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Finland - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | By the peace of Nystad in 1721 the province of Viborg, the eastern division of Finland, was finally ceded to Russia. |
 | | In 1808, under Gustavus IV., peace was again broken between the two countries, and the war ended by the cession in 1809 of the whole of Finland and the Aland Islands to Russia. |
 | | Finland, however, did not enter Russia as a conquered province, but, thanks to the bravery of her people after they had been abandoned by an incompetent monarch and treacherous generals, and not less to the wisdom and generosity of the emperor Alexander I. |
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