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50-529: Kivi began writing the work in the early 1860s and wrote it at least three times, but no manuscript has survived. The work was largely created while Kivi lived in Siuntio 's Fanjurkars with Charlotta Lönnqvist . It was first published in 1870 in four volumes, but the publication of a one-volume novel did not happen until 1873, a year after the author's death. Published in 1870 , Seitsemän veljestä ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most notable of whom

100-444: A population density of 25.61 inhabitants per square kilometre (66.3/sq mi). The municipality covers an area of 266.12 square kilometres (102.75 sq mi), of which 24.96 km (9.64 sq mi) is water. Siuntio is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 66% Finnish speakers, 26% Swedish speakers, and 8% speakers of other languages. Previously,

150-607: A cobblestone road, known as the Kabanov's road, which runs from Pickala to a Soviet triumphal arch , the only surviving Soviet Triumphal arch in Finland. The road was paved with cobblestone to make it strong enough for Soviet military vehicles to drive on. Pickala Manor House and its surroundings are listed as Nationally Significant Built Cultural Environment and protected by the Finnish Heritage Agency. The Tjusterby Manor House

200-483: A large esker covered in forest, while the southern part of Siuntio is less hilly but also covered in forests. Smaller and larger lakes can also be found in the southern and middle parts of Siuntio. The western parts of Siuntio have large flat areas of cultivated fields. Siuntio has also a few Natura 2000 nature protection areas such as the Plytberg Oak Forest, Torsgård's old forest, Meiko-Lappträsk lake area and

250-441: A nearby lord's herd of bulls and pay them back with wheat. Ten years of hard work clearing the forest for fields, hard drinking—and Simeoni's apocalyptic visions from delirium tremens —eventually lead them to mend their ways. They learn to read on their own and eventually return to Jukola. In the end, most of them become pillars of the community and family men. Still, the tone of the tale is not particularly moralistic. Symbolically,

300-547: A new school complex in the municipal centre after Aleksis Kiven koulu was demolished due to it sinking in the ground and its inner air problems. The new building complex, called Siuntion Sydän - Sjundeå Hjärta, was completed in 2022 and houses the communal library, and both schools. Siuntio does nothave any upper secondary schools and teenagers usually start attending school in Kirkkonummi, Lohja, Vihti or Helsinki after upper comprehensive school. The University of Helsinki had

350-578: A research farm in Siuntio at Suitia Manor until 2005. Akseli Gall%C3%A9n-Kallela Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala , the Finnish national epic . His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. Gallen-Kallela

400-553: A studio and house for his family at Tarvaspää , approximately 10 km northwest of the centre of Helsinki. The family moved back from Tarvaspää to Kalela in 1915 to escape the turmoil of the First World War . A few years later in 1918, Gallen-Kallela and his son Jorma took part in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War . When the regent, General Mannerheim , heard about that, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design

450-552: Is from 1382. The document addresses a donation to the Church of St. Lawrence in Lohja. During the Middle Ages two large manor houses, Suitia and Sjundby , were built in Siuntio. The earliest mention of Suitia Manor is from 1420 in a document addressing a border conflict between Suitia estate and an estate owned by the bailiff of Häme Castle . Later, the estate came to the possession of

500-619: The Académie Julian . In Paris he became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt , the Norwegian painter Carl Dørnberger , and the Swedish writer August Strindberg . During this period he traveled back and forth between Finland and Paris. He married Mary Slöör in 1890. The couple had three children: Impi Marjatta, Kirsti and Jorma . On their honeymoon to East Karelia , Gallen-Kallela started collecting material for his depictions of

550-530: The Finnish Heritage Agency . The Sjundby Manor House was built in the 1560s by Swedish king Gustav Vasa 's stall master Jakob Henriksson. The Adlercreutz family has owned Sjundby since the 18th century and tours inside the castle are arranged during summer. Sjundby was on the Soviet side of the border during the Soviet lease of Porkkala Naval Base . During this period, the house was badly damaged but

