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The 1894 monument to Tsar Alexander II on Helsinki’s Senate Square includes a woman often interpreted as Finland personified (left). Look closely and you’ll see she’s wearing a bearskin hood.

The 1894 monument to Tsar Alexander II on Helsinki’s Senate Square includes a woman often interpreted as Finland personified (left). Look closely and you’ll see she’s wearing a bearskin hood.

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