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| | GUSTAVUS III. - LoveToKnow Article on GUSTAVUS III. |
 | | (1746-1792), king of Sweden, was the eldest son of Adolphus Frederick, king of Sweden, and Louisa Ulrica of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great, and was born on the 24th of January 1746. |
 | | Frederick bluntly informed his nephew that, in concert with Russia and Denmark, he had guaranteed the integrity of the existing Swedish constitution, and significantly advised the young monarch to play the part of mediator and abstain from violence. |
 | | The peace of Varl saved Sweden from any such humiliating concession, and in October 1791 Gustavus took the bold but by no means imprudent step of concluding an eight years defensive alliance with the empress, who thereby bound herself to pay her new ally annual subsidies amounting to 300,000 roubles. |
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