Anjala Manor

18th-century manor at the centre of the Anjala League conspiracy

Anjala Manor (Anjalan kartano) sits on a bend of the Kymijoki, a wooden manor house that has belonged to the same Wrede family since the 1750s. The current main building was completed in 1791 and is unusually intact for a Finnish manor of its age.

It's best known as the setting for the Anjala League conspiracy of 1788 — a moment when Swedish officers fed up with King Gustav III's war on Russia tried to negotiate independently with Catherine the Great. The manor now houses a museum on the conspiracy and on rural manor life.

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In July 1788, a group of Swedish officers stationed in the area signed the "Anjala Note" at this manor — a remarkable letter to the Russian Empress Catherine II, proposing peace and an end to King Gustav III's war. The plotters were convicted of treason; one was executed. The manor became, by accident, one of the most famous addresses in Swedish-Finnish history.