G. A. Gripenberg
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Georg Achates Gripenberg was a Finland-Swedish diplomat. He served as an Envoy of Finland to London in 1933–1941 and in Stockholm from 1943 to 1956 and as Finland's first Ambassador to the United Nati
G. A. Gripenberg at the beginning of the 1930s
White Guard (Finland)
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The White Guard, officially known as the Civil Guard, was a voluntary militia, part of the Finnish Whites movement, that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guards in the Finnish Civil War of 19
G. A. Gripenberg
…University in Sweden, in 1917. He then acted as a private secretary to his father for a short time before moving to Finland to join the civil war in the White Guard. In 1918, he was hired by Finland's newly established Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was appointed his country's first diplomatic representative to…
The collapse of discipline in the Tsarist Russian armed forces in 1917 created a power vacuum. Here, anarchist Russian sailors are photographed in Helsinki during the summer of 1917.
Whites in trench at battle of Ruovesi, March 1918.
The Civil Guard House in Iisalmi
White Guard soldiers after the Battle of Tornio.