Peter von Sievers

Peter von Sievers
Пётр Иванович Сиверс
Born 1674
Stade, Duchy of Bremen
Died 1740
St. Petersburg, Russia
Allegiance  Russia
Service/branch  Russian Navy
Years of service 1704 - 1732
Rank Admiral
Commands held snow "Falk" (1705-1706)
frigate "Kronshlot" (1707-1709)
battleship "Victoria" (1713)
battleship "Leferm" (1714-1715)
battleship "St. Catherine" (1716)
battleship "Moscow" (1717-1718)
Russian Admiralty (1727-1732)
Awards Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
Peter the Great's Baltic Fleet in 1710.

Peter von Sievers, also known as Peter von Sivers, Pyotr Ivanovich Sivers or simply as Peter Sivers (Russian: Пётр Иванович Сиверс; 1674 – 1740) was an Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

Career

Sievers belonged to the Sievers family, a noble lineage hailing from the Duchy of Holstein.[1] His family moved to Copenhagen, where his father entered the Danish Navy as a captain, shortly after his birth. in 1688 Sivers joined the Danish Navy too and by 1703 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. The following year he joined the Russian Navy with the rank of captain in order to assist in the building and modernization of the Russian fleet spearheaded by Emperor Peter the Great. He was made part of the Estonian nobility in 1716, becoming the founder of the House of Sivers.

Von Sievers became the vice-president of the Russian Admiralty Board in 1727 and its president, with the rank of admiral, between 1728 and 1732. In 1732 Sievers fell from grace as a result of a plot led by hostile parties. He was unfairly removed from office and exiled to his Ekekäll country estate near Khiytola (Estonian: Hiitola), in the former Vyborg Governorate of Karelia —present-day Priozersky District, that had been granted to him for his services. After almost eight years in exile, he was allowed to come to St. Petersburg for treatment on 9 January 1740 where he died in December the same year.[2]

Ships under his command

All these ships belonged to the Baltic Fleet:

  • 14-gun snow "Falk" (1705-1706)
  • 24-gun frigate "Kronshlot" (1707-1709)
  • 50-gun battleship Victoria (1713)
  • 70-gun battleship Leferm (1714-1715)
  • 60-gun battleship St. Catherine (1716)
  • 64-gun battleship Moscow (1717-1718)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf von: Genealogisches Handbuch der livländischen Ritterschaft, Bd.: 1, Görlitz, (1929)
  2. ↑ Dan, John. The history of the Russian Navy in the reign of Peter the Great / PA Krotov - SPb. : Historical illustration, 1999. - p. 161.
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