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[341.24(470+571:485)+327(470+571:481)] (091) “ 17 (18 (045)

Authors

Nielsen Jens Petter, Institute of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway

Abstract

This article is devoted to the 200th anniversary of the Russian-Swedish Union Treaty of 1812, which was one of the international prerequisites for both the Swedish-Norwegian union and the Norwegian constitution of 1814. It raises the question whether the friendship established between Russia and Sweden in 1812 comprised Norway too – and to which extent it is possible to speak of Norwegian-Russian relations as something different from Swedish-Russian relations in the period of the Swedish-Norwegian union (1814–1905).

Keywords

Russian-Swedish Treaty of 1812, "Russian menace", Russian-Norwegian relations, border delimitation, November Treaty of 1855.