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600-502: The Kalevala . His works during this period is characterized by romantic paintings of the Kalevala , such as the Aino Myth , and by several landscape paintings, although by 1894 the influence of symbolism is heavily visible in his works. In December 1894, Gallen-Kallela moved to Berlin to oversee the joint exhibition of his works with the works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch . At

650-563: The Finnish Pavilion. In the fresco Ilmarinen Plowing the Field of Vipers there was a hidden political message: one of the vipers is wearing a small Romanov crown, telling of Gallen-Kallela's wish for an independent Finland at the time of the Russification of Finland . The Paris Exposition secured Gallen-Kallela's stature as the leading Finnish artist. In 1901 he was commissioned to paint

700-628: The Fleming family. Over time, the Flemings acquired new land for the Suitia estate; at one point, Suitia had its own harbor by the sea near the mouth of Pickala river. The Flemings also built the first ironworks in Finland , located on the grounds of Suitia Manor, in the 1530s. The Sjundby Manor House is first mentioned in a document from 1417. The manor was owned by a number of nobles and royals, including Queen Christina of Sweden . The stone St. Peter's Church

750-548: The Sampo , Lemminkäinen's Mother , Joukahainen 's Revenge and Kullervo 's Curse . In May 1895, Gallen and Mary visited London , with his intent being the purchase of a graphic art press. There, he also learned about stained glass . At the end of 1897 the family took a trip to Florence , also visiting Pompeii , where he studied the art of frescoes . For the Paris World Fair in 1900, Gallen-Kallela painted frescoes for

800-532: The St. Peter's Church. Sjundeå Idrottsförening is a sports club established in 1918 in Siuntio. The main sports they play are handball and athletics. The largest handball cup of Finland, Sjundeå Cup , is annually played in Siuntio. Christianity is the major religion in Siuntio. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is the largest religious organisation in Siuntio and it is divided into two parishes: The Finnish-speaking parish ( Siuntion suomalainen seurakunta ) and

850-528: The Swedish-speaking parish ( Sjundeå svenska församling ). Both parishes share the medieval stone church dedicated to St. Peter. Helsinki parish of the Finnish Orthodox Church is also active in Siuntio. The Church of St. Peter in Siuntio was built around the 1480s during Finland's Catholic time, and the church still has biblical paintings on its vaults from that era. The oldest objects inside

900-776: The United States, he began sketching out the Great Kalevala in much more detail. In May 1926, the family returned to Finland. In 1928 together with his son Jormam he painted the Kalevala frescoes at the lobby of the National Museum of Finland . Then in 1930 he made an agreement to paint a gigantic fresco for the bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki , but on 7 March 1931, while returning from a lecture in Copenhagen , he suddenly died of pneumonia in Stockholm . His studio and house at Tarvaspää

950-626: The area, including military orders written in Cyrillic script on the walls of the dairy house of the Sjundby Manor House and a Soviet Triumphal Arch near Pickala Manor House. In 2011 Siuntio, together with the municipalities of Karjalohja , Sammatti and Nummi-Pusula , decided to merge with the city of Lohja starting in 2013. The decision was made following encouragement from the Finnish State to merge smaller municipalities together. The goal

1000-411: The book was "a hellish lie about Finnish peasants " and stated that "Mr. Kivi regards the printing press as his poetic rectum ." Literary scholar Markku Eskelinen considers Seitsemän veljestä to be very exceptional compared to his time of birth and the state of Finnish prose literature at that time. According to Eskelinen, the work is more tense and aesthetically complex than the realistic novels of

1050-409: The brothers are required to learn to read before they can accept church confirmation and therefore official adulthood —and the right to marry—they decide to run away. Eventually they end up moving to distant Impivaara in the middle of relative wilderness, but their first efforts are shoddy—one Christmas Eve they end up burning down their sauna. The next spring they try again, but are forced to kill

