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The Ingrian Finns originate partly from resettlers and work-migrants during the period of Swedish rule 1617– 1703 arriving from present-day Finland, then an integral part of the Swedish realm; and to lesser extent from more or less voluntary conversion among the Votes and the Izhorians that was gratified by the Swedes.

After the RussianThe Russian Empire ( Russian: also Imperial Russia covers the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great into the Russian Empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposition of Nicholas II of Russia, reconquest and the foundation of Saint Petersburg, the flow of migration was reversed. Russians were granted land in Ingria and Lutheran Ingrian Finns left Ingria, where they were in minority, for Old FinlandOld Finland Vanha Suomi in Finnish) is a name used for the areas that Sweden lost to Russia in the Great Northern War and in the Hats' Russian War. Old Finland was joined to the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812. In the Peace Treaty in 1721, that, i.e. Russia's 18th century17th century 18th century 19th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701- 1800; however, historians will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th Century as 1715- 89, gains north of the Gulf of FinlandThe Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include H, where Lutherans were in great majority. There they assimilated with the Karelian FinnsFinnish Karelia historically also Swedish Karelia or Carelia is a historical province in eastern Finland. It refers to the western parts of Karelia that during the second millennium has been under western dominance, religiously and politically. Western Ka.

The 20th century19th century 20th century 21st century more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901- 2000 in the sense of the Gre SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 rule, and the German occupation ( 1941– 1944) during the Great Patriotic War, was as disastrous for the Ingrian Finns as for other lesser nationalities: prosecuted as unreliables, if not executed, then deported to Siberia or dispersed all over the Soviet Union.