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Governors of the Grand Duchy of Finland

  • Grand Duchy of FinlandOn the 29th of March 1809, four Estates of occupied Finland gathered at the Diet of Porvoo. They pledged allegiance to Tsar Alexander I of Russia in a solemn…
  • Michael Andreas Barclay de TollyMichael Andreas Barclay de Tolly entered the world in 1761 within the Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth. His family belonged to a Baltic German lineage that…