Letter to webmaster
Dear Sirs,
in your most interesting Vyborg history page
http://www.vyborg.ru/history.htm
there is a sentence which is a little bit oversimplified and makes a future
visitor somewhat confused when he or she visits the city and sees
building and statues from the Finnish era before 1917:
"After the revolution of 1917 Vyborg was given to the newly
achieved independence Finland. During the following period of
20 years Vyborg was greatly developing as industrial, commercial,
cultural and business town."
The fact is that Vyborg, which was conquered by the Russians in 1710,
was incorporated (by Alexander I) with the Vyborg Guberniya into the Grand
Duchy of Finland in 1812. The whole Finland, Vyborg included, was parted from
Russia in 1917 when Finland declared herself independent (which was
recognised by the Bolshevik Government on Dec. 31, 1917 [New Style]).
Vyborg wasn't in any way given to Finland because the Province and the city
of Vyborg were parts
of Finland.
I added a link to your (photo) pages from my Vyborg page
http://www.clinet.fi/~pkr01/viipuri/vyborg.html
With best regards,
Pauli Kruhse
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