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Karelia, respublika (republic), far northwestern Russia. It is bordered to the north by Nenets, to the east by the White Sea, to the south by Lake Ladoga, and to the west by Finland. The capital is Petrozavodsk, on the western shore of Lake Onega. Karelia, Russia. Underlain by a part of the ancient rocks of the Baltic crystalline shield, the ...
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Literature Kalevala rune singers. Karelia is sometimes called "the songlands", as Karelian poems constitute most of the Karelo-Finnish epic Kalevala and many of Russian Bylinas were documented in Pudozh. The written literature of Karelia was formed at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Karelia: A Place of Memories and Utopias. Outi Fingerroos. Karelia is a vast inhabited area in northern Europe of historical significance to Finland,1 Russia, and Sweden. In Finnish historiography, Karelia has often been described as a borderland or battlefield lying between East and West, and as a focal point.
explaning Karelia’s lack of emergence as an independently voiced authority. Karelia represents a blend of influences and serves as a focal point of decisions made by authorities far away from Karelia. The resulting space in which Karelian discourse occupies is represented in Soviet literature reflecting veiled opinions of the authors.
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Sep 18, 2023 · The Kalevala is a piece of literature created by Elias Lönnrot based upon Finnish-Karelian mythology and oral folk poetry from the region of Karelia (a region to the south east of Finland, which now stretches over both Finnish Karelia and Russian Karelia).
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White Karelia (sometimes the Finnish or Karelian term "Viena Karelia", or in some English-language sources, "White Sea Karelia", is used) is the northern part of East Karelia and Olonets Karelia is the southern part. Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Tver Karelians. View of Lappeenranta, South Karelia.
Mar 12, 2024 · Published on March 12, 2024. Tectonic shifts in the cultural world occur slowly, and are difficult to observe in real time. Still, it’s now possible to conclude that the protracted “post-Soviet” period of Russian literature came to an end in about 2018 as books by millennial authors flooded the market. By 2022, when quantity began to give ...
