Finnish resistance has continued to draw admiration by commentators, military thinkers, and strategists over the decades since the end of the conflict, who continue to mine the Winter War for valuable ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revered but flawed statesmen, often with a military background, loom over the 20th-century history of Europe ...
In spring 1919, Finland’s regent, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa in philosophy at the University of Helsinki. To commemorate this event, the Helsinki University ...
STOCKHOLM — Helmer Renny Harlin is returning to his native Finland to make “Mannerheim,” his long-gestating biopic about the Finnish national hero. Pic will be produced by Solar Film’s managing ...
Pienellä Mäntysaarella, pari kilometriä Hangon keskustan itäpuolella, on pieni niemeke, joka työntyy Hangon kuuluisilta hiekkarannoilta suoraan Itämeren syliin. Vaahtopäät lyövät voimalla ...
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is one of the giants of Finnish history. Born under Tsarist rule, he rose to become an officer in the Imperial army before leading White forces in the Finnish Civil War—and ...
Members of the public will now have increased access to the train car in which Carl Gustav Mannerheim – the larger-than-life war leader and Finnish president – used to dine. The saloon car has ...
The improbably tall, 29-year-old guardsman wearing a helmet crowned with the Romanov double eagle, caught on film attending Tsar Nicholas II at his coronation in St Petersburg, was known to his fellow ...
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