Ehrensvärd grave

[1] After Ehrensvärd's death in 1772 king Gustaf III of Sweden gave an order that he should be buried at the yard at the heart of the fortress of Sveaborg (later known in Finnish as Suomenlinna).

Construction of the tomb took eleven years, during which time the body of Ehrensvärd rested in a temporary grave at the cemetery of the Ulrika Eleonora Church in Helsinki.

Ehrensvärd's coffin was moved to Suomenlinna and placed into the fortress tomb on 5 July 1783 in a solemn event attended by the king himself.

The metal used for the bronze ornaments in the memorial was melted down from Russian cannons obtained as war bounty from the battle of Svensksund in 1790.

"Here rests Count Augustin Ehrensvärd, field marshal knight and commander of the order of His Royal Majesty, in the middle of his own work, the fortress of Sveaborg, the fleet of the army.