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unusual facts about Gustav III


Gustav III's Pavilion

In the 1840s, King Oscar I commissioned a restoration of the building by architect George Theodor Chiewitz.


Hedvig Wigert

Just as the great Elisabeth Olin, she was by then a singer and well known for her musical talent, called: "one for her musical talent already well-known female", and Gustav III wanted her for the part of the goddess Doris in the opening grand opera Thetis och Pélée (an opera in Swedish composed by Francesco Uttini with words by Johan Wellander) at the inauguration of the new Opera.

Henrik Schück

He also wrote a series of biographies of historic figures including Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Olaus Petri, King Gustav III as well as William Shakespeare.

La belle Arsène

The opera was the first to have excerpts sung in the air - thanks to Élisabeth Thible, the first woman aeronaut, who, dressed as Minerva, sung impromptu arias from the opera to an audience below her including Gustav III, from a Montgolfier balloon in 1774.

Roman Catholicism in Sweden

In the 1770s, the prominent Liberal Anders Chydenius - himself a Lutheran priest - prevailed upon King Gustav III to legalise the immigration of Catholics (as well as Jews) into Sweden.

Suomenlinna

Efforts to improve fortifications continued under Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, but his tenure was cut short with disagreements with the King Gustav III.


see also

Ehrensvärd

Carl Fredrik Ehrensvärd (1767–1815), Swedish Freiherr, convicted of involvement in the murder of Gustav III in 1792 and sentenced to death

Hagaparken

Hagaparken has historically been favoured by Swedish royalty, especially Gustav III who founded it and developed it 1780-1797, and by the famous troubadour Carl Michael Bellman, a contemporary of Gustav III, who is much associated with Haga due to the lyrics of his compositions, poems and his writings.

Hans Henric von Essen

He accompanied Gustav III at the 1792 masquerade ball at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm on March 16, 1792 where the king was shot and mortally injured.

Jeanna von Lantingshausen

In 1790, Gustav III had her officially banished from court and all places in which it was possible for her to come in contact with members of the royal house, such as the Royal Swedish Opera.

Katedralskolan, Lund

In May 2008, "God Afton Vackra Mask" ("Good Evening, Beautiful Mask"), alluding to the murder of king Gustav III, was performed at AF-Borgen in Lundagård.

Kuninkaanportti

Och här låg konungen Gustav den sista stenen år ("And here laid King Gustav the last stone in the year", the year is left unwritten, because Gustav III never arrived to lay the last stone)