Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131012165847/@comment-440838-20131124142142

Yeah, it would require from Napoleon something more than yet several victories... And he hardly could use Sweden's help for that — Sweden would never allow independence of Finland either.

In OTL Russia did provide Finland a wide autonomy, in fact its citizens had more political rights than most Russians (the process of autonomization stopped after the January Uprising in Poland, which convinced the Russian emperors that local nationalism isn't something to play along). Ultimately Finland could become a nearly independent country in personal union with Russia — but I guess it isn't what Canuck2012 meant.

Another option is some other outcome of the Russian Civil War. Instead of the communists it could be won by some kind of Russian nationalists who'd declare Russia "an empire without emperor" (something like Horthy's Hungary or Franco's Spain).