The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland declared its independence from Russia in 1917 amid the Russian Revolution. Earlier in the day, Stubb, who was elected the Nordic country’s president in ...

The Grand Duchy of Finland was a part of the Russian Tsarist Empire from 1809 until 1917 but became an independent nation in the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Two decades later, Finland had ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1. -- The St. Petersburg Government is giving full publicity to the deliberations now going on between the Empire and the Grand Duchy of Finland. Finland's strenuous ...

He added that in the Russian Empire, Finland was granted considerable autonomy with the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Finland, where the Finnish language was revived and preserved.

President of Finland Alexander Stubb, left, is received by Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the government headquarters Rosenbad in Stockholm, on the occasion of Stubb's two-day visit to ...