Kesar Ordin

Kesar Filippovich Ordin was a 19th century Russian historian, who is perhaps most known of his work in which he tried to disprove the claims published by Finnish (also part of Russia at that time) Leo Mechelin about the 1809 Diet of Porvoo. Whereas Mechelin thought that Finland and Russia had made a treaty which resulted the two countries to form a so-called "permanent union", Ordin's version was that Finland had simply been merged to the mother land.

References

*Heikkonen, Ojakoski, Väisänen, "Muutosten maailma 4: Suomen historian käännekohtia" (WSOY, 2003), ISBN 951-0-27645-6. Pages 59 and 202.