Alma Kuula was a Finnish operatic soprano and pianist, and the wife of composer Toivo Kuula.
Alma Kuula, with her husband Toivo, in 1916
The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. The clashes took
Alma Kuula
…his muse and inspiration for many of his other works. In 1918, Toivo Kuula was murdered by an unknown assailant at the victory celebrations of the Finnish Civil War in Vyborg. She never got over her loss, and dedicated the rest of her life to performing her late husband's music in his memory. In the 1930s she…
Tampere's civilian buildings destroyed during the Battle of Tampere
A demonstration at Helsinki Senate Square.
Russian soldiers in Helsinki. Prior to 1917, they sustained Finland's stability, after the February Revolution, the Russian troops became a source of social unrest.
Soldiers of the paramilitary White Guard in Leinola, a suburb of Tampere