Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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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
Siege of Leningrad
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The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the co
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
…East Karelia; Mannerheim had sworn that he would not rest until Karelia was re-incorporated into the "Greater Finland". Finnish troops took part in the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days. On 20 June 1942, Mannerheim was inspecting Finnish front line troops in Poventsa when he and his staff were engaged by a Soviet…
Soviet anti-aircraft battery in Leningrad near Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1941
German soldiers in front of burning houses and a church, near Leningrad in 1941
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb with Erich Hoepner in September 1941
Women from Leningrad digging an anti-tank ditch, July 1941