Baltic governorates, stuck as puppet

[Chaise Tactique]

Hi, title, i made a strong industry and i'm starting to build a great army in 1888, i try my best to free from russaint puppetery but i cant find a way to leave this. i used option early, i was hoping it will last some times, but it decrease really quick i'm at 0 on will of liberty. atm i try to take part in revolution in finland between independant and pro-russian. but i aint sure if it will works.

Ive got spain and austria with me btw

[Chaise Tactique]

do you know if i intentionally create a revolution, taking part of revolutionaries will set me free from Russia ?

[Kaiser Richard]

For that save its maybe too late.
But with a fresh new save you could try this: Try to decrease relations with Russia from day 1. Make demands for own market, provinces etc., which they should refuse, as soon as they are available (day 1 and in 1841). Build some basic resource buildings to be less dependent on Russia for imports + dont build buildings which require too much Russian products. Keep your prestige high (with events or army size) so you dont loose strategic interest slots -) use your interest in Britain and in Poland. (So you can be sure to get and keep British support for independence and maybe get someone else to help as well). Pray that you dont get interest group lobbies supporting Russia. Theres a chance you will need to restart, if Russia starts to improve relations, grants you millitary exceptions etc. (if those things lower your liberty desire too quickly) or Russia sides against you in a revolution. If everything goes right, you can expell Russsian diplomats, get independence around 1841/42, and demand some Polish land, thanks to that strategic interest. Oh.. and try to keep Prussia happy, because if they dont like you, they will declare war on you as soon as they can.
This is the strategy which more often than not worked for me.