Finland's Elias Lönnrot

The souvenir sheet issued in 2002 on this cover from Helsinki commemorates the 200th birth anniversary of Finnish polymath Elias Lönnrot. He is known for authoring the botanical text Flora Fennica in 1860 and Kalavela in 1835: a Finnish national epic featuring a collection of ballads and poems that helped shape Finnish national identity.  The stamp on the left from 2005 commemorates veterans of the Second World War.