Kalevala

The painstakingly gathered by the famous Finnish folklorist Elias Lenronrot, this epic caused in the international community of scientists-folklorists that still not stopped war between supporters and opponents of Lennrot, who reproached the collector for the arbitrary compilation of texts, their “combing” and other professional sins. However, academic disputes could no longer stop the victorious procession of Kalevala in the world - on its basis plays, operas and ballets wrote, it was illustrated by famous artists and translated into the leading languages ​​of the world, films, cartoons and TV shows, and in Finland and Karelia National holidays have been established in her honor.