[Sherman Logan]

When the Tsar was murdered, Finland changed their constitution to select a head of state in another way.

Of course, you're gliding over a revolution or two and a civil war that was part of the process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War

[donmeaker]

Finland was a constitutional monarchy, compared to the rest of Russia which was directly ruled.

It took some fighting in the Civil War to get Bolshie Russia to admit it.

Mannerheim was a Russian General, and never did learn to speak Finnish without a Swedish accent.