Reflecting landscape. Russian Finland and Finnish Petersburg

This book presents significant, but insufficiently known to the wide audience, episodes of mutual influence and interpenetration of Finnish and Russian cultures. They are considered through the prism of female destinies: as Finnish - from a simple peasant woman and the famous runopter Larin Paraske to the aristocrat and maid of honor of Empress Aurora Karamzina - and Petersburgers Anna Akhmatova and Elena Guro. The life of each of these brilliant ladies is connected with the Karelian Isthmus or with St. Petersburg of those times when the capital of the empire was almost on the border with Finland and, to the same extent, was the capital for the Finns as for the Russians. The reader will get acquainted with the Finnish places of St. Petersburg and see how a bright mark was left in the Russian culture of the daughter of the Finnish people