Finnish War 1808-09

 

Tulkittua Tuuvaa exhibition at

Mikkeli Art Museum 2009

 

Prints size 13 x 18 cm

 

 

Photographs based on the Tales of

Ensign Stål written in Swedish by the Finland-Swedish author Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of

Finland. 

 

The poem describes the events of the Finnish War (1808–1809) in which Sweden lost its eastern territories;

these would become incorporated

into the Russian Empire as the

Grand Duchy of Finland.