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1100-514: The brothers represent the Finnish-speaking people and culture in the midst of external forces that force them to change. Seitsemän veljestä has been translated three times into English and 56 more times into 33 other languages. Many significant Finnish artists have been responsible for illustrating the book, including Akseli Gallén-Kallela (1908), Marcus Collin (1948), Matti Visanti (1950), and Erkki Tanttu (1961). The first English edition

1150-600: The church are also from the Middle Ages. The Suitia Manor House (Fin. Suitian kartano, Swe. Svidja slott) is a large stone-built manor house built in the 1540s. The walls of the two-storey building are over one meter thick for defensive reasons. The first floor was rebuilt at the beginning of the 1760s by Esbjörn Reuterholm. The state of Finland sold Suitia to a private owner for 11.7 million euros in 2015. Suitia, together with St. Peter's Church, are listed as Nationally Significant Built Cultural Environments and are protected by

1200-680: The city and the new direction art was being taken didn't feel as hospitable as he had hoped, and so in May 1909 they moved much further away to Nairobi in Kenya . He was the first Finnish artist to paint south of the Sahara , and produced over 150 expressionistic works. Although artistically the paintings are of fluctuating quality, their colors and the synergy of the colors are remarkable. They returned to Finland in February 1911. Between 1911 and 1913 he designed and built

1250-518: The coat of arms is: In a blue field, a horizontally positioned golden key, with a cross in the shaft and the handle designed as a quadrilateral, between two bars of silver which form wave-like patterns. After the decision to close and sell Päivärinne primary school in 2018, two schools remained in Siuntio: Finnish-speaking Aleksis Kiven koulu and Swedish-speaking Sjundeå svenska skola . In 2020 Siuntio started constructing

1300-560: The eventual publication of Great Kalevala , with the less decorative Koru-Kalevala being published first in 1922. In December 1923, he moved to the United States , where his family followed him in autumn 1924. He first spent time in Chicago , and an exhibition of his work toured several cities. In Chicago, he was impressed by Native American art and moved to Taos, New Mexico , at the art colony there to study it further. During his time in

1350-405: The first stage version of the novel in 1898 and Armas Launis composed the first Finnish comic opera based on the novel in 1913. The first film adaptation was made by Wilho Ilmari  [ fi ] in 1939. In 1989, a television series called Seitsemän veljestä  [ fi ] directed by Jouko Turkka caused wide controversy because of its portrayal of the brothers. The novel

1400-459: The flags, official decorations and uniforms for the newlyindependent Finland. For the flag , Gallen-Kallela proposed a white-blue cross flag, with colors inverted (white cross on blue), but it was considered too similar to the Swedish flag and particularly the era's Greek flag . In 1919, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Mannerheim. In 1920, he made an agreement with the publishing company WSOY for

1450-655: The fresco, Kullervo Sets Off for War , for the concert hall of the Helsinki Student's Union. Between 1901 and 1903 he painted the frescoes for the Jusélius Mausoleum in Pori , memorializing the 11-year-old daughter of the industrialist Fritz Arthur Jusélius . (The frescoes however were soon damaged by dampness, and were completely destroyed by fire in December 1931. Jusélius assigned the artist's son Jorma to repaint them from

1500-469: The local history and heritage of the municipality all the way from prehistory to modern-day independent Finland. Fanjunkars is a military croft and a museum in Siuntio. The croft housed the national author of Finland, Aleksis Kivi , between 1864 and 1871. Kivi wrote some of his most famous works in Fanjunkars in Siuntio, such as The Seven Brothers . The coat of arms of Siuntio is the heraldic symbol of

1550-469: The majority of the population spoke Swedish until the 1980s. Siuntio's motto is "Ota rauhallisesti - Ta det lugnt" , which means "take it easy" in Finnish and Swedish respectively. The municipality's rebranding program introduced the new motto along with a new logo in 2021. Siuntio has been inhabited since the Stone Age , with the oldest evidence of farming settlements discovered in the river valley around

