Ордин К., Покорение Финляндии, ч. Although in June 2014, then newly elected Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb broke with tradition and used his first official visit abroad to visit Estonia. [4], The plan involved using the series of fortifications built after 1790 as staging grounds for the Russian advances into Finland. Engman, Max: Ett långt farväl - Finland mellan Sverige och Ryssland efter 1809. In 1495–1497, a war between Sweden and Russia was fought. [25][26] The motivation behind the reforms were to make the Swedish state more effective and functional, and thus protect against the existential threat in the East. Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries, and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. The Grand Duchy of Finland was to retain the Gustavian constitution of 1772 with only slight modifications until 1919. In 1809, the Russian Empire conquered Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War. A war scenario between Russia and Sweden or any other country in North Europe (Finland, Norway, Denmark) is very unlikely. Defenses were strong enough to prevent the Russians from trying to storm the fortress by surprise. On 14 August, Count Nikolay Kamensky decided to use this numerical superiority to launch a new offensive. Swedish landings were invariably made with poorly equipped and trained forces, often with troops who had very low morale. ... Russia’s assertive behavior is driving Sweden and Finland — two countries that have never been part of NATO — closer to the alliance. The victor of this struggle was Queen Margaret I of Denmark , who brought the three Scandinavian kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and, Norway under her rule (the " Kalmar Union ") in 1389. 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The Swedish volunteer air force unit F 19 was set up in Finland, with 12 fighter aircraft and 4 bombers from the Swedish Airforce. [18], A Russian battle fleet under Admiral Pyotr Khanikov (also Chanikoff) sortied in late July to clear the Swedish blockades in the archipelago, to cut contact between Åland and Sweden, and to stop Swedish supply transports sailing in the Gulf of Bothnia. Tuchkov's battered unit strained to hold its own against Sandels, while the progress of a relief force under General Alekseyev was contained by guerrilla fighters. Finland became known as Österland, and its main urban settlement evolved in Åbo. Birger built a fortress in Tavastia and some fortifications along the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, where Swedish settlement on a mass scale began. Finland was returned to Sweden, while the majority of Russia's conquests (Swedish Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, Kexholm and the bulk of Karelia) were ceded to the tsardom. As in the Scandinavian part of the kingdom, a gentry or (lower) nobility consisted of magnates and yeomen who could afford armament for a man and a horse. Finland did not take part in World War I, but nationalism also had an influ… [22], In 1808 a British expeditionary force under John Moore arrived in Sweden, but after months of idleness departed for the beginning of what became known as the Peninsular War. Seventy percent of the population was engaged in agriculture and forestry, and half of the value of production came from these primary industries in 1900. During the 11th and 12th centuries, Sweden gradually became a unified Christian kingdom. While none of the fights ended with a decisive winner, the overall strategic victory went to Russia, who gained advantage in the Finnish archipelago by managing to link up their separate coastal units. The Vikings were known to Finns due to both their participation in commerce and their plundering. 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