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Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia’s greatest poet. His works, including *Eugene Onegin*, established a distinctly national literary style within Romanticism. He produced influential narrative poems and plays that shaped modern Russian literature. Pushkin's writing remains significant for schola...
Adam Mickiewicz was a Polish Romantic poet, author of Pan Tadeusz (1834), and widely regarded as Poland's national poet.
Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian Romantic poet and revolutionary whose 1848 poem Nemzeti dal became a rallying text of Hungary's national uprising.
Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet, author of Kordian (1834), and one of Poland's Three Bards with Mickiewicz and Krasiński.
Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect and planner, noted for Helsinki Central Station, completed in 1919, and later work in the United States.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter whose Kalevala subjects, including The Defence of the Sampo from 1896, became national icons.
