Great Petition

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The Great Petition was a document produced in Finland in 1899, during the first period of the Russification of Finland. It petitioned the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas II against his February Manifesto issued earlier in the same year. University students went from village to village to collect more than half a million signatures, roughly one fifth of the then Finnish population, within eleven days.

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Literature from periodicals:

  • John William Nylander, Suuri lähetystö : muistoja ja tuokiokuvia (alkuteos: Den stora deputationen, suom. Santeri Ingman), 1899 (162 s.)
  • Santeri Ingman, Suuri lähetystö : kertomus matkasta ja toimista; esittänyt S. I.. Laulajan tervehdys : runo / Ilmari Calamnius. Otava, 1899. (32 s.)

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