Jan Pieter van Suchtelen

Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala, Pyotr Kornilovich Suchtelen/Sukhtelen (2 August 1751, in Grave – 6 January 1836, in Stockholm),[1][2] was born in the Netherlands, and was a general in the Russian army during the Russo-Swedish War (1808–1809).

He established a preliminary project of the Modlin fortress, near Warsaw, when Russia captured this area after the third partition of Poland.

For his project of Staro-Kalinkin Bridge in St Petersburg he was promoted to the rank of colonel.

[5] Created count, enrolled to the nobility of Finland where his main estate was located.

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