“…The eastern Baltic's share of the Sound trade contracted more than half by the 1720s (to 14.4 per cent), and Finland's would rise, ballooning to nearly two‐thirds by this point (Unger 1959, 215; Åström 1975, 1978; Layton 1993, 283). Dutch ships would reach as far north as the northern Dvina (where Archangel would soon develop) by 1578, ousting English competitors, and with renewed vigour in the 1630s (Tossavainen 1994; Kotilaine 2003, 311; Kagarlitsky 2008, 96).…”