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1600-404: The medieval Siuntio church. Many Bronze Age burial sites can also be found in Siuntio, such as Krejansberget hill and Luntoberget hill near St. Peter's Church . Some Iron Age sites, like Ekeberga Burial Site , are also found in the municipality. Apart from burial sites also a prehistoric hill fort, Skällberget , is found opposite to the church. The oldest known document mentioning Siuntio

1650-501: The municipality. It was designed by A. W. Rancken and approved by the Ministry of the Interior on 22nd April 1950. The subject of the coat of arms is a key between two wavy beams. The key symbolises St. Peter who is the patron saint of the medieval stone church of Siuntio. The colours of the coat of arms are similar to the coat of arms of Uusimaa region . The official heraldic explanation of

1700-463: The original sketches. The reconstruction was completed just before Jorma's death in 1939.) Gallen-Kallela officially finnicized his name to Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1907. His idea for a 700-page Great Kalevala  [ fi ] was fully formed in 1909 with a publication of his plan in the Valvoja magazine. In 1908 with renewal in mind, Gallen-Kallela and his family moved to Paris. However

1750-479: The richness and multilevelness of Kivi's work began to appear only in the next century. The novel is referred to in the coat of arms of the Nurmijärvi municipality , the birthplace of Kivi. The explanation of the coat of arms is “in the blue field, the heads of seven young golden-haired young men set 2+3+2.” The coat of arms was designed by Olof Eriksson in accordance with the idea proposed by B. Harald Hellström, and

1800-552: The riverbanks of Siuntio river. In 2019 there were 6,126 inhabitants in Siuntio and about half of them were living in the urban areas of Siuntio. The largest urban areas of Siuntio are the new municipal centre Siuntion asemanseutu ( lit.   ' Siuntio station area ' ) around the railway station and the old municipal centre Siuntion kirkonkylä ( lit.   ' Siuntio church village ' ) around Siuntio church. About 2,500 people were living around Siuntio railway station and, much less, about 350 people were living around

1850-446: The significant generation of writers who followed Kivi. Eskelinen also highlights Kivi's linguistic play with genres: although the work uses a lot of biblical and otherwise religious language for understandable reasons due to the dominance of religious literature at the time, its attitude to religious authority is not submissive, unlike other prose literature of the time. In Eskelinen's opinion, Finnish-language prose works comparable to

1900-453: The story. Siuntio Siuntio ( Finnish: [ˈsiu̯ntio] ; Swedish : Sjundeå ) is a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Southern Finland . Its neighboring municipalities are Ingå to the west, Kirkkonummi , to the east, Lohja to the north-west, and Vihti to the north. It is 46 kilometres (29 mi) west of Helsinki . As of 2021, the population was 6,180 with

1950-598: The time Gallen-Kallela also designed a grand cabin called Kalela for his family far from everything on the shore of Lake Ruovesi . It was built from dead standing pine by 13 local carpenters in a year from 1894 to 1895. In March 1895, his trip was ended when he received a telegram that his daughter Impi Marjatta had died from diphtheria , which would prove to be a turning point in his work. Hs works had been romantic, but after his daughter's death, Gallen-Kallela's works became more aggressive. From 1896 to 1899, he painted what are considered his most famous works: The Defense of

2000-578: The time. Foremost in this hostile backlash was the influential critic August Ahlqvist , who called the book a "ridiculous work and a blot on the name of Finnish literature" and wrote in a review published in Finlands Allmänna Tidning that "the brothers' characters were nothing like calm, serious and laborious folk who toiled the Finnish lands." Another critic worth mentioning was the Fennoman politician Agathon Meurman , who, among other things, said

2050-428: Was J. L. Runeberg , and created a solid basis for new Finnish authors like Minna Canth and Juhani Aho , who were, following Aleksis Kivi, the first authors to depict ordinary Finns in a realistic way. The novel was particularly reviled by the literary circles of Kivi's time, who disliked the unflattering image of Finns it presented. The title characters were seen as crude caricatures of the nationalistic ideals of

