The Finns, as it should be assumed, came from Asia: even during the time of the Persian king Cyrus, they lived along the eastern side of the Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea; then a little time before the Nativity of Christ. they crossed the Urals, into Europe, to the banks of the Volga and Kama. From there, little by little, they moved north and west, and finally, in the 4th century after R.H. stopped in those countries where their descendants still exist, i.e. in the Grand Duchy of Finland, in the provinces of Estland, Livonia, Courland, Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Vologda, Tver, Moscow and some other places.
V. Vereshchagin. Essays on the Arkhangelsk province. St. Petersburg. 1847. pp.104-105
This description of the settlement of the Finno-Ugric peoples, accepted in the empire, exactly coincides with the description of the settlement of the Sarmatian tribes in Eastern Europe accepted by modern historians.