Carl Johan Adlercreutz
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Carl Johan Adlercreutz was a Swedish general and statesman, born in Borgå, Finland on family estates. Entering the Swedish army aged 13 in the Finnish Light Cavalry Brigade, he was present when Gustav
Carl Johan Adlercreutz, count, officer, and statesman, by Johan Niklas Bystroms. Marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Gustav IV Adolf
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Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland.
Carl Johan Adlercreutz
…Finland his estates were confiscated. Adlercreutz returned to Stockholm to take charge of a military junta ruling the country in place of the insane King Gustav IV Adolf after the Coup of 1809. He long hesitated before agreeing to participate in the conspiracy against the king. It was above all the risk of civil war…
Portrait by Per Krafft the Younger, 1809
Gustav Adolf's parents, King Gustav III and Queen Sophia Magdalena
Gustav Adolf at the age of 7.
Gustav IV Adolf's arrest