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Trip to Russian Finland

Essay on the history and culture

Russian Finland is not a geographical place, but rather a place in the history of Russian culture. This name was used for the Karelian Isthmus, part of the Russian empire, a locale of summer houses and estates for many Russian writers and artistic intelligentsia. This book is a collection of memoirs related to this land and the Russian estates there by: writer Leonid Andreev who died there; writer M. Krestovskaia, poet and translator T. Shchepkina-Kupernik, poets Vadim Gardner and Erkii Taberman. Among the people mentioned in this book are: legal scholar A.F. Koni, artists V. Serov and I. Repin, ministers A.K. Kuroparkin and E. Kartavtsev, doctors V. Bekhterev and I. G. Turner, etc. Also included are prose and poetry about Russian Finland. Bibliography.