Franz Albert Seyn (July 27, 1862 - summer of 1918) was a Russia

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n general who was Governor-General of Finland

Governor-General of Finland

Governor-General of Finland ; was the military commander and the highest administrator of Finland sporadically under Swedish rule in the 17th and 18th centuries and continuously in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland between 1808 and 1917.-Swedish rule:...

 between November 24, 1909 and March 16, 1917.

Before he became Governor-General Seyn had been a staff officer in the military district of Finland and an aide to the Governor-General. Seyn contributed in the Russification of Finland

Russification of Finland

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 as he followed in the foot-steps of his assassinated

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 (1904) predecessor, Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov

Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov

Nikolay Ivanovich Bobrikov ; born on in St. Petersburg – June 16, 1904 in Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Russian soldier and politician....

. Finnish autonomy was further limited and in laws passed in 1908 and 1910 the Duma

Duma

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, instead of the Finnish Diet

Diet of Finland

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, was given rights to make laws concerning the Grand Duchy of Finland

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.

After the February Revolution

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 the Russian Provisional Government

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 arrested Seyn on March 16, 1917 and brought him to Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 where he apparently was killed the next year.

Literature

• Pertti Luntinen: F. A. Seyn 1862 - 1918 - A Political Biography of a tsarist Imperialist as Administrator of Finland, Helsinky, 1985, ISBN 951-9254-72-2, in English.

External links

• Short biography with 1910 photo

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