[HIGHLIGHTS] “I received rights that I didn’t have close to as part of Sweden”: historian - about Finland’s entry into the Russian Empire

Vladimir Baryshnikov is head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at St. Petersburg State University.

He spoke about the preconditions for Finland's annexation to Russia and how it lived under the rule of the Russian Empire. The Diet of 1809 became for Finland, in fact, a constituent assembly that determined the status of the Grand Duchy within Russia, he noted in an interview with RT. “I received rights that I didn’t have close to as part of Sweden”: historian - about Finland’s entry into the Russian empire.