Kalevala

Many centuries ago in the edge, where tall pines and spruce are noisy, and sea waves are talking with lake surface, wonderful folk traditions have developed. They were called runes and generations from the mouth to the mouth, so that in the 19th century to be folded into a single poem by the Finnish linguist Elias Lennrot.

Kalevala - the name of the sunny and fertile country, in which glorious heroes live: here the old, wise Vyuinemeinen sings his prophetic songs and everything is done by his word; Here is a fearless hunter, a cheerful Lemminkainen is going to get married in a gloomy country Pohjyol; But the skilled blacksmith Ilmarinen Kuts the wonderful mill of sampo, who can bestow its master and flour, salt, and gold. Heroes go on wanderings and commit exploits, defeat evil and restore justice - so that wealth and happiness on their native land, so that the good people of evil and troubles do not know.

The legendary Karelian-Finnish epic retold for children Alexander Lyubarskaya, and was embodied in illustrations by Nikolai Kochergin.