Bruce Y.V. (1670-1735), warlord, statesman

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BRUCE Yakov Villimovich (James Daniel) (1670-1735), count (1721), state and war figure, general field marshal (1726). Brother of R.V. Bruce, close friend of Emperor Peter the Great's. In the beginning of the Northern War (1700-21), he commanded artillery, taking Noteburg (1702, see Schlisselburg Fortress) and Nyenschantz (1703). From 1717, he was a Senator and President of the Mining and Manufactory Collegium (until 1722). In 1721, together with A.I. Osterman, he signed the Treaty of Nystad with Sweden. When Emperor Peter the Great died, he became head of the funereal committee, directing the funeral ceremonial program. In 1726, he retired. He was one of the best educated men of his time, an astronomer, mathematician, ballistician, numismatician and translator. He had largest private library and collection (bequeathed to the Petersburg Academy of Sciences).

References: Библиотека Я. В. Брюса: Каталог. Л., 1989; Синдеев В. В., Ерофеева А. Ф. Яков Виллимович Брюс: (Материалы к биогр.) // Материалы и сообщения по фондам Отдела рукописей и редкой книги Библиотеки Российской академии наук, 1990. СПб., 1994. С. 211-226; Кирюхин А. В. Тот самый кудесник Брюс. М., 2003; Филимон А. Н. Яков Брюс. М., 2003.

D. Y. Guzevich, I. D. Guzevich. Bruce Yakov Villimovich (James Daniel)
Синдеев В. В. Ерофеева А. Ф.Яков Вилимович Брюс: (Материалы к биогр.) // Материалы и сообщения по фондам Отдела рукописей и редкой книги Библиотеки Российской академии наук, 1990. СПб., 1994 Great Northern War of 1700-21
Shlisselburg Fortress.
Russian Academy of Sciences