1808 Friccius - RUSSIAN FINLAND - Greater Wrath - DE

Title: Geographische Beschreibung von Russisch-Finnland. [Geographical Description of Russian Finland.]

Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1808. 8vo. 56 pages, bound without the map. Text is in German. A scarce primary resource. This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.

This issue contains a substantial and detailed analysis of Finland, from the period of Russian occupation known by the Finns as the 'Greater Wrath' to the author's contemporary day, when Finland was the predominant term for the entire region from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border. A thorough survey encompassing geography and boundaries, natural history, minerals and commodities, with descriptions of the Imatra waterfall, several lakes including Ladoga, Saïma (Saimaa), and Jerisjärvi (Jänisjärwi), and Finnish islands. Replete with details and statistics pertaining to customs in government, religion, education and justice. The author was a Russian Council of State, a knight of the Order of St. Anna, and Vice President of the College of Justice in St Petersburg.

These are the original pages printed in 1808, and NOT a reprint. This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816 and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy. Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important scientific journal.