Governor-General of Finland
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The Governor-General of Finland (in Finnish Suomen kenraalikuvernööri; in Swedish Generalguvernör av Finland) was the head of the Senate of Finland, the government in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, between 1808 and 1917. The Governor-General was the highest representative of the Russian Tsar/Grand Duke of Finland and received his instructions directly from the Tsar.
Many of the Governors-General were intensively disliked by the Finnish population. The first man on the post, Sprengtporten, resigned after only a year and Bobrikov was assassinated in 1904 by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
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List of Governors-General of Finland
- Georg Magnus Sprengtporten (December 1 1808 - June 17 1809)
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (June 17 1809 - February 1 1810)
- Fabian Steinheil (1810 - 1813)
- Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1813)
- Fabian Steinheil (1814 - 1824)
- Aleksei Adrejevitch Zakrevski (1824 - 1831)
- Fürst Alexander Menshikov (1831 - 1855)
- Count Friedrich Willhelm Rembert von Berg (1855 - 1861)
- Baron Platon Ivanovich Rokassovski (1861 - 1866)
- Count Nikolai Adlerberg (1866 - 1881)
- Count Feodor Logginovich Heiden (1881 - 1898)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov (August 29 1898 - June 17 1904)
- Fürst Ivan Mihailovich Obolenski (August 18 1904 - November 18 1905)
- Nikolai Nikolajevich Gerhard (December 6 1905 - February 2 1908)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Boeckmann (February 2 1908 - November 24 1909)
- Franz Albert Seyn (November 24 1909 - March 16 1917)
- Mihail Aleksandrovich Stahovich (March 31 1917 - September 17 1917)
- Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (September 17 1917 - November 7 1917)
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