The Shipping Town of Kotka, Finland🇫🇮

[@Anoool1]

I like small towns, they are very peaceful and chill! Thanks for creating this video

[@pedrozatravel]

They are, Kotka wasn't a planned stop for us but I still enjoyed it.

[@RichKatRanch]

Among my favorite things when visiting places outside the U.S. is seeing the beautiful architecture of other countries! My bucket list is growing longer tonight...

[@pedrozatravel]

I totally agree, it is so interesting to see how other cultures have developed.

[@terotaxell5068]

Not city hall, but a previous court room and now an office of our health care area.

[@qayyumbajwa2858]

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[@pedrozatravel]

Thank you so much for stopping by, Kotka is beautiful.

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[@pedrozatravel]

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[@pedrozatravel]

Thank you for watching, I was in Kotka for one day as part of tour. I mostly did the touristy things.

[@keisariskorpioni]

The Lenin's statue or monument was donated to Kotka by Estonian sister city of Tallinn back in 1979. Lenin actually stayed in Kotka, undercover, using several aliases before the Russian revolution, while hiding around Finland from the imperial authorities. Finland was a grand duchy of the Russian empire back then. That controversial statue is no longer there, it was removed and placed into museum storage, along with that separate art piece, Lenin's Missing Arm.

[@pedrozatravel]

Very interesting, I thought it was very strange to have that statue there. My understanding is Finland was kind of partial to the Romanavs back when Russia was an empire because they recognized Finland's uniqueness and allowed the area to have more freedom. There are several monuments in Helsinki still dedicated to the Russian Imperial Family. When the Russian revolution came I hear it was very hard on Finland. I do hope they display the Lenin monument again, not to idolize Lenin, but it is import to remember what happened in the past.

[@keisariskorpioni]

The location of that monument was significant, as it stood next to a house where Lenin stayed while in Kotka. The house exist no more, but the statue were there, until Russia's aggression in Ukraine quickly turned popular opinion, and politicians made the decision to take the monument away. It's been controversial ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.

[@keisariskorpioni]

You got that right, Finns were rather content as imperial subjects until the Russia started a policy of Russification of Finland, in two stages, 1899-1905, and 190-1917. It was all part of a larger policy to russify minorities around the empire. The end goal would have been ternination of political autonomy and cultural uniqueness. This led Finns to quickly shift their attitude towards the Tsar and the empire, and russification campaigns strongly contributed to the Finnish drive for independence. We quickly ceased the moment as the empire collapsed in 1917.

[@keisariskorpioni]

Too bad you missed an awesome place to visit while in Kotka. The Imperial Fishing Lodge of the Tsars in Langinkoski. Father of the last tsar and the empress fell in love with the local nature in 1880 and asked for a lodge to be built. It still stands. The last remaining building owned by the tsars, outside Russia. Nowadays a museum and a popular nature reserve. Tsar Alexander III was able to relax there, along with the family, feeling welcome by the locals, away from strict court etiquette. Alexander died suddenly in 1894, and his son, the last tsar Nicholas II only visited the lodge once. His popularity quickly eroded as russification campaigns began after a few years.

[@keisariskorpioni]

Very little remains of the original Ruotsinsalmi fortress on Kotka island. The British-French naval fleet bombarded and burned everything in 1855, during the Åland War, part of the Crimean War. The only building left from before 1855 is the orthodox church in the city. That Luthern church is newer, finished in 1898. Local legend tells of a stubborn widow, Maria Purpur, who locked herself inside the orthodox church, refusing to let the enemy marines in to destroy the church. The church was spared, while the rest of the fortress city around it burned down.