Great Petition

This article is about a Finnish petition. For the sculpture in Melbourne, Australia, see Great Petition (sculpture).

The Great Petition was a document produced in Finland in 1899, during the first period of the Russification of Finland. It petitioned the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas II against his February Manifesto issued earlier in the same year. University students went from village to village to collect more than half a million signatures, roughly one fifth of the then Finnish population, within eleven days.

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