Jan Pieter Van Suchtelen (1751–1836)
In 1818 Bushrod Washington mailed Suchtelen autographs of several Founding Fathers.
Jan Pieter van Suchtelen was born on 2 August 1751 in Grave aan de Maas, Netherlands. Trained as a military engineer, he joined the Russian army and fought in the Russo-Swedish War (1808–09). He subsequently served as the Russian minister to Sweden. Suchtelen was an avid bibliophile, with the bulk of his collection of more than 26,000 books stored at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg.
Otto S. Lankhorst, "Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836), Collector of Books and Manuscripts," Yearbook of the Society of Dutch Literature, 1998, 27–44.
"Piotr Sukhtelen and His Collection," Dutch Manuscript Material in the NLR, National Library of Russia Online Exhibitions.