Many of the Governors-General were intensly disliked by the Finnish population. The first man on the post, Sprengtporten, resigned after only a year and Bobrikov was assassinated in 1904 by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.

List of Governors-General of Finland

• Georg Magnus Sprengtporten (December 1 1808 - June 17 1809)
• Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (June 17 1809 - February 1 1810)
• Fabian Steinheil (1810 - 1824)
• Aleksei Adrejevitch Zakrevski (1924 - 1931)
• Fürst Alexander Menshikov (1831 - 1855)
• Count Friedrich Willhelm Rembert von Berg (1855 - 1861)
• Baron Platon Ivanovich Rokassovski (1861 - 1866)
• Count Nikolai Adlerberg (1866 - 1881)
• Count Feodor Logginovich Heiden (1881 - 1898)
• Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov (August 29 1898 - June 17 1904)
• Fürst Ivan Mihailovich Obolenski (August 18 1904 - November 18 1905)
• Nikolai Nikolajevich Gerhard (December 6 1905 - February 2 1908)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Boeckmann (February 2 1908 - November 24 1909)
• Franz Albert Seyn (November 24 1909 - March 16 1917)
• Mihail Aleksandrovich Stahovich (March 31 1917 - September 17 1917)
• Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (September 17 1917 - November 7 1917)