Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, as regent of Finland, as commander-in-chief o
Mannerheim in 1940
The Mannerheim siblings, c. 1880; Gustaf is standing on the right
After his coronation, Nicholas II of Russia leaves Dormition Cathedral. The Chevalier Guard Lieutenant marching in front to the Tsar's left (to the viewer's right) is Mannerheim.
The expedition of Mannerheim
The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. The clashes took
Tampere's civilian buildings destroyed during the Battle of Tampere
A demonstration at Helsinki Senate Square.
Russian soldiers in Helsinki. Prior to 1917, they sustained Finland's stability, after the February Revolution, the Russian troops became a source of social unrest.
Soldiers of the paramilitary White Guard in Leinola, a suburb of Tampere