House Where He Died

Amazing winter weather. Sunny, dazzingly bright. Only around - 2, but very cold wind.

It was a day of the car ride.
This time to northeast, Tuusula municipality, about 30 km from us. There is a long lake called Tuusulanjärvi. It is a nationally significant destination of the era of national romanticism and part of the Finnish soul landscape, and it has been immortalized in numerous works of art painted by the artists who lived on its shores. Today, the lake is a popular tourist destination for both domestic and foreign tourists.

We drove along the lake shore road. There is e.g. the house (Main picture) where one the most respected Finnish author, Aleksis Kivi, lived only for few months. This was the home of his brother's who took care of him, when he got seriously ill, until he died there.

Wikipedia tells: "Aleksis Kivi (1834 – 1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers") in 1870. Aleksis Kivi  lived in Fanjunkars farm, a military farm in Siuntio, between 1864 and 1871. Kivi wrote a considerable part of his production in there. Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish, he is still considered one of the greatest. Kivi is regarded as a national writer of Finland and his birthday, 10 October, is celebrated as Finnish Literature Day."

This house In Tuusula is open only in summer and early autumn, but it was very nice to see it in wintery coat as we haven't seen it before. I may have been inside of it in the past very long time ago in the school's spring trip as a teenager, but I don't remember it for sure any longer. When driving along the shore we could see  the skiers on the snowy ice on the lake (Extra). Lovely.

Nice day again.