Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country. He is the author of Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg.
Kreutzwald reading a manuscript of Kalevipoeg by Johann Köler (1864).
Kreuzwald Memorial in Võru by Amandus Adamson (1926).
Bust of Kreutzwald by August Weizenberg, 1881
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Kalevipoeg is a 19th-century epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald which has since been considered the Estonian national epic.
The 1935 edition of Kalevipoeg, cover illustration by Kristjan Raud)
Kalevipoeg in the Netherworld. Oskar Kallis, 1915.
Kalev arrives on the eagle. Oskar Kallis, 1917.