Aino Kallas (nee Krohn in 1878) was the daughter of Julius Krohn, an outstanding Finnish national figure, scientist and writer.

She married Estonian scholar, doctor of folklore and later a diplomat, Oskar Kallas (born in 1868). This international couple in particular stood out in the Estonian small community. The prominent writer Aino Kallas and her husband Oskar Kallas during one of the most variegated periods in Estonia’s colourful history, the first half of the 20th century: overcoming the pressure of the expansion of Tsarist Russia, the emergence and development of a civic state, the whirlwind of revolutions in 1905 and 1917, the victorious War of Independence and the consequent Republic of Estonia. Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь,   listen?; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to 1917 (although... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...

The romanticism of youth was reinforced by National Romanticism.

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Ayn Rand stated that her first name, 'Ayn' was an adaptation of the name of a Finnish writer. This may have been the Finnish-Estonian author Aino Kallas. Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905–March 6, 1982; first name pronounced (IPA) (rhymes with mine)), born Alissa Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ...

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