Besides losing Vyborg, her most important port, Finland was forced to lease to Russia the peninsula of Hangoe, key to the Gulf of Finland. The lease was to run for thirty years at a yearly rental of about $150,000. The evacuation of the ceded areas began on March 14 and from Hangoe alone some 11,000 Finns departed, taking with them only such goods as they could carry. Above is the dramatic moment when three Russian soldiers first face a Finnish sentry across the new boundary.
