Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
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Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert Graf von Berg was an Imperial Russian nobleman, statesman, diplomat and general of Baltic German descent. Berg was a count of the Austrian Empire and Grand Duchy of Finland and the 5th last man to be promoted General-Field Marshal in the history of the Russian Empire. He served as the Governor-General of Finland from 1854 to 1861 and the last Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland from 1863 to 1874.
Portrait by Jan Michał Strzałecki, 1867
The Sagnitz castle, where Count von Berg and his siblings spent their childhood
Coat of arms of the counts of the family of 1856, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid Klingspor in 1882.
Grand Duchy of Finland
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The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between 1809 and 1917 as an autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire.
Georg Magnus Sprengtporten was as the first who served Governor-General of Finland.
Finnish 20 Kopeks Banknote from 1814
Central Helsinki in 1820
Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion in the middle of the 19th century