Aino Kallas

Aino Krohn was born on 2 August 1878 in Kiiskilä, near Vyborg, the daughter of the poet and scholar Julius Krohn; she made her debut at nineteen under the name Aino Suonio. In 1900 she married the Estonian Oskar Kallas, a linguist and later a diplomat, and lived in Saint Petersburg, in Tartu, where she took part in the Young Estonia group, and then in London from 1922 to 1934, when her husband represented Estonia there. Her diaries revealed her affair with Eino Leino. Exiled in Sweden during the war, she died in Helsinki on 9 November 1956.

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