Alexander I and The Porvoo diet 1809

The House of the Estates, designed by Gustaf Nyström, was completed in 1890 to serve as a place of assembly for the three estates below the rank of nobility. On the Estates' initiative a competition was arranged to find a sculptor to carry out the tympanum group. The competition was won by young Emil Wikström's entry 'The development of the Finnish people through battle and work to the first Diet ...