PETER I, the Great. Letter signed ('Petr') to 'Mister General Field Marshal Count Sheremetev', St. Petersburg, 15 December 1715, with an autograph note, 1 page, 4°, (integral address leaf with remnant of seal), (blank margin and folds repaired, light soiling). Provenance: manuscript catalogue numbers in red and black ink.

PETER I, the Great. Letter signed (\'Petr\') to \'Mister General Field Marshal Count Sheremetev\', St. Petersburg, 15 December 1715, with an autograph note, 1 page, 4°, (integral address leaf with remnant of seal), (blank margin and folds repaired, light soiling). Provenance: manuscript catalogue numbers in red and black ink.



Peter I acknowledges his letter of 29 November and the news therein, and commands Sheremetev\' to winter his troops between the Brandenburg border and the banks of the Vistula, probably to prevent any Swedish incursion into Pomerania. Peter hopes that six infantry and one cavalry regiment will winter in Germany, but that must be kept a secret until Sheremetev\' is instructed by Russian ministers. These actions may have been connected with the Prussian-Danish siege of the port of Stralsund which ended in a Swedish defeat in 1715. Peter closes in his own hand, congratulating Sheremetev\' on the birth of his son. Boris Petrovich Sheremetev\' (24 April 1651 - 17 February 1719), marshall of Russia, knight of the Order of St. Andrew, friend and collaborator of Peter the Great, created count in 1706, and among those noble ordered to settle in the new city of St. Petersburg. His second marriage to Anna Petrovna, née Saltikova, produced five children of which Sergei Borisovich (1715-68) is referred to in this letter.