Häggdånger, near Härnösand

Ryssgraven

In 1721 the Russian galley fleet came along this coast and burned it. Härnösand went up. The countryside around it was worked over farm by farm, and afterwards there were bodies that belonged to no parish register. Häggdånger has a place called Ryssgraven — the Russian grave — where the dead from that summer are said to lie together, without names and without stones. Local tradition has kept the location when nothing official did. It is a field like any other field, and everyone in the district knows exactly which one it is.