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2100-417: Was adapted into a children's picture book in 2002 with all the characters changed into dogs or birds, which was titled The Seven Dog Brothers: Being a Doggerel Version of The Seven Brothers, Aleksis Kivi's Classic Novel from 1870 . The book was credited to Mauri Kunnas , a Finnish children's author, and Tarja Kunnas. Mr. Clutterbuck from Goodnight, Mr. Clutterbuck , also by Mauri Kunnas, makes an appearance in

2150-536: Was approved by the Nurmijärvi Municipal Council at its meeting on December 18, 1953. The coat of arms was approved for use by the Ministry of the Interior on April 14, 1954. At first, the brothers are not a particularly peaceful lot and end up quarreling with the local constable , juryman, vicar , churchwarden , and teachers—not to mention their neighbours in the village of Toukola. No wonder young girls' mothers do not regard them as good suitors. When

2200-631: Was born Axel Waldemar Gallén in Pori , Finland, in a Swedish-speaking family. His father Peter Gallén worked as police chief and lawyer. Gallen-Kallela was raised in Tyrvää . At the age of 11 he was sent to Helsinki to study at a grammar school, because his father opposed his ambition to become a painter. After his father's death in 1879, Gallen-Kallela attended drawing classes at the Finnish Art Society (1881–1884) and studied privately under Adolf von Becker . In 1884 he moved to Paris , to study at

2250-766: Was built a few kilometers south of the church, which resulted in the creation of the new municipal center around the railway station. After the Second World War , parts of Southern Siuntio were leased to the Soviet Union as part of the Porkkala Naval Base for 50 years following the 1944 Moscow Armistice between Finland, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. Although the land was returned to Finland in 1956, signs of Soviet occupation can still be found around

2300-431: Was built around 1480 on the site of previous wooden church buildings. The sacristy , the oldest part of the church, and armory were removed after the church caught fire in 1823. The National Author of Finland, Aleksis Kivi , lived in Siuntio in Fanjunkars croft from 1864 to 1871. The old municipality center around the church started to lose its significance after the coastal railway was built. The new railway station

2350-515: Was eventually restored. Writings in Cyrillic script instructing how Soviet soldiers should behave can still be seen on the walls of the Sjundby dairy house. Sjundby is listed as a Nationally Significant Built Cultural Environment and is protected by the Finnish Heritage Agency. The Pickala Manor House was on the Soviet side of the border during the leasing of Porkkala Naval Base. Near the manor house runs

2400-766: Was one of the oldest wooden manor houses in Siuntio. The house was located near the church in the Tjusterby hamlet. The Manor House was moved from Helsinki to Siuntio in the late 19th century. Tjusterby Manor was destroyed in a large fire in 2011. Gårdskulla Manor is one of the largest farms in Finland with about 680 hectares of land. The main building is from the 1850s. Gårdskulla has a large collection of agricultural artefacts shown in its private museum. Over 100 old tractors, some cars, tools and steam machines are shown there. Siuntio local history museum, located in Siuntio Church Village , hosts permanent exhibitions regarding

2450-594: Was to create larger administrative areas to eventually cut costs. However, the decision caused a conflict between the Siuntio political parties, which also divided the population. After several unclear negotiations, Siuntio failed to deliver any kind of answers and therefore was cut out of the merge with Lohja. In 2018 Siuntio joined the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority , securing good public transportation connections to Helsinki sub-region . The northern part of Siuntio has many high hills and

2500-632: Was translated by Alexander Matson and published in 1929 by Coward-McCann . Revised editions of Matson's translation were published in 1952 and 1973 by Tammi Publishers , with Irma Rantavaara conducting the third edition's revisions. A translation by Richard Impola was published in 1991 by the Finnish American Translators Association. Douglas Robinson translated the book in 2017 under the title The Brothers Seven for Zeta Books in Bucharest. The Finnish National Theatre produced

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