diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/routing/RemoteRouterConfig.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/routing/RemoteRouterConfig.scala
index 0584296238..73bf6948fe 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/routing/RemoteRouterConfig.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/routing/RemoteRouterConfig.scala
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ package akka.routing
 import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory
 import akka.actor.ActorContext
 import akka.actor.ActorRef
-import akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl
 import akka.actor.Deploy
 import akka.actor.InternalActorRef
 import akka.actor.Props
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@ import akka.actor.Address
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
 import java.lang.IllegalStateException
+import akka.actor.ActorCell
 
 /**
  * [[akka.routing.RouterConfig]] implementation for remote deployment on defined
@@ -72,12 +72,10 @@ class RemoteRouteeProvider(nodes: Iterable[Address], _context: ActorContext, _re
         format context.self.path.toString)
 
       case (n, Nil, ys) ⇒
-        val impl = context.system.asInstanceOf[ActorSystemImpl] //TODO ticket #1559
         IndexedSeq.empty[ActorRef] ++ (for (i ← 1 to nrOfInstances) yield {
           val name = "c" + childNameCounter.incrementAndGet
           val deploy = Deploy("", ConfigFactory.empty(), props.routerConfig, RemoteScope(nodeAddressIter.next))
-          impl.provider.actorOf(impl, props, context.self.asInstanceOf[InternalActorRef], context.self.path / name,
-            systemService = false, Some(deploy), lookupDeploy = false, async = false)
+          context.asInstanceOf[ActorCell].attachChild(props.withDeploy(deploy), name, systemService = false)
         })
 
       case (_, xs, _) ⇒ throw new ConfigurationException("Remote target.nodes can not be combined with routees for [%s]"
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteRouterSpec.scala b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteRouterSpec.scala
index 1255489691..8d7effc5d9 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteRouterSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteRouterSpec.scala
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ akka.actor.deployment {
     nr-of-instances = 4
   }
 }""").withFallback(system.settings.config)
-  val other = ActorSystem("remote-sys", conf)
+  val otherSystem = ActorSystem("remote-sys", conf)
 
   override def atTermination() {
-    other.shutdown()
+    otherSystem.shutdown()
   }
 
   "A Remote Router" must {
@@ -199,6 +199,25 @@ akka.actor.deployment {
       system.stop(router)
     }
 
+    "set supplied supervisorStrategy" in {
+      val escalator = OneForOneStrategy() {
+        case e ⇒
+          println("## " + e)
+          testActor ! e; SupervisorStrategy.Escalate
+      }
+      val router = system.actorOf(Props.empty.withRouter(new RemoteRouterConfig(
+        RoundRobinRouter(1, supervisorStrategy = escalator),
+        Seq(Address("akka", "remote-sys", "localhost", 12347)))), "blub3")
+
+      router ! CurrentRoutees
+      EventFilter[ActorKilledException](occurrences = 1) intercept {
+        EventFilter[ActorKilledException](occurrences = 1).intercept {
+          expectMsgType[RouterRoutees].routees.head ! Kill
+        }(otherSystem)
+      }
+      expectMsgType[ActorKilledException]
+    }
+
   }
 
 }