Governor-General of Finland

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Governor-General of Finland
Coat of arms of Finland
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, the last governor-general of Finland
Appointer	King of Sweden, later Emperor of Russia
Formation	1595[citation needed]
First holder	Klaus Fleming[citation needed]
Final holder	Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
Abolished	1917

The governor-general of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kenraalikuvernööri; Swedish: generalguvernör över Finland; Russian: генерал-губернатор Финляндии) was the military commander and the highest administrator of Finland sporadically under Swedish rule in the 17th and 18th centuries and continuously in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland between 1809 and 1917.