[2] The experience of Saltykov's military art was adopted and developed by Pyotr A. Rumyantsev, who served in his troops.

[1] Saltykov was born in Russia in the village of Nikolskoye, southwest to the Lake Nero, the son of Semyon Andreievich Saltykov (10 April 1672 - 1 October 1742), a landowner of an ancient Boyar family which rivalled the Romanovs in nobility and was descended from a sister of the first Romanov Tsar, and wife Fekla Yakovlevna Volynskaya.

He was a distant cousin of Sergei Vasilievich Saltykov, first lover of Catherine the Great, and was also related to Praskovia Fyodorovna Saltykova.

According to contemporaries, few believed that this "gray-haired, small and simple old man" could be able to successfully resist the troops of the famous Frederick the Great.

After his retirement, the universally forgotten famous Elizabethan field marshal did not live for long and a year later died on his estate at Marfino.