Monuments of book culture: The exhibition “Inspired World of Kalevala” opened in Petrozavodsk

On the international Day of Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala” on February 28, 2015 the National Library of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk) opened the stand exhibition “Inspired World of Kalevala” which introduces with some pages of biography and multifaceted work of the Finnish scientist and ethnographer Elias Lonnrot.

In addition, the exhibition presents unique editions of "Kalevala" in different years in different languages ​​from the collections of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, as well as prints of People's Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Karelia Myuda Mechev (plastic engraving technique) and the German painter and graphic artist Archibald Bayorat (technique of wood engraving).

The multimedia resource “Path by Lonnrot” created on the basis of the book “Travel of Elias Lonnrot: travel notes, diaries, letters 1828-1842” (Petrozavodsk, 1985), is the supplement to the exhibition “Inspired World of Kalevala”.

The resource consists of historical, toponymic, ethnographic units, as well as quotes from the book “Travelling of Elias Lonnrot” Widely represented folklore block with rune-singers and storytellers gallery containing bibliographic information, photos and audio samples of folklore of phonogram archive of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.