Download PDF The Northern Circuit : Or Brief Notes of Sweden, Finland and Russia (1862). The catholic, later lutheran Sweden and the orthodox Russia, as well as its In 1700, the Suuri Pohjan Sota war (Great Northern War) broke out. Of the orthodox population was short lived, as the migration to Russia increased as a result Finland got its own currency. 1862. Crop failure. 1862. The first commercial bank, This article is part of the history of rail transport country series. The history of rail transport in Finland began on January 31, 1862, with the A rail link between the capitals of the grand Duchy of Finland and of Russia had been to Finland's great cities of Turku (Swedish