website The empire that was russia

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Thank you, Gita

The site is really quite interesting. I did a search on "Finland" to see what I could find. It turned up several concerning Saimaa Canal and Saimaa Lake. I'm wondering if someone can tell me something about these locations?

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Saimaa canal

Saimaa lake is located in the south eastern part of Finland.
The first Saimaa canal was built ready in 1856.The saimaa canal
goes from Lake Saimaa in Finland over the border to Russia
to the gulf of Finland. A Website with map:

http://www.fma.fi/vapaa_aikaan/kanav...hp?page=kartta

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Russia and "Russification"

Dear Finlanders,
I am reading a very informative book by Tuomo Polvinen, translated by Steven Huxley called Imperial Borderland. The author has used a lot of material archived in the USSR microfilm collection of the University of Helsinki. Much of the documents are letters between the Russian Ministers, and to the Tzar, which gives the reader insight into the motives and rationalizations which guided Russian dicta to Finland's Senate, and changes made by the order of the Tzar to the legal and educational system of Finland. The subtitle is Bobrikov and teh Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898-1904.

I may have to buy this book, it's so full of information I can't digest it all at first reading.
Syrene Forsman