[1] Vilboa was born in Derpt as the youngest son of Rear Admiral Nikita Vilboa, the former commandant of the port of Kronstadt, a participant in the wars during Peter the Great's reign, and Elizabeth Gluck (d. 1757), daughter of Pastor Ernst Gluck and the lady of the court.

[2] In the Battle of Kunersdorf he commanded the vanguard of the Russian Army, occupied Frankfurt on the Oder.

[3] In January 1762, the 12th Velikiye Luki Infantry Regiment [ru] was named after him, in February of the same year, he was appointed Feldzheichmeister General, that is, the head of the artillery department, and a month later – a member of the Military Collegium.

According to the biographer's testimony, the abundance and volume of resolutions with which he supplied all the submissions that came to him on all four departments entrusted to him as General Feldtsheichmeister [ru]: artillery, engineering, weapons and cadet corps, are amazing.

Vilboa's activities as General Feldtsheichmeister promised to be very fruitful, but in 1765, he was forced to ask for resignation for health reasons: the consequences of a serious injury affected.