtelen [SEP] country of citizenship
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 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 "
using the fortress.
History.
The first fortification built on the place where Kyminlinna stands was a bastion fortress of a few hundred metres in diameter built between 1791 and 1795. The construction of the fortress was first supervised by Russian marshall Alexander Suvorov. After Suvorov the construction work was led by Dutch-born general Jan Pieter van Suchtelen. This so-called Suvorov fortress was demolished to make room for the new, six times larger Kyminlinna that was built in the years 1803-1808. Suchtelen was also the designer