Re: For Our Favourite Russian Chauvinists
- From: holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Holman)
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:49:43 +0300
In article <dev6ie$3b8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, erkki.aalto@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Eugene Holman <holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> : settle there after they retired. With the ascent to the throne of Czar
> : Alexander II in 1894, a heavy-handed program of Russification was
> : implemented which saw an increasing flow of Russian immigrants,
> : administrators, and military personnel from Russia as well as a reaction
> : to this from the Finns in the form of massive emigration, particularly to
> : North America, the assassination of the Russian govorner Bobrikov, and the
> : defiant mass Fennicization of surnames in 1905. Between the turn of the
> : 20th century and the outbreak of WW I, Helsinki was a trilingual city (see
> : the still surviving trilingual street sign at
>
> This is the third version of your posting and you still mixing Alexander
> with Nicholas.
Sorry. Yes, Nicholas II.
Thanks for the correction.
Ivan was terrible, Peter was great, and Boris was good enough.
Regards,
Eugene Holman
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