Great Fire of Turku

[6][8] The night of the fire, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Observator at the Imperial Academy of Turku, was in the Vartiovuori Observatory on Vartiovuorenmäki [fi].

[9] As the rest of the academy has suffered great damage, indispensable activities such as meetings of the consistory and the chancellor's office were moved to the observatory.

[1] As a result of the fire, the Imperial Academy of Turku was transferred to Helsinki, which in 1812 had been made the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

[10] Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Finland Arseniy Zakrevskiy was responsible for rebuilding the city after the fire.

His proposal resulted in the Senate of Finland selecting Architect Carl Ludvig Engel to create the new city plan for Turku.

Painting of the Cathedral and the Academy building after the fire, by Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg whose atelier also burned down, 1827