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I highly recommend Dr. Bodie Ashton's lecture in the video above for information on her life in an English language source.

Finnish girl in folk costume from Jääski village (now Lesogorskiy village), Vyborg governorate (1868)

A Finnish housewife buys a new broom every morning - a necessary extravagance, since she sweeps her whole house every day, and the broom she uses is just a bundle of fresh, green birch leaves, whose natural dampness licks up the dust.

Porcelain figurines from the "Peoples of Russia" series (1912)

Artist : Joseph Alanen (1885-1920)

tervetuloa muumimaailmaan

Estonian vintage postcard, mailed to Helsinki, Finland

Finnish actress Ida Emilia Aalberg as Magda in Hermann Sudermann’s play “Heimat”, Saint Petersburg

Finnish volunteers arrive in Tallinn, Estonia in December 1918 during Estonian War of Independence

Bourdain and Blythe

(Reblogging is also appreciated!)

Tove Jansson’s murals at the Moomin themed kindergarten in Pori, Finland

2008