

Eero – at 18 years old he is the youngest brother.Timo – twin-brother of Lauri simple and earnest.Lauri – the most solemn brother, friend of nature and a loner.Simeoni – alcoholic and the most religious brother.Tuomas – scrupulous, strong as a bull, although Juhani claims to be the strongest brother.The leader of the group and also the most stubborn. Juhani – at 25 years old the oldest brother.The coat of arms was approved for use by the Ministry of the Interior on April 14, 1954. Harald Hellström, and was approved by the Nurmijärvi Municipal Council at its meeting on December 18, 1953. The explanation of the coat of arms is “in the blue field, the heads of seven young golden-haired young men set 2+3+2.” The coat of arms was designed by Olof Eriksson in accordance with the idea proposed by B. The novel is referred to in the coat of arms of the Nurmijärvi municipality, the birthplace of Kivi. The heads of seven brothers in the coat of arms of Nurmijärvi In Eskelinen's opinion, Finnish-language prose works comparable to the richness and multilevelness of Kivi's work began to appear only in the next century. Eskelinen also highlights Kivi's linguistic play with genres: although the work uses a lot of biblical and otherwise religious language for understandable reasons due to the dominance of religious literature at the time, its attitude to religious authority is not submissive, unlike other prose literature of the time. According to Eskelinen, the work is more tense and aesthetically complex than the realistic novels of the significant generation of writers who followed Kivi. Literary scholar Markku Eskelinen considers Seitsemän veljestä to be very exceptional compared to his time of birth and the state of Finnish prose literature at that time.

Kivi regards the printing press as his poetic rectum." Foremost in this hostile backlash was the influential critic August Ahlqvist, who called the book a "ridiculous work and a blot on the name of Finnish literature" and wrote in review published in Finlands Allmänna Tidning that "the brothers' characters were nothing like calm, serious and laborious folk who toiled the Finnish lands." Another critic worth mentioning was the Fennoman politician Agathon Meurman, who, among other things, said the book was "a hellish lie about Finnish peasants" and stated that "Mr. The title characters were seen as crude caricatures of the nationalistic ideals of the time. The novel was particularly reviled by the literary circles of Kivi's time, who disliked the unflattering image of Finns it presented. The young and unruly seven brothers depicted in a 1970 postage stamp It was first time published in 1870, but the publication of actual novel did not appear until 1873, a year after the author's death. The work was largely created while Kivi lived in Siuntio's Fanjurkars with Charlotta Lönnqvist. Kivi began writing the work in the early 1860s and wrote it at least three times, but no manuscript has survived.

The deep significance of the work for Finnish culture has even been quoted internationally, and in a BBC article by Lizzie Enfield, for example, describes Kivi's Seitsemän veljestä as "the book that shaped a Nordic identity." Today, some people still regard it as the greatest Finnish novel ever written, and in time it has even gained the status of a "national novel of Finland". It is widely regarded as the first significant novel written in Finnish and by a Finnish-speaking author, and it is considered to be a real pioneer of Finnish realistic folklore. Seitsemän veljestä ( Finnish pronunciation: literally translated The Seven Brothers) is the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland.
