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Fabian Steinheil was born in Estonia and became a Lieutenant in the Russian army in 1782. He took part in the War in Finland in 1788 and in 1791-92 he worked with construction of fortifications in Old Finland , after which he served in military cartography. He became a Major General in 1789 and took part in the campaigns in Prussia in 1806-07 and Poland in 1805-07 . He became a Lieutenant General in 1807 and commanded the Russian troops on Åland in 1809 during the Finnish War . In 1810 he was appointed as the Governor-General of Finland, to succeed Prince Michael Andrew Barclay de Tolly. He was well regarded by the Finnish population and was made a Count in 1812. In 1813 he took part in the war against Napoleon as the commander of an army in Courland and Livonia , and was succeeded as Governor-General by the influential Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt . However, due to Armfelt's fragile health, Steinheil soon returned to the post of Governor-General which he held to 1824 , being then succeeded by Count Arseni Zakrevski . He remained in Finland and died in Helsinki 1